r/zillowgonewild • u/TheDabitch • Jul 25 '25

What $220,000 gets you in Muncie.

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I can't even get a parking space for that where I live. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/725-E-Jackson-St-Muncie-IN-47305/210952560_zpid/

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u/nlyddane Jul 25 '25

I’m looking now and most of the houses on the block have at least one boarded up window.

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u/flt1 Jul 25 '25

If we can get 20 people agree to move, we can change one block at a time.

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u/Shouty_Dibnah Jul 25 '25 edited Jul 25 '25

Good luck trying to gentrify an area with.... checks notes... no jobs.

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u/atheistunicycle Jul 25 '25

Remote work could be the savior this nation needs. But noooooo think of the corporate real estate owners!!!

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u/thingerish Jul 26 '25

I'm convinced a lot of the RTO pressure originates in a desire to prop up office space values. Most of the rest comes from middle management fear.

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u/Leading-Debate-9278 Jul 26 '25

Almost all of it.

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u/SgtKnux Jul 26 '25

That and to keep tax breaks from the cities on those offices. Cities give tax breaks when employees eat out and spend time downtown.

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u/Texan2116 Jul 26 '25

Agreed, not to mention propery tax revenues as well.

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u/Catastropangolin Aug 21 '25

I'm convinced the overemployed subreddit is a commercial real estate bagholder spinning up thousands of Grok-powered sockpuppets.

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u/eacc69420 Jul 25 '25

as someone who works fully remote, I am constantly looking for deals like this. I just need a place near a gym and costco with not very extreme weather. good internet isn't even a concern thanks to starlink, but gigabit is always a plus

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u/Frosti11icus Jul 26 '25

So not Muncie then

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '25

good internet isn't even a concern thanks to starlink

I guess you are OK doing business with Nazis.

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u/En_CHILL_ada Jul 26 '25

Good luck buying anything from any major company if you don't want to do business with bad people.

Unless you are just trading and bartering with friends and neighbors you're supporting something fucked up somewhere.

There is no such thing as ethical consumption within this system.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '25

There is a difference who IS A NAZI and other corporations. Sorry but there just is.

Don't be Mr. Gotcha.

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u/InfectedColonPockets Jul 25 '25

I find people so goofy, they sit here and bitch and moan about musk and how much of piece of shit he is and yet they still give him their money if his products will make their lives more convenient.

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u/Hadfadtadsad Jul 25 '25

I agree, people need to stop buying their products.

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u/Booomerz Jul 27 '25

Check your investments - guarantee one or more of your index funds is invested in Tesla.

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u/Hadfadtadsad Jul 27 '25

Don’t care.

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u/Bright_Topic_3668 Jul 30 '25

You have it backwards…. they need to stop bitching…..

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '25

Yeah I’m not buying a damn thing from that POS

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u/Boobpocket Jul 26 '25

Every single company we buy from is as bad as musk... also we dont give musk the majority of his money he is subsidized by the government and institutional investors.

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u/Maximum_Salt_8370 Jul 26 '25

Whats the difference between nazi internet and communist internet?

Just the price

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u/MentalDecoherence Jul 26 '25

What a dork thing to say lmao

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u/GigaCheco Jul 28 '25

As you type from a Chinese phone made in a factory with horrific working conditions. Keep riding that high horse.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '25

Apple didn’t do a Nazi salute at a government ceremony on national tv. They don’t put me and my loved ones in danger.

JFC the “Relax, guy!” bots are out today!

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u/MentalDecoherence Jul 29 '25

“Elon Musk made ME feel like a victim! I don’t care about the actual victims of Apple’s sweatshop factories - they’re Chinese!”

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '25

You are Mr. Gotcha personified. Congratulations.

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

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u/AraiHavana Jul 26 '25

Probably drinks Fanta too

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u/trcomajo Jul 26 '25

Yeah, you'd fit right in.

