Considering relocating to Texas

383Duster said

property taxes here are outrageous…and everyone here that has been here a few years would agree with me

so you missed this in the article you linked ?

Texas has one of the highest average property tax rates in the country, with only thirteen states levying higher property taxes.

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I did see that but it was the 42% I was referring to, not sure where @MOPAROFFICIAL got that number maybe he meant 4.2% which is still higher than what that site shows.

@HSDemon thanks for the detailed explanation showing the whole picture. Can't say I'll be looking to buy a house until a year or 2 after I move. Iirc the small and nice but 70-year-old house I'm currently renting on a <1 acre lot is worth like $350k for some perspective. You can't find any decent house for sale in any decent location on the Front Range for less than half a million, no thanks! I'll take higher property taxes if it means I can actually afford to buy a home in the first place.

Btw before the fed raised interest rates people were competing so much for properties in Colorado that most houses in the $500k-1mil range were selling for $50k OVER asking price... and you had a matter of days to make a decision or someone else would grab it up. Ridiculous.