Do you get a little frustrated with people who give commands for you to do something, but give you no idea of how to go about doing it?

All our state’s property tax records from each year are online if you just type in the address. Could that be a starting point perhaps?

I know I can FIND the numbers, but how do I know if they’re too high? Compared to what?

@Dutchess_III Perhaps look up a neighbors address with generally the same type house, property, cars and same economic situation? That’s all I would know to do, sorry.

I guess I could ask a friend of mine who is a Realtor to help. My town is kind of eclectic. You have crappy shacky houses right next to doctor’s beautiful homes. You did give me a starting point though, thanks.

Up here they go by local sales ,in the area and what those houses are selling for, and how they are comparable .

I’m looking for property taxes.

What I said is how they gage property tax at least up here.

Yeah, I have to find some comparable homes. Her home is brand new, but it’s in the nearest thing to an inner city we have here. The neighborhood is really poor.

As a software developer, yes, constantly. Also in other cases.

No one gives me commands. I don’t really remember, as an adult, ever receiving a command.

It might be that the city or county has recently raised taxes in that area. In our old county, property taxes increased dramatically because they put in a new development next door. The newer houses were poorly built on smaller lots, but the houses were appraised as if they were upper scale. We formed citizens groups, wrote letters, and attended county meetings, but in the end. nobody listened. In our case we were renting and the landlords were forced to raise the rent to deal with the taxes. Our best plan was to move and we did.

Real estate listings of comps do give property taxes in the listing details online. as others have suggested, you could look up comps for other local houses. Or you could speak to the clerk in the local municipality and ask how you might go about questioning it.

Good suggestions guys.

Comps in this town are hard. Across the street from me are two ratty rentals, but catty corner to me is a beautiful mansion.

Yes it gets on my nerves. If you ask them, they’ll just give you the death stare. As an intern in the health field, it happened way more often than anyone would like to admit. Half the time we were figuring out right from wrong by experimenting on people. Oops.

Exactly @Nuggetmunch .