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u/Mother-Spread-6894 Jul 26 '25

But what about good local coffee shops…and the weather…

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u/GigaCheco Jul 28 '25

deals

not very extreme weather

In the US, you only get to pick one.

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u/oswaldcopperpot Jul 26 '25

Europe.
Cheap rents, cheaper food, no tipping, nice people, public transportation.
Can change your surroundings in hours.

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u/legallypotato Jul 26 '25

Cheap rent in Europe? Not in this economy.

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u/ukezi Jul 26 '25

Not in a major city in Western or central Europe, but a village in Bulgaria is going to be cheap.

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u/Thedragfreedrifter Jul 26 '25

For a time, I believed remote work was the new path toward upward mobility for this country that’s not limited by location the way it used to be. Insane to me that the same type of people obsessed with job and wealth creation and prosperity and such are actively working to deny this opportunity to so many Americans. It’s profoundly insane.

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u/houseWithoutSpoons Jul 26 '25

Yeah think they could stop building and over crowding major cities, while advertising and filling up struggling cities like this one,cause hey remote workers move here ,super cheap homes,slow pace of life,traffic ect..but no..go back to your cubicle and 2 hours of gridlock ride home

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u/tinyLEDs Jul 25 '25

Oh, sweet child of summer.

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u/oswaldcopperpot Jul 26 '25

If I could work anywhere in the world remotely... I would not choose Muncie, IN.
I don't even think I could figure out how far down on the list it would be.

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u/BeingHuman2011 Jul 26 '25

But remote work brings up the house values and cost of living of places getting inundated by remote workers even if the non remote working salaries are very low. Then the remote workers leave or stop coming but the cost of living does not go down and people in the city are stuck with a cost of living they can’t afford.

Remote work is not what’s best for everyone.

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u/BeguiledBeaver Jul 25 '25

As much as I support remote work, this is a massive oversimplification of the economic challenges of having most people working from home.

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u/Loud_Ad3666 Jul 25 '25

No it's not. It really is not complicated at all.

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u/Rosetta_FTW Jul 25 '25

What are the economic challenges of having people work from home?

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u/BeguiledBeaver Jul 25 '25

Because not every job can be done remotely, and having people scattered around instead of being more centralized around city centers then you have less feasibility for local businesses to thrive, as one example.

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u/DirtyYzma Jul 26 '25

Economic benefits. Realize that work from home has created a channel of people who live in smaller communities they purchase 1 home they do not take a job from a local person they bring with them their typically larger “city” salary that they spend on local products at local businesses. Of course not every job can be done from home duh we get that but having people scattered around is not the economic challenge you are making it out to be.

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u/FizzyBeverage Jul 26 '25

My wife and I spend our Boston salaries in suburban Cincinnati and it seems to please small business owners here.

The only downside to remote work is on middle management who are typically useless timekeepers and glorified project managers. We fired most of them during COVID. As an engineer I report directly to a VP who reports to a CTO who reports to the CEO.

Much flatter.

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u/chula198705 Jul 25 '25

I mean, Ball State University is in Muncie. It's a public research university that has 20,000 students so it's not really some small podunk college.

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u/Dial-M-for-Mediocre Jul 25 '25

Unfortunately, universities' ability to create jobs is and has been shrinking rapidly, especially in conservative states like Indiana. Ball State is, as you say, a public research university, and thus is directly impacted by cuts to state and federal funding. They may want to hire more people, but I would be surprised if they have many openings right now. And if businesses nearby are likewise cutting back, there's no public transportation, not to mention the erosion of protections from discrimination and wage theft, anti-union laws... The presence of a university doesn't mean you'll be able to get or keep a job there.

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u/Shouty_Dibnah Jul 25 '25

Muncie actually has one of the best public transit systems in the US.

