Property taxes are crazy!

[Biloxiboy]

Why are property taxes so high in Texas!? As my wife and I look for a house in the San Antonio area we have found that most of the houses in our price range have an annual tax rate between $5000-7000!!! Compliments of the nice school districts... Which we would surely benefit from. However, this severely limits our buying power. Any suggestions? What are your experiences?

[Slew]

Welcome to Texas!!

[doghouse]

No state income tax would be my guess.

[kingranch]

No state income tax would be my guess.

this...
in missouri we had no prop tax but city and state income taxes kick you just as hard...

here in tx no city or state income tax

[flywise]

My wifes family lake house on LBJ jumped to 11,500 a year when grandma died.
Pure BS that property taxes can price you out of a property thats been paid for since about 1980

[RR 314]

Why are property taxes so high in Texas!? As my wife and I look for a house in the San Antonio area we have found that most of the houses in our price range have an annual tax rate between $5000-7000!!! Compliments of the nice school districts... Which we would surely benefit from. However, this severely limits our buying power. Any suggestions? What are your experiences?

I would LOVE to pay 5-7K in property taxes. High property taxes are not just for nice school districts--they pay for the trashy ones as well.

[expressfish]

this is part of the reason we moved out of bexar county.

[Biloxiboy]

I would LOVE to pay 5-7K in property taxes. High property taxes are not just for nice school districts--they pay for the trashy ones as well.

Sorry to hear that! I suppose the rule of 'keep it local' only applies in rural towns, if at all...

[Biloxiboy]

this is part of the reason we moved out of bexar county.

We're looking at New Braunfels and Boerne as well... what are schools and taxes like in these areas?

[Bily Lovec]

LOL

my total tax rate is 3.6%.... I wish it was $5k-7k....

[Biggs]

ISD taxes tick me off more than anything

[hgiles]

We're looking at New Braunfels and Boerne as well... what are schools and taxes like in these areas?

NB has excellent schools. That's the primary reason we moved there.

[Ironman]

You don't own property in Texas, you just rent it. Even when it's paid off.

Like a lot of people here, I wish mine were only 5-7 thousand.

[Black Ice]

They will get you somehow.

[ladrones]

Administrators gotta get paid.