Posts with tag property taxes

When is your swimming pool not actually your swimming pool? When it becomes the centerpiece of a confusing tax bill dispute between a homeowner and a city. Sarita Murray, a Baltimore homeowner, says she's the victim of city workers who are unwilling to admit they made a mistake. The city says she failed to pay a property... Continue Reading »

Hoang Uyen Nguyen is currently living rent-free in a relative's Eagan, Minn. home, but this 30-year-old TV advertising traffic professional really would like to buy a place of her own. However, high property taxes cause her pause. "I definitely want to purchase a home where I could afford the property taxes," she tells AOL... Continue Reading »

With home values nosediving in many areas of the country, why are so many markets facing huge surges in property taxes? Charles Hughes Smith at our sister site, DailyFinance, takes an in-depth look at this seemingly backward phenomenon and explains why this paradox is unsustainable in today's housing market. Common sense... Continue Reading »

U.S. home sales are sagging -- but not with Australians, mate. "For the cost of a new car in Australia, you could own a home in the U.S.A," says Australian real estate agent Vincent Selleck (pictured left), who is on a campaign to recruit buyers from his country to invest in American homes that they can open up as... Continue Reading »

New York and New Jersey are the states with the highest-taxed counties, but upstate New York has it the worst. Counties in upstate New York put a proportionally higher tax burden on homeowners, despite lower home values there, so their tax rates are effectively higher, reports the nonpartisan tax research group The Tax... Continue Reading »