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Property Taxes In New Jersey Are The Highest In The Nation.
Most people living in New Jersey know this already.
The Associated Press did a recent article on N.J. has highest property taxes in U.S.
N.J. has highest property taxes in U.S.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060810/ap_on_re_us/nj_property_taxes (broken link)
By TOM HESTER Jr., Associated Press Writer
MONTGOMERY, N.J. - Barbara Lehman has lived in this central New Jersey community for 30 years, but her time here is nearing an end.
She sent her children through Montgomery's well-regarded schools. And she enjoys the rolling landscape even as housing developments have spread across it in recent years.
But her property taxes have climbed 56 percent since 2000 to a knee-buckling $14,000 a year — a heavy load for a high school French teacher whose salary goes up only about 3 percent a year.
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Last edited by Yac; 09-04-2006 at 03:17 PM..
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It's so out of control, I ran into a friend the other day and she said her taxes are $16,000. Most people I know in NJ have taxes around 8,000/10,000 and I thought that was high. Her house is nothing special, two bedrooms and average lot size in Monmouth County.
It's a bloody shame to realize that we pay $3,500 for a three-bedroom, one bath ranch home on a 3/4 acre lot in a housing development here in PA for our services! What is your state doing so terribly wrong? YIKES!
Corrupt politicians need to be paid off the books...
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Originally Posted by ScrantonWilkesBarre
It's a bloody shame to realize that we pay $3,500 for a three-bedroom, one bath ranch home on a 3/4 acre lot in a housing development here in PA for our services! What is your state doing so terribly wrong? YIKES!
Corrupt politicians need to be paid off the books...
It's a bloody shame to realize that we pay $3,500 for a three-bedroom, one bath ranch home on a 3/4 acre lot in a housing development here in PA for our services! What is your state doing so terribly wrong? YIKES!
Just about everything apparently.
I pay $6500 in Howell NJ, but that doesn't include sewers or garbage pickup, which I have to pay for independently. If you add them in, it's more like $7500.
I pay $6500 in Howell NJ, but that doesn't include sewers or garbage pickup, which I have to pay for independently. If you add them in, it's more like $7500.
What about sewer and water bills?
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