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Before my dad passed, he bought some vacant property.  About 32 acres of wooded land, mixed with swampy areas and completely undeveloped.  He paid about $200K for it.  He paid money down, and the monthly payments were under $1,000. 

Over the years, the county had slightly raised the valuation every year.  Sometimes as little as $10K, sometimes a little more.  From about 2020-2024 they had raised the value up to something like 1.2 million.  The yearly tax bill went from a few thousand, to over $16,000 per year, just in taxes on land that is completely undeveloped.  I protested on behalf of my mom, and I was able to get the valuation back down close to the original amount.  Now the taxes are about $4K per year.  Still too high, but much better.  I will protest again this year as well. 

You should protest your county property tax assessment every year. I do, on all of my properties.  Usually I "win", sometimes I don't, but over the past 20 years I'm way ahead.

You should protest your county property tax assessment every year. I do, on all of my properties.  Usually I "win", sometimes I don't, but over the past 20 years I'm way ahead.

Absolutely we do.  I mentioned this one because I protested for my mom, and got it lowered (the assessment) by $800,000 or something.  It was completely ridiculous, and quite frankly the county was raping us on this one.  

Absolutely we do.  I mentioned this one because I protested for my mom, and got it lowered (the assessment) by $800,000 or something.  It was completely ridiculous, and quite frankly the county was raping us on this one. 

Yeah that's completely ridiculous, and incredible abuse by the county tax assessor's office.  I might look further into it and see just how shady they are, maybe get a TV station's news team to look into it.  That doesn't sound right at all.

How many properties you got?

A few.  Our main residence, and some rental properties.

Nobody is actually from Florida. Except

You should protest your county property tax assessment every year. I do, on all of my properties.  Usually I "win", sometimes I don't, but over the past 20 years I'm way ahead.

Is this just for acreage or for regular old city lots/houses too?  

I gotta learn more about this.  

always protest your tax assessment.  It always helps when their property card is wrong, inaccurate Sq footage,  state that I had 3 fireplaces.
I won my appeal last year, what was interesting (my experience) they really don't want to have to hold an actual hearing/meeting (which is what Indiana law prescribes).

they send out their 'guy' to handle/mediate with the taxpayer and basically cut the deal and end the matter.    actually turned out to be a very efficient process.   follow the procedure (to a 'T') or you'll get bounced, and it basically was one phone call, and email exchange of data, and a couple pictures, and we were done.

I don't know how our property taxes are allocated.  I do know that the state of Texas takes a portion of its revenue from property taxes.

Not sure if you’re referring to the business taxes or whatever else they tax ( you’d think I know this well as a business owner…but I don’t) but I’m almost positive all the property tax money for residential goes to local entities only. When I get back to my pc I’ll look up the local appraisal district and it will list all the taxing jurisdictions.