I own a house in Chicago and my property taxes are much lower than my friends in the suburbs.
replyI live in a working-class southside neighborhood. The people who are complaining about property taxes for SFUs in the city are people in neighborhoods with skyrocketing home values.
Those people stand to receive a massive windfall when they sell. And while it may be annoying for them if they find themselves having to sell when they didn't want to, the they're vastly better off than all then renters in that neighborhood who got priced out much faster with no windfall.
Nah. I own a property in the gold coast area, and my property values have barely changed in the last 20 years. I only see an insane increase in real estate taxes and assessments. These are the things that price renters out, plus the Chicago housing regulations that leave the landlords without any leverage under pretty much any circumstances and force the risk to be reflected in the rent.
Currently net profit from rental properties in that area is close to the interest on the equivalent amount of 10y bonds, without all the headache.
replySo sell and buy 10 year bonds. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
replyThe Gold Cost isn't suffering a shortage of landlords.
Your Chicago government has way bigger problems than covering its promises to deliver elderly people the standard of life they earned.
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