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Originally Posted by eschaton
In my first home in Pittsburgh, until gentrification resulted in the house being reassessed in 2011, I paid almost nothing in property taxes, because the value of the house was barely over the homestead exemption.
As for heating - I always paid for that as a renter anyway. Are utilities more typically included in Upstate NY or something?
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Property/ village/ school taxes could run you 4-5k on a modest sub 100k home. That's pretty high and if you're on modest means as it is. I remember my gran freaking out every September and January when taxes were due.
Heating is typically only included if the utilities aren't separated; one family home broken out into two or three flats but still one furnace . Otherwise renter pays their own utilities. And oil is fairly common and $$$