My wife and I are in the process of purchasing our first old house. We are still negotiating the price, but have a mile long list of things that need (and a lot of wants) to get done. The house has had all the electrical, copper piping and heating stolen. There is a sunken corner in the back living room we need to address as well as sagging kitchen ceiling.
We have hit one snag that may hold us up from getting the house of our dreams and that is the property taxes.... The house taxes were originally listed as $3600 for 2200sqft, but some other real estate sites are showing $9600 for 3300sqft... possibly due to reassessment. Our realtor is verifying what the actual tax is before we proceed any further.
Has anyone ever had to deal with this? This may be a deal breaker for us as that annual tax amount is just too high.
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This is the house we hope to eventually own: