calmer now
Thanks to all the great info here on DR1, I realized that I have a great deal here where I am since the landlady cannot now raise the rent without a huge big thing, since I have been here over two years and always paid on time.
So as long as I can get the neighbor upstairs to fix the pipes, I will just settle in. The only places that really tempt me are so much more than I am paying now!! And I am just looking in my very little neighborhood.
One of the realtors that I called has turned a bit psycho, calling my cell 6 times a day, so perhaps they are catching on to the reality of how little money there is chasing too many apartments.
But since the RE taxes are low here and maintenance is cheap and almost all these apartments are bought with 100% cash, the owners can afford to sit on them til they get their prices.
I remember back in NYC in the 70s when we had strict rent control, owners were walking away from 30,000 units a year. But then NYC has real real estate taxes. Of course, if this country actually started collecting real estate taxes, then things would be different.
No place under 148k pays annual RE taxes, according to DR1.
What are the taxes after that and does ANYONE pay them?
Thanks to all the great info here on DR1, I realized that I have a great deal here where I am since the landlady cannot now raise the rent without a huge big thing, since I have been here over two years and always paid on time.
So as long as I can get the neighbor upstairs to fix the pipes, I will just settle in. The only places that really tempt me are so much more than I am paying now!! And I am just looking in my very little neighborhood.
One of the realtors that I called has turned a bit psycho, calling my cell 6 times a day, so perhaps they are catching on to the reality of how little money there is chasing too many apartments.
But since the RE taxes are low here and maintenance is cheap and almost all these apartments are bought with 100% cash, the owners can afford to sit on them til they get their prices.
I remember back in NYC in the 70s when we had strict rent control, owners were walking away from 30,000 units a year. But then NYC has real real estate taxes. Of course, if this country actually started collecting real estate taxes, then things would be different.
No place under 148k pays annual RE taxes, according to DR1.
What are the taxes after that and does ANYONE pay them?