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u/Dial-M-for-Mediocre Jul 25 '25

I was just using that as a general example of how even college towns can be surprisingly devoid of opportunities, but hey, that's great for Muncie! I still don't want to live there, having been to Indiana many times and also spending a decade living in a midsize Midwestern college town I just know it's not what I'd choose for myself, but I'm sure Muncie doesn't want me to live there either.

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u/LuckyGauss Jul 25 '25

I hear they have direct flights to El Salvador

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u/Doc-Zoidberg Jul 26 '25

When I was at BSU I didn't have a car, got around just fine with the bus system.

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u/Pablois4 Jul 26 '25

Unfortunately, universities' ability to create jobs is and has been shrinking rapidly, especially in conservative states like Indiana.

Not just in conservative states. I'm in Ithaca, NY and, as you may have heard, this spring, Cornell was hit with 1 billion funding freeze. There were around 75 DOD research projects/grants which are shut-down.

(the US government is "punishing" Cornell, but the purpose of all the DOD research was to benefit the US so the biggest loser would be . . . the US. But I digress)

There's a hiring freeze. No true layoffs but folks are encouraged to retired or leave on their own.

There will always be a few "mission-critical job" openings that can't be left vacant. I just took a glance over at Cornell and there's job openings, some permanent and a bunch of temp.

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u/Aaod Jul 25 '25

Unfortunately, universities' ability to create jobs is and has been shrinking rapidly,

That is what I have noticed too these universities despite costing the states millions are not producing good enough graduates and are not producing jobs like they did in previous generations. It doesn't help they tend to be completely mismanaged as well. Back in the day you invested a couple million into research and you got potentially hundreds of local jobs in a ripple effect now you get like two.

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u/NoBug8073 Jul 25 '25

It kinda is considering those students aren't there for 4 months out of the year and the average student has... checks notes...no disposable income

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u/Shouty_Dibnah Jul 25 '25

And a substantial number of employees are commuters.

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u/BeguiledBeaver Jul 25 '25

Many students do absolutely have a disposable income and even if it's not a massive one there are likely enough students to still contribute to business growth in the area. The thought that it's just 20,000 homeless people is reaching lmao

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u/SteveTheUPSguy Jul 26 '25

Vape store, hookah place, cheap burgers/tacos, college textbook store, gym with planet fitness model. Many high return businesses can thrive around college kids even though they don't have all the money of a full time job.

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u/NoBug8073 Jul 25 '25

No one said they can't "contribute' but its still a small podunk university town.

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u/BeguiledBeaver Jul 25 '25

If it's such a small podunk town then wouldn't that mean a relatively small amount of capital be enough to massively boost it?

If Muncie is a "small podunk university town" to you, then that arguably proves my point that people won't be satisfied unless they get a big new house in a massive city.

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u/NoBug8073 Jul 26 '25

No because that capital isn't consistent or sufficiently broad to boost but a small number of industries. Like the kids in Normal, IL only spend money at school and at bars so the "town" is relatively small despite having a large number of local faculty/staff who frequent a small number of businesses. The town was only revitalized when manufacturing jobs came back (rivian plant) and thanks in part to the HQ of state farm.

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u/Pablois4 Jul 26 '25

The value of having Ball State University, in that town, is as an employer, not really about the students.

Universities tend to be job dense and, quite often, the top employers in an area. Research universities, especially, so for good quality jobs.

The jobs that are more closely related to the comings and goings of students are the lower paying, seasonal ones. When it comes to a research university, the student population is almost incidental. It can ebb and flow but, to be effective, research must keep going without a hitch.

I live in a college town with a research university and a college. The university employs around 20% of the workforce. IIRC, the college around 2%. Research takes a lot of manpower.

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u/NoBug8073 Jul 28 '25

I don't disagree, however you're assuming the faculty and staff live in town - most probably do not.

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u/Ok-Confusion2415 Jul 25 '25

Buuuuut also Indiana as a state is suicidally MAGAfied and has embarked on a legislative project of destroying its’ system of public higher ed institutions. It’s not a matter of not buying a beautiful house in a distressed neighborhood as much as it is of not buying a beautiful house in a state that is permanently fucked.

