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Any trusted groups that people use that fight the appraisal that don't come with contract language that states "will automatically do this in perpetuity unless you remember to cancel with us the next year?"

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On 4/1/2025 at 10:57 AM, vtaenz said:

Any trusted groups that people use that fight the appraisal that don't come with contract language that states "will automatically do this in perpetuity unless you remember to cancel with us the next year?"

Why would you want to cancel?

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3 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said:

WCAD says my home increased in value by 37% this past year.  What a great investment!  So proud.  Fuck those guys.

With these interest rates?????  That is truly a no lube buttfucking. That may even qualify for you wearing a ball gag during the raping.

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WCAD - 11% increase YoY. Even with that, it came out under what we paid for it a little over a year ago. Considering the market difference between then and now, I'd say it is pretty close, or slightly under, what it would actually sell for. So I am not going to complain.

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17 hours ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

Why would you want to cancel?

I want the option (or task I guess) to have to renew with those services each year rather than be charged automatically. I want a one time thing. If they do good work, I'll use them again. The way they "subscribe" you kind of sucks, and it's a bit of an effort to get out of it.

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What is the property tax rate in Travis and Williamson counties?

I had a house in NW Austin back in the early 2000s, and don’t remember the property tax every increasing.

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17 minutes ago, Superhero said:

What is the property tax rate in Travis and Williamson counties?

I had a house in NW Austin back in the early 2000s, and don’t remember the property tax every increasing.

2.3% and some change because over the last 10 years "we" agreed to  approve some school, and make the bike lane take up a whole lane to be safe for the cyclist, but reduce the capacity of the road by 50% improvement bonds* 

 

and a reminder to everyone, even if you cant get the value down below the 10% year over year homestead increase, fight the damn valuation, because even a small reduction means that next year the fucking county has to try to increase from whatever you lowered it to and go from there. 

i might not save you money this year, but it could save future money next year or the year after. 

 

*ftr, i fully supported the school bonds,  but the "safety" bonds that got approved to redo the roadways and add a bike lane or bus lane to a road by fucking up the car flow is infuriating. 

They are just now starting on Burnet to add a special bus/bike lane by removing the suicide turn lane and put hard barriers in the middle of the road to keep anyone from turning left.

 

ive also previously shown pictures where the city took an entire right hand turn lane away from where Ohlen meets up with Research, made it a bike lane, and in the process, completely fucked the traffic flow from the parents picking up kids from the school near Ohlen.   instead of multiple people being able to take a right hand turn onto research if traffic allows, the number of cars that can take the right hand turn ends the moment a person is in the right lane but needing to cross under 183 (and 90% of the time turn into target on the other side)

the fucking cars in line trying to take a right backs up the road 2 entire fucking blocks.  and because they narrowed the road, even the folks going left or middle lane cant do so until the right hand lane traffic moves on a green light. 

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It would be great if the CAD/state/taxing entity was compelled to pay 95% of appraised value to purchase your property at the homeowners choosing.  If the appraised value was accurate, they’d break even after paying 5% realtor fees to sell it to an actual buyer.

CAD figured it out….

They’d rather than have us flail at appeals when talking to functional morons at the hearing.  And they’ll just say “no”

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41 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said:

2.3% and some change because over the last 10 years "we" agreed to  approve some school, and make the bike lane take up a whole lane to be safe for the cyclist, but reduce the capacity of the road by 50% improvement bonds* 

 

and a reminder to everyone, even if you cant get the value down below the 10% year over year homestead increase, fight the damn valuation, because even a small reduction means that next year the fucking county has to try to increase from whatever you lowered it to and go from there. 

i might not save you money this year, but it could save future money next year or the year after. 

 

*ftr, i fully supported the school bonds,  but the "safety" bonds that got approved to redo the roadways and add a bike lane or bus lane to a road by fucking up the car flow is infuriating. 

They are just now starting on Burnet to add a special bus/bike lane by removing the suicide turn lane and put hard barriers in the middle of the road to keep anyone from turning left.

 

ive also previously shown pictures where the city took an entire right hand turn lane away from where Ohlen meets up with Research, made it a bike lane, and in the process, completely fucked the traffic flow from the parents picking up kids from the school near Ohlen.   instead of multiple people being able to take a right hand turn onto research if traffic allows, the number of cars that can take the right hand turn ends the moment a person is in the right lane but needing to cross under 183 (and 90% of the time turn into target on the other side)

the fucking cars in line trying to take a right backs up the road 2 entire fucking blocks.  and because they narrowed the road, even the folks going left or middle lane cant do so until the right hand lane traffic moves on a green light. 

The best is right next to that where Burrell meets Ohlen.

there used to be plenty of room for two cars to fit so someone turning right off Burrell on Ohlen didn’t have to wait behind someone turning left:

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now, they squeezed the sidewalks making that impossible… and an exponentially longer wait to turn right when someone is in front of you trying to turn left because the cross traffic is abysmal….because of the bike lines on Ohlen

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I absolutely detest this city’s roadway planning.

 

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If you live in Austin and Travis co your tax rate last yr was just under 2%, right around 1.98%. The yr before it bottomed out at 1.81%. I would expect the rate to jump this yr as tcad has warned the isd’s that the tax rolls are expected to decline approx 10% yoy which means the rate will have room to run. 

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5 hours ago, vtaenz said:

I want the option (or task I guess) to have to renew with those services each year rather than be charged automatically. I want a one time thing. If they do good work, I'll use them again. The way they "subscribe" you kind of sucks, and it's a bit of an effort to get out of it.

Makes sense. I used one of these services last year in Comal and was happy with it so I’m letting them renew me this year. Was just making sure I wasn’t missing something about cancelling.

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14 hours ago, Orange&White said:

WCAD - 11% increase YoY. Even with that, it came out under what we paid for it a little over a year ago. Considering the market difference between then and now, I'd say it is pretty close, or slightly under, what it would actually sell for. So I am not going to complain.

Same..funny how that works out..

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