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Old 07-01-2011, 02:27 PM
 
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Depends what you are into. FC has some beautiful parks. Most belong to private clubs and the clubs that are here are some of the best in the state. I love the FC Racket Club and FC Golf Club the best. An area with an average income as posted below will live very differently. Mt. Lebo is poverty in comparison. If you are making close to $200K a year, you probably are enjoying a luxury private club, not some public swimming pool.

Income Mt. Leb = $43,754
Fox Chapel = $182,000+
Mt. Lebanon is also way more urban than Fox Chapel and has tons of apartments on the market that bring down median income for the rest of the neighborhood. Does Fox Chapel even have any apartment buildings?

Also note the population difference... Mt. Lebanon has over six times the population of Fox Chapel in a smaller land area. Basically, this is like comparing apples to oranges. Fox Chapel and Sewickley Heights would make for a better comparison. They are both very rural suburbs.
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Old 07-02-2011, 08:37 AM
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Also note the population difference... Mt. Lebanon has over six times the population of Fox Chapel in a smaller land area. Basically, this is like comparing apples to oranges. Fox Chapel and Sewickley Heights would make for a better comparison. They are both very rural suburbs.
True. I think Sewickley Heights is fantastic and they have a nice downtown to enjoy. In many ways it is nicer than Fox Chapel IMHO, but FC has a little better school and faster to get to the East End and downtown.
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Old 07-10-2011, 10:54 PM
 
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Depends what you are into. FC has some beautiful parks. Most belong to private clubs and the clubs that are here are some of the best in the state. I love the FC Racket Club and FC Golf Club the best. An area with an average income as posted below will live very differently. Mt. Lebo is poverty in comparison. If you are making close to $200K a year, you probably are enjoying a luxury private club, not some public swimming pool.

Income Mt. Leb = $43,754
Fox Chapel = $182,000+
The income for Mt. Lebanon was misquoted. Sorry, but it's wrong. Check the stats before you shoot off your mouth. The median income for a family was estimated at $98,731 in 2007. And, by the way, the Mt. Lebanon School District is way better than Fox Chapel. PSSA and SAT scores are consistently better at Mt. Lebanon...so are the overall services in general.
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Old 07-10-2011, 11:11 PM
 
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Default If you're just driving thru Mt. Lebanon, you're missing alot

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I didn't realize it was that high. Over $7k in taxes for a mediocre $200k house is just disgusting. I drive through Mt.Lebo everyday for work and it's nice, but not THAT nice. Someone would have to be nuts to pay those kinds of taxes. There are plenty of good school districts that don't cost so much, like Hempfield, Seneca Valley, Franklin Regional, Mars, Peters Twp, etc. Mt. Lebo can keep their walkable neighborhood and lame coffee shops. Apparently, being progressive is quite expensive. Imagine that.
There is way more to Mt. Lebanon than the drive down Washington and Cochran Roads. Having said that, you get what you pay for. Where are you coming from? Let me guess...somewhere out Rt. 19 from a vinyl sided house. I'll take a historic, stone tudor in a community that has a national reputation for excellence than where you live. Another guess...you have a plow in front of your pick-up for snowy days.
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Old 07-11-2011, 04:54 AM
 
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There is way more to Mt. Lebanon than the drive down Washington and Cochran Roads. Having said that, you get what you pay for. Where are you coming from? Let me guess...somewhere out Rt. 19 from a vinyl sided house. I'll take a historic, stone tudor in a community that has a national reputation for excellence than where you live. Another guess...you have a plow in front of your pick-up for snowy days.
You're not exactly a glowing advertisement for Mt. Lebanon.
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Old 07-11-2011, 05:29 AM
 
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I think Dormont has to have the highest taxes in Allegheny County. If you have a $100K home, you will pay $4K plus a year in taxes! I have never seen a tax that high! After seeing that, I will NEVER recommend Dormont as a place to live. That is just too much tax.

That's why I left, why pay that much for mediocre services at best.
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Old 07-11-2011, 09:35 AM
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That's why I left, why pay that much for mediocre services at best.
When I first saw that, I thought it was a misprint, so I posted it. Guess it is real. That is the highest I have ever seen. $200K property = $8K a year! There won't be much in the way of home appreciation in that area.
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Old 07-11-2011, 05:54 PM
 
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When I first saw that, I thought it was a misprint, so I posted it. Guess it is real. That is the highest I have ever seen. $200K property = $8K a year! There won't be much in the way of home appreciation in that area.
The killer is the boro millage, around 10, most twps/boros are in the 3-4 range. Must be some major graft going on. Where would you rather live, in a 200K house in Lebo or one in Dormont?
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Old 07-11-2011, 10:51 PM
 
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Re: Mt. Lebanon - More important than the millage is how your house is assessed, though! We saw a $300k house w/ $10k taxes, and (online) houses that were 2x as expensive with only $12k in taxes.

I'm pretty sure from my house hunting research that the people who set the assessed values live in Virginia Manor and or have houses for sale over the $500k mark. []
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Old 07-12-2011, 06:40 AM
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Re: Mt. Lebanon - More important than the millage is how your house is assessed, though! We saw a $300k house w/ $10k taxes, and (online) houses that were 2x as expensive with only $12k in taxes.

I'm pretty sure from my house hunting research that the people who set the assessed values live in Virginia Manor and or have houses for sale over the $500k mark. []
It is like that everywhere in our region. If a home sells they have proof of its worth in court if they want to reassess you. If it has been in the family for a few decades then it is harder to prove its value in court, so the assessment might be much lower than that recent home sale next door.

Things might level out if the Allegheny County reassessment happens. Of course they will be picking numbers out of the air since there were just a few people reassessing and most of them probably had no idea what the market is like in each neighborhood.
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