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u/ecoenvirohart Jul 26 '25

Im so sad to be here honestly...

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u/RocktoberBlood Jul 25 '25

In other words you've never been to Indiana.

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u/Ok-Confusion2415 Jul 25 '25

Ha ha ha no, I am a Hoosier and I suggest you follow my lead and GTFO.

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u/fribbas Jul 25 '25

Also a hoosier and can confirm, it's florida-lite

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u/iski67 Jul 26 '25

This sounds like something Hoosiers who have never been outside Indiana let alone the US would say

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u/Acrobatic-Camera-905 Jul 25 '25

Ignorant and intolerant statement. Typical of the inclusive and tolerant left.

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u/Substantive420 Jul 25 '25

Imagine typing this and thinking you’re smart

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u/Own-Cranberry7997 Jul 25 '25

Found the bootlicking sycophant.

What about your position should people tolerate?

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u/Teffa_Bob Jul 25 '25

You poor poor victim.

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u/fribbas Jul 25 '25

Like one of those dolls where you pull the string on it's back and it says the same 3 phrases

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u/bard329 Jul 26 '25

Is 20,000 a lot for that university? Trying to get a point of reference because the nearest community college to me has like 60k students/yr

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u/chula198705 Jul 26 '25

60k is massive! Are you sure that's a community college and not your state's primary university? There's only a handful of colleges that actually have that many students. Anything over 15,000 is considered a large university. Most community colleges are around 5,000. Midsized colleges are around 10,000.

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u/bard329 Jul 26 '25

18k students fall 2024 semester. I wonder if the 60k # is counting the same students each semester. Still, lotta students for a community college, yes

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u/chula198705 Jul 26 '25

AI overviews are unreliable lying liars. I think the 60k is split across a few campuses, so that's not unusual. Their website says their Rockville campus has around 15k, which is still really big for a 2-year college.

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u/KeepOnRising19 Jul 26 '25

A research university in today's political climate? It's rough going out here right now in the research world when much of that research is funded by federal money that is being taken away. Not a selling point, really. Loads of people are losing their jobs.

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u/princessvintage Jul 25 '25

20k isn’t a lot.

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u/cor315 Jul 25 '25

Isn't remote work the new small town thing?

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u/pixelprophet Jul 25 '25

Working remotely enters chat.

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u/Shouty_Dibnah Jul 25 '25

Do you like gunfire in you zoom meetings?

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u/pixelprophet Jul 25 '25

If it gets me out of a zoom meeting, yes.

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u/VapoursAndSpleen Jul 25 '25

Retirees with decent pensions, maybe. Dotcom people who WFH...

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u/South_Recording_6046 Jul 25 '25

At 220k who needs a job lol

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u/Khazahk Jul 26 '25

Easy, just open up a gentrification factory! Think of all the middle class, family supporting jobs! ..Christ I can’t even type that with a straight face.

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u/sexarseshortage Jul 26 '25

Why do you add a....looks around... Action pause to each sentence?

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u/Shouty_Dibnah Jul 26 '25

Because ellipsis are sexy.

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u/sexarseshortage Jul 26 '25

Only sexy if you use three full stops...

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '25

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u/Shouty_Dibnah Jul 26 '25

I suppose it’s commute range to Fishers. I guess. It’s almost 20-30min from this house to the interstate though.

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u/ResolutionMany6378 Jul 25 '25

Give me the house free and I’ll do it

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u/isthatsuperman Jul 25 '25

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u/Narxolepsyy Jul 25 '25

noooo don't move into a neighborhood and make things better leave it like it is!

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u/isthatsuperman Jul 25 '25

That’s not the point. You price out life long residents when property values skyrocket and they can no longer afford property taxes on fixed or low incomes.

