yeah we totally don't get this either. and real estate taxes in NJ just make it worse.
PA is ridiculous. Mikayla's sister lives in Pittsburgh and is in the same situation as your friends in Hazleton. ugggg. So cheap. Basically for the down payment on a house in NJ, you can buy a house outright. dude, that's what you guys should do. save up like $70k and just buy a place in PA! taxes would only be like $600 on a place like that.
You, my friend, are so right.
In Bergenfield (the town next to where we live now), one of the families in our hall with 5 kids and a house that takes up ALL their property told me that their property taxes are $15,000.00/yr. No lie, our rent is almost the same as their taxes. ($1310 x 12). Insane.
wow. there are places out by us too with insane taxes. like in Long Valley, it's not uncommon to hear of people paying $24,000 a year. i think at any point above $10k, i'd just say forget it and leave the state. not worth it!
Yeah, but in the end... you are living in PA... and thats a lose lose all around
when angela and i got married we qualified for medium income housing. basically they control the amount that the homeowner is allowed to sell the house for. Each year they can raise the price of they can sell the house for by a few percentage points. So the upside is that I bought a 2 bedroom condo for less than $130,000 when the same condo in the non rent controlled section were selling for close to $300,000. So if you and your wife have been making less than 70,000 combined (i think that's the amount) for the last 3 years you can qualify for it.
dude i make like 250k a year!!!! no way i could ever qualify to make it into that complex!!!! LOLOLOLOLOMG
well then screw you! go live in your palace!!! lol
argh, missed it by $0.05!