Austin Liberal Whinging About High Taxes.

[SIG_Fiend]

There's no escaping it IMO. I have a friend in GT who's in the same boat. Williamson taxes ^^^ 2 years in a row. We protested. The three member board voted to dismiss. TOTAL waste of time. Totally fixed in the city/county's favor. WE had comps.

Interesting. I missed the deadline to protest this year unfortunately but, my taxes in Williamson just went about by ~17-20%, which is ridiculous.

 

[Davetex]

I may move back to the family farm... That means I'll have to raise chickens

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Regular chickens or some kind of suped up android fighting chickens?

 

[jrbfishn]

Polynesian chickens, with hats


from a non-recovering coffeeholic

 

[cbigclarke]

You guys are silly

Fighting cock chickens...with hats and boots

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[Jakashh]

Thanks, gents for the suggestions, but, nope, ain't happening!

If I am going to go through the expense and hassle of packing everything up I am not going to move just a few miles. I am moving to the mountains.

How about, sell, make a nice profit and move to (insert here*) instead?

*Bozeman, Missoula, West Yellowstone, Idaho Falls, Ogden, or any of the nearby smaller towns

Nice to see I'm not the only one who wouldn't mind moving to the mountains lol.

 

[cbigclarke]

Gee... A Paki living in the mountains. Who would have guessed

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[Jakashh]

Gee... A Paki living in the mountains. Who would have guessed

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Why don't you come to my cave and say that to my face?

 

[cbigclarke]

Will your sister be there?

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[Sapper740]

Did nobody point out that she IS the big picture? Wants everything, right up until the bill shows up.

That's it in a nutshell.

 

[Anger]

Interesting. I missed the deadline to protest this year unfortunately but, my taxes in Williamson just went about by ~17-20%, which is ridiculous.

you might as well poke your eyes out. at least that way you can actually claim you did something. Protesting to the rigged 3 person board is counter productive. It's in their best interest to "deny" no matter how good your comps are.

 

[Sapper740]

Well, I get that. I'm actually from Montana, just happen to be living in Bastrop.

You can't beat Whitefish, Montana. A little slice of Heaven

Every year we'd go hunting in the Flathead Valley which is right on the B.C. - Montana border in Canada and we always took a trip to Polebridge and C Falls for a few beers and to say "Howdy" to the barkeep there. It got so he knew we were coming every year and would stock up on our favorite beer. Love Montana!

 

[popo22]

That's almost funny, all the yuppies, "out of towner's" buy up the poor peoples homes on the "east side" & "south side" of Austin, forcing the taxes up to where all the older "fixed income" families can't afford their retirement homes. Now the taxes are becoming too much for them and they start crying "injustice"! Gentrification at its best and the city just keeps profiting while the lower/middle class just keep losing. Karma.

 

[SIG_Fiend]

you might as well poke your eyes out. at least that way you can actually claim you did something. Protesting to the rigged 3 person board is counter productive. It's in their best interest to "deny" no matter how good your comps are.

Well, I have an appraisal and the measured livable square footage is roughly 100sqft less than what's on CAD records, so that should be kind of irrefutable to get them to come down at least a bit.

 

[breakingcontact]

Heard on radio this morning how downtown commercial property is being undervalued for tax purposes by millions.

 

[Anger]

Well, I have an appraisal and the measured livable square footage is roughly 100sqft less than what's on CAD records, so that should be kind of irrefutable to get them to come down at least a bit.

let me know how it goes. you said you missed this year, right? so let me know next year. definitely curious.

 

[1slow01Z71]

While not Williamson county, my parents use a service in Harris county to dispute their taxes. Someone goes to bat for you and you don't pay unless they get your taxes lowered. Fortunately down here in Hays I have not had to deal with that yet which seems odd. My first two years were protected by what I bought the house for which admittedly was a damn good deal and the house is probably worth 20% more than we paid for it but our taxes for now the third year we've been here did not go up. I cant imagine Williamson going up due to a liberal mindset so is it just greed by the county and cities?

A lot of the problems in Austin are rooted in all the retarded programs they've done but Im not aware of any 12 million dollar boardwalks on the water or billion dollar rail systems up there.

 

[breakingcontact]

Parts of Williamson county are high depending on the city. Georgetown rates are lower than Cedar Park for instance.

 

[Anger]

While not Williamson county, my parents use a service in Harris county to dispute their taxes. Someone goes to bat for you and you don't pay unless they get your taxes lowered. Fortunately down here in Hays I have not had to deal with that yet which seems odd. My first two years were protected by what I bought the house for which admittedly was a damn good deal and the house is probably worth 20% more than we paid for it but our taxes for now the third year we've been here did not go up. I cant imagine Williamson going up due to a liberal mindset so is it just greed by the county and cities?

A lot of the problems in Austin are rooted in all the retarded programs they've done but Im not aware of any 12 million dollar boardwalks on the water or billion dollar rail systems up there.

"my parents use a service in Harris county to dispute their taxes." I've heard aout that. maybe it was you who told me ?!? someone told me about it within the last 2 months. IMO the Williamson county lib population is growing with the influx from Cali, Mass, NY, Ausin (lol) etc etc.

 

[Vaquero]

Dell.

 

[breakingcontact]

Dell.

That joint has turned into a joke. Ive had probably 20 recruiters call me for positions there. No thanks. Rolling annual 10% layoffs? Hell of a staffing model!