Awesome, thanks man. The company is Countrywide. Apparently they need IT people.

 

I heard they are a good company to work for, they are the biggest mortage lenders in the US...I have friends workign there, and I need to submit my resume also

 

If you wait much longer, it might be "Lake Plano" with all this fuggin rain we're getting. Do you know where in Plano the office is located?

 

You need to appeal that increase in your apprasial. I pretty much fight mine every year (and do it in person/NOT mail-in) and last year I got them to drop it almost $8k in value. Concerning state taxes, all state governments "get theirs" somehow so you know you are paying for it but just in some other way.

And Dridge, I hear ya about this rain. It's been a crazy rainy spring. Last night on the weather they said we past the total rainfall for last year through just April this year.

 

haha...that's so true...everywhere else in the metroplex is like that though.

 

I am not sure really. I still have to get the details. I heard that they opened a big office in Richardson, Tx. They also have an office at 7105 Corporate Drive in Plano (that seems to be where all the IT jobs are listed.) They also look like they have an office in Ft Worth.

Could be any of those 3.

 

you texans better stop complainign about the rain, your state needs it....

 

Can't you just work the estimated taxes into escrow and pay for it in your monthly payments? Or you could do that on your own even, estimate it and set that aside each month, considering it part of "housing expense". The houses there are so cheap for what you can get that adding a few hundred extra dollars into your mortgage payment wouldn't be that bad. Sucks here near DC... houses are big$ and the county gov'ts have realized that and feel they deserve a nice big cut so there are no breaks anywhere, prices, taxes, income tax, nothing...

My wife and I have often debated selling our house here and using the profit to just buy a nice house in Texas or somewhere like that. It's good to know about the inflated real estate taxes!

 

At the rates I am seeing a "few" extra hundred dollars is close to $400-$500 a month. That is a lot on top of your mortage no matter how cheap the house is.

back in Phoenix, house tax was like $600 a year, ohhh how I miss those days.

 

Do you work in IT?

 

No doubt, that really is a killer tax considering the prices, I guess I was just going by the $165K/3.9K example ($325/month). I guess for a nice $400-500K house it would be significantly more expensive.

BTW, a great site for ROUGH estimates of real estate prices and stuff, including satellite photos of areas and even specific homes is:

www.zillow.com

 

No I work in private banking dealing with high net worth individuals

 

Thanks for the info. I was looking at Centry21's website. EST tax on a $175,000 house was $4600

 

Very cool

 

having just purchased a home, $230,000, taxes are $4750/year. this is in the city of irving, dallas county.