Tax Appraisals
The significant jump in home prices in North Texas means a historic high value for your property if you’re selling. But for those not in the market to buy, it means that walk back from the mailbox while scanning the local appraisal district’s notification probably isn’t going to be much fun. An increase in value…
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Watchdog.org is a great site to read (and subscribe to) for nitty gritty (gritty) fiscal news. Doing a little search, back in 2011, Watchdog ran this headline: Pension reformers warn of looming breaking point, cite governments’ ‘actuarial bullshit’ That was when legislators in tiny Rhode island voted overwhelmingly to remove pension benefits from all its employees…
Read MoreThe first source cited in this report from Bloomberg Businessweek is Dallas Realtor Mary Beth Harrison, who has turned to poring over tax records to find homeowners who might be motivated to sell if they knew how much money they could make. “That’s how hot things are now,” Harrison said. I haven’t heard reports of…
Read MoreMay means great weather, less sneezing, and, in North Texas Real Estate parlance, time to grit our teeth over home appraisals. Property tax appraisals went out Friday, so this coming week we should be getting the hard, cold news about property taxes. Dallas rates have gone up. Property values have gone down. Will the Appraisal…
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