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Just tired of the insanity!
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 12:50 pm
by fortyshooter
My paid off home now cost me $358 bucks per month just for real estate tax and home insurance and to top it all can hardly afford to get a buzz with a 6 pack and Fritos!!!! That is 20 plus bucks you looking at right there! If the doctor told me I needed a procedure to live 5-10 more years I would say Hell No! Enjoyed the BEST of times and NOTHING coming will be better than what I had before!
Re: Just tired of the insanity!
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 1:02 pm
by brm4450
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Re: Just tired of the insanity!
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 1:27 pm
by Vaquero
I hear ya, bro. debt free here except for taxes, insurance, phone, utilities, gas and GROCERIES.
I don't know the exact figures, but do know the property taxes are like $660 a year.
Insurance, no clue, she writes the checks and don't ask...
RP
Re: Just tired of the insanity!
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 1:32 pm
by fortyshooter
Vaquero wrote: ↑Sun Jul 13, 2025 1:27 pm
I hear ya, bro. debt free here except for taxes, insurance, phone, utilities, gas and GROCERIES.
I don't know the exact figures, but do know the property taxes are like $660 a year.
Insurance, no clue, she writes the checks and don't ask...
RP
3155 to the little city per year to stay here and homeowners jumped up another 200 per year! Now why a bag of corn chips not much bigger than my hand is $5.89 is just beyond common sense!
Re: Just tired of the insanity!
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 1:51 pm
by bandit1250
Forty you are 100% right about the insanity. I hear people talk about how bad the 60's were and I would take the 60's any time over the time period we are in now. The 60's were my best years by far.
Re: Just tired of the insanity!
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 2:21 pm
by Cowboy Gun Fan
I got a new rule, any bag of chips more than $4, I just leave them on the shelf, lol.
I do catch some good sales here and there though.
Here out in the country in SW Virginia, taxes and insurance is still pretty low. I would say how much, but I don't want anyone cussing at me, lol.
That said, yes, Inflation is Insane.
Re: Just tired of the insanity!
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 2:30 pm
by rickhem
I feel your pain Forty, and while not a big chip eater, I'll munch the hell out of a bag of Dipsey Doodles on occasion.
I think you and I would get along just great!
Re: Just tired of the insanity!
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 3:44 pm
by daytime dave
But, on the bright side, your receipt shows you saved $1.40. Just saying....................
Yup. It always looked better as a young man, but it doesn't usually get better.
Re: Just tired of the insanity!
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 4:19 pm
by Coach
I’m at about $658 per month in property taxes.
For chips I usually get the BOGO deal.
A case of .357 is over a thousand dollars because of the 21% tax on all guns and ammo…
Re: Just tired of the insanity!
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 4:20 pm
by cooperhawk
Here in Taxing Timmie's land real estate is pretty high. I think ours is almost $3000.00 a year now, plus there is a state income tax and sales tax on almost everything.
Still, this is where the grand kids live, so here we will stay, (so says Grandma).
We are blessed however that everything is paid for and we can afford to do almost whatever we want. (At our age we don't do much though).
Still, life is good.
Re: Just tired of the insanity!
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 4:41 pm
by Mags
Our property tax is about 4000 a year with a timber deferral. It would be a lot higher without the deferral.
For perspective :
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Re: Just tired of the insanity!
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 4:45 pm
by Mags
fortyshooter wrote: ↑Sun Jul 13, 2025 1:32 pm
... Now why a bag of corn chips not much bigger than my hand is $5.89 is just beyond common sense!
Agree. Blame it on the eggs. The price of everything with eggs in it is crazy.
Re: Just tired of the insanity!
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 8:40 pm
by GFK
daytime dave wrote: ↑Sun Jul 13, 2025 3:44 pm
But, on the bright side, your receipt shows you saved $1.40. Just saying....................
Yup. It always looked better as a young man, but it doesn't usually get better.
That was my thought: one man's trash is another man's treasure. It is a reason why people are dying to get into this Country.
Re: Just tired of the insanity!
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 9:05 pm
by Sir Henry
I guess it’s all relative. I went from property taxes of $10K in Seattle to $2.4K here. Plus I pocketed a wad of cash. Of course that was back in 2021 and 2022. The taxes are now $12K and $3.2K. The higher taxes here are mainly due to the improvements I’ve made.
If I combine property taxes, income taxes and sale tax I’m paying about a third of what I was paying plus my income has nearly doubled.
The big downside here is I’m 20 miles from the nearest latte and it’s 220 miles to decent healthcare.
Re: Just tired of the insanity!
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 9:57 pm
by RanchRoper
This is why I spend my time in 1825.
Re: Just tired of the insanity!
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 7:50 am
by rickhem
I'm paying about $3250.00 for real estate taxes, but that includes an agricultural exemption since a local dairy farmer hays the fields, and I qualify for that exemption. There's also a school tax of about $3K, not sure if that is a part of what others posted.
That's a pretty stark difference from before 2013, when I lived in NJ, and was paying well over $12,000.00 per year for our little postage stamp sized lot.
Re: Just tired of the insanity!
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 8:07 am
by BigAl52
Sir Henry wrote: ↑Sun Jul 13, 2025 9:05 pm
I guess it’s all relative. I went from property taxes of $10K in Seattle to $2.4K here. Plus I pocketed a wad of cash. Of course that was back in 2021 and 2022. The taxes are now $12K and $3.2K. The higher taxes here are mainly due to the improvements I’ve made.
If I combine property taxes, income taxes and sale tax I’m paying about a third of what I was paying plus my income has nearly doubled.
The big downside here is I’m 20 miles from the nearest latte and it’s 220 miles to decent healthcare.
Brother in Law pays 16k a year in property taxes and 550 a month in house insurance. King County Covington Wash.
Re: Just tired of the insanity!
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 8:12 am
by BigAl52
I pay 4k a year right now for taxes and house insurance. But we have sales tax of 8 percent and state income tax.
Re: Just tired of the insanity!
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 8:32 am
by Sir Henry
BigAl52 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 14, 2025 8:07 am
Sir Henry wrote: ↑Sun Jul 13, 2025 9:05 pm
I guess it’s all relative. I went from property taxes of $10K in Seattle to $2.4K here. Plus I pocketed a wad of cash. Of course that was back in 2021 and 2022. The taxes are now $12K and $3.2K. The higher taxes here are mainly due to the improvements I’ve made.
If I combine property taxes, income taxes and sale tax I’m paying about a third of what I was paying plus my income has nearly doubled.
The big downside here is I’m 20 miles from the nearest latte and it’s 220 miles to decent healthcare.
Brother in Law pays 16k a year in property taxes and 550 a month in house insurance. King County Covington Wash.
That’s one of the richest areas in Seattle. I lived in Woodinville which was also up there. A quarter mile from where I lived was a development of $2M-5M houses or should I say mansions. I sold mine for $1.4M in 2021 and bought a place for $264K. With all the improvements I have about $385K into it.
Re: Just tired of the insanity!
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 12:39 pm
by Hatchdog
Over here on the cheap side of Washington State I pay “ONLY” $560 per month in taxes and insurance. I bought my first very little house in 1978 and my mortgage, taxes and insurance was around $250 a month as I recall. Add to this 9% sales tax but thankfully we have no state income tax.