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Originally Posted by majortom1981
You obviously have not looked . The sachem school district has low taxes. Basically from the sachem district east has low taxes.
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Many many people throughout Long Island forums are forever bringing up the unreasonable PROPERTY TAXES on Long Island at-large. I have a few ignorant questions for the informed ones amongst you (i.e., "ignorant" refers to
me,
not you; I never owned a home nor a condo, so I don't quite know the answers to what I'm going to ask you):
QUESTION # 1: If one lives as a RENTER in Long Island in
either a building legally classified as an "apartment building"
or else RENTING an apartment in a home legally classfied as a "multi-family home"
or else RENTING an apartment in a home that has been legally allowed to create a separate apartment unit within it, does that RENTER still pay property taxes to the town or county? Or instead, are property taxes paid
ONLY by those who OWN their housing (whether a single family home or a condo apartment)?
QUESTION # 2: In Long Island at-large, does
virtually every town government (or the entire county government, for that matter) outright and entirely
forbid homeowners to
either create a separate apartment within their home (with a separate entrance, kitchen and bathroom facilities, electric - gas- water hookups and meters, etc. for the separate apartment and with the separate apartment meeting all safety regulations)
or else to create an apartment out of a garage
or else to allow a separate bungalow or cottage or oither similar standalone unit to be built somewhere on their property (i.e., in their backyard) for someone to live in as a renter?
The point is, if I were to RENT rather than OWN, I would much rather live in a single apartment that is part of a (legal) two-family home or in an otherwise single-family home that has the legal permits to create a separate rental unit in the home (with separate entrance, utilities, etc.) or else the legal permit to have a cottage or bungalow or similar unit on its property that can be rented out to a renter . . .
rather than renting an apartment in some traditional multi-level, multiple-dwelling apartment building (with neighbors above you and below you and on all sides of you).
And, referring back to question # 1: And any RENTER renting their housing in such a housing unit as described in question # 2 would not pay any property taxes? (i.e., therefore, property taxes are only paid by home
OWNERS but not by
RENTERS?)
Please, my friends, could you provide informed, knowledgeable answers to these questions?