$1500 a year!?!?!??!!!

Wanna become really depressed? Instead of $$$ think of it in terms of how many guns you have to NOT buy each year. So sad... so sad...

$1500 a year and that was with a $300 surcharge for supporting Grady Hospital in south Atlanta a year.

 

Granted I paid $30 for trash a month.... and I had to bag my leaves. And I got less then stellar snow plowing...

My taxes right now are about $6800. My taxes were just over $8100 until I had them assessed again last year.

 

I pay for my own garbage and recycling. I have a well, so I don't pay for water or sewer.

The entire township's kids are bussed to school.

Fire/ ems are volunteer

I don't have grass or leaf p/u at all. There is a section where you can recycle trees up to 4 inches I think.

 

The town is primarily republican and is pretty good on P2P and FID's.

$2700.00 for two lots, 14 and 8 acres.

My taxes right now are about $6800. My taxes were just over $8100 until I had them assessed again last year.

 

I pay for my own garbage and recycling. I have a well, so I don't pay for water or sewer.

The entire township's kids are bussed to school.

Fire/ ems are volunteer

I don't have grass or leaf p/u at all. There is a section where you can recycle trees up to 4 inches I think.

 

The town is primarily republican and is pretty good on P2P and FID's.

 

Too bad you're kinda in the middle of nowhere

$1500 a year and that was with a $300 surcharge for supporting Grady Hospital in south Atlanta a year.

 

Granted I paid $30 for trash a month.... and I had to bag my leaves. And I got less then stellar snow plowing...

 

This is why people will eventually move out of NJ and the surrounding areas permanently. I really don't need a town library on top of a county library, a county sheriff (ahem - really the Paterson Auxiliary Police IMO) etc. There is an inordinate amount of duplication of services in this state - of which the only reason seems to be to either make work or line some politicians pockets.

 

We have two high schools in town, they're about 5 miles apart - of course we must have principals, vice principals, counselors, nurses, teachers etc double for the whole shooting match...

 

This crap needs to end and will be the impetus for the next revolution whether the state government wants to acknowledge it or not. Christie made a claim in the media (I'm no fan of his) that the Abbott districts get 70% of the money the state gives to schools - he was off by a little according to a report in one of the mainstream media state papers - they get 60%. There are 31 Abbott districts in the state. FYI, there are 590 "operating" school districts in NJ (source http://www.nj.gov/education/data/fact.htm) 5.25% of the school districts are receiving 60% of the money. We've dumped enough money down these rabbit holes and the only thing we keep getting is more rabbits. This shyt has to stop. 50 to 60% of your tax bill is JUST for education.

14.5k in Scotch Plains and include nothing. In addition taxes have gone up every year for the past 5 years by more than 600/year. I predict in 10 more years you will need to make 500k per year to live in this state....

wow... I need to get out of East Brunswick! The schools and services are great but I'm paying a little over 10 big ones a year (and we expect to pay more next yr) .

 

 

My father bought the house i grew up in for $15,000 back in the early 60's, by the time he sold it, He was paying over $7500 a year in Property taxes on a One-family house

I rent. I'll be damned if I ever own my own property in this terrible state. I'm trying to get out of here as it is...but it isn't looking promising.

I come in just under $7K, water and sewer separate. Garbage pickup once a week, leaves whenever they get to it, and they took grass pick up away last year. Yay government!

What about those out of state?

Modest 1100 Sq foot home here in Hamilton. We have a postage stamp lot size, trash picked up twice a week and no kids in school with a volunteer FD. I'm $5600, the big ticket item is the school taxes

Under $3,000, 1310 sq ft, 2br, 2 b, gar, 55x110 lot. Does not include Water & Sewers. HOF of $29.00mo. included driveway plowing, grass cutting, pool, tennis, billiards, etc.

 

Left Somerset County (SBB) 5 years ago, was over $5,000 for 900 sq ft, 2br, 1b, no gar, 70x120 lot including garbage & sewer.

i'm about $4400

About 1,700 sq ft. on a 50 X 105 lot in Hawthorne. Just crested $7K this year... up about $800 since I bought the place in Nov 2010. Not really too bad for the border of Bergen Cty/Glen Rock.

 

Garbage/recycling/leaves included once a week. (They don't do leaves from like Feb to March or something but I only have 2 small tress, so I don't pay attention.) Got some nice town amenities (town pool, park, dog run). But... I'll save my commentary on efficiency for when I get my FID (50+ days right now).

 

Update: Got my FID and 1 P2P today. 52 days. Pretty efficient. I expected much closer to year end, if not next year.

I rent. I'll be damned if I ever own my own property in this terrible state. ...

 

I concur with that much. Only thing keeping me here is a decent F/T job with bennies, but if something happens to my job I will be out of NJ as soon as I can pack.