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Property Tax Fear and Loathing

If you have read my other articles here, youwere actually expecting that your latest
might have noted the psychological approachproperty tax bill was going to be twice the
towards subject matter. Therefore, as youamount it was the previous year, because I
have probably guessed from the title, thiswon't  believe  you.
article on property tax is not going to be
any different. After all, the years spentHeaven knows, citizens have fought, and
earning degrees in neurobehavioral psychologycontinue to fight the good fight to try and
should  not  be  wasted.shield themselves from the experience, but
the results have been somewhat mixed.
Certainly, I could have chosen to write aboutCalifornia property owners did it with
property tax with a presentation of numerousproposition 13, Oregon tried something
facts, figures, rules and regulations, butsimilar, followed by other states, yet
then this is information you can easily findnothing stopped the upward trajectory, it was
for yourself. However, if facts and figureonly  slowed  and  then  only  for  a  while.
are what you are after then you can go to
properties-tax dot com to get them. Not thatNow, on the heels of the real estate boom,
we can guarantee that you won't find a singlesome states such as Florida, have actually
fact somewhere in this article, but mainlyhad their property taxes, sans a couple of
what we're going to be discussing is angst.dollars, double. Of course, the real estate
Specifically, that day certain annual angstboon has fizzled, property values have
experienced by property owners with thedeclined, and it seems that many property
arrival of the property tax bill that willowners were somehow expecting that those
tell them how much he/she must pay shoulddeclining values would be reflected in their
they desire to continue their relationshipproperty tax bill. In other words, they were
with the property. While it is true that someexpecting a 'good surprise', which made the
property owners miss-out on this intenseactual bill a much worse 'bad surprise'.
emotional experience, because their tax isWorse still, there is no on to argue with
included with the mortgage payment, do not beover it. Oh, I suppose one could argue it if
fooled. They are no less affected, it justthey really wanted to. They could file a
that their feelings about it are more or lessformal complaint, demand a hearing, look for
staggered  throughout  the  year.an attorney to mount a battle, and protest by
not paying their property tax bill, but that
In which case, what is it about that propertydoes present the inherent danger that by the
tax bill that makes the paying of ittime such a fight makes its way through the
different from let's say income tax or salessystem, the property in question will have
tax? Well, for starters, it is a bill, andbeen  auctioned  off.
it is one of the few bills we receive that
lacks for prior warning of how much is due onHowever, so as not to end this article on a
it. We are forewarned if sales taxes aresour note, consider that it is the property
going up, we know ahead of time if we aretaxes you pay that provide for services to
going to be paying more in income tax, not soyou and your community such as education,
with property tax. Simply, our mind doeslibraries, roads, hospitals and emergency
not have time to adjust to one of the thingsservices. Admittedly, while you may not be
it hates most, namely 'bad surprises'. Andin full agreement with exactly how the
don't even think that expecting theofficials are managing your money, hopefully,
possibility of 'bad news, is the same as ajust knowing that it is going towards good
'bad surprise'. While the expectation of baduse, will bring you some reprieve from the
news may make a person nervous it is simplyfear and loathing that might be generated by
not the same as the trauma generated by a badthe arrival of your next property tax bill.
surprise. So please don't tell me that you



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