One Caveman’s Financial Journey

Yesterday, I mentioned that we hired an appraiser to come and give us a full appraisal of our house for property tax purposes. When the appraisal came in much higher than expected - $15,000 over our purchase price 2 years ago - I wondered if we could benefit from this dramatic change.
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Wednesday morning, I went to the county courthouse to challenge my property tax assessment. (I talked more about receiving the notice from the county in a previous post.) When I arrived, 4 of my neighbors were already there! Apparently, they over-assessed our entire neighborhood. Hopefully that will give me some leverage [...]

Well, I just received the most enjoyable piece of mail today… My credit union sent out my new set of coupons for paying my mortgage for 2008 and, much to my bewilderment, the amount went up by almost $50 per month! That means my taxes for last year were more than $400 higher [...]