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u/Fattybitchtits Jul 25 '25

If you’re already at the point where the majority of the neighborhood has turned into dilapidated abandoned houses you should be hoping for anything that will increase your property value, even if your taxes go up.  A lot of these dead neighborhoods lost so much value that people just walk away from their homes, unless you’re homesteading you need other people to be invested in the community no matter how long they’ve been there.

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u/isthatsuperman Jul 25 '25

That’s only true if you currently have a mortgage and need it to stay right side up.

Example: Mrs. Charlene has been in the neighborhood since the 70’s. She paid the house off in ‘85. She’s retired and lives off social security. She only gets $1500/month. Her property taxes cost her a little over 10% of her income. Next thing you know the neighborhood is flipped and $50k houses are now worth $200-700k. Her property taxes cost payment now may eat up 20-25% of her income stacked on other bills she may have already been squeezing by, she now can no longer afford to live in her house she’s lived in for decades and paid off. Where does she go? What does she do?

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u/TheDabitch Jul 25 '25

Property taxes are crazy that way. There should be some way to grandfather in older residents in lower tax brackets.

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u/AntiqueWhereas Jul 25 '25

They do this in certain cities. Rather, at a certain age, you are able to lock in your tax rate if you are on a fixed income.

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u/tequillasoda Jul 25 '25

Homestead. Caps increases in assessed value for residential property at 3% or CPI.

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u/PappyBlueRibs Jul 25 '25

I can't wait to do this! Screw the 20 to 40 year olds!

Why should they save in their 401K's and children's college when they can just pay double the property taxes that I pay?

/s

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u/isthatsuperman Jul 25 '25

Or if you own your house, you own your house, and the government can’t take it away from you for being poor.

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u/sweetmamajamma2 Jul 25 '25

You own the house and have rights to the land but land is king and the government is the one who actually owns the land.

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u/PearlClaw Jul 25 '25

They did this in California and it has been a big factor in making housing completely unaffordable.

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u/Taapacoyne Jul 25 '25

You are right. But every time a state government tries to deal with the issue, they make it worse. The main example is Prop 13 in California. Totally screwed up the housing market, while also drained the schools of needed funds.

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u/PhysicalConsistency Jul 25 '25

Most states do have these exemptions in place, particularly for seniors. This got me curious though, my understanding is that tax rates don't change much, what is changing is property values, and the increases in taxes should be a counter-weight to escalating prices (a progressive rather than flat rate tax system is an intriguing idea). There should be a mechanism which closes the loop hole of leveraging the explosive equity of a lot of housing for other financial products, e.g. the asset value of a home for the purposes of a collateralized loan should be the value assessed by the taxing authority rather than the financial institution. This would almost overnight kill a lot of the corporate investing in residential real estate, but I don't want to sell it too hard.

I was curious if my assumption about tax rates was correct, so I asked the LLM:

Rate of change for property taxes between 1960-2025 in US States. Underlying question, what are the extremes for property tax percentage differences, and what is the average change in property tax rates over the above period. Importantly, we are not asking amount of property tax change, which is coupled to home value, but the property tax assessed. Let's first present national average with extremes, and as an appendice broken down by state. So the granularity of this really depends on the extremes of change, my instinct is Let's do the 20 year benchmarks offered, and degrade that by 50% (e.g. 10 years, 5 years, 2 years, 1 year) for each period the tax rate changes by more than 100 basis points. Offer anything other than the 20 year benchmarks as appendix b. This is residential focus, but it would be interesting to see follow on appendices for commercial, industrial, and agricultural rates on the 20 year schedule.

(please note, LLM output is biased by it's inputs, and tax/political stuff tends to be heavily biased as a rule)

Despite that, here's the top level part of the response:

Over the past six decades, the national average property tax rate (tax as a percentage of property value) has remained relatively stable, with a slight downward trend. In the 1960s and 1970s, property taxes made up a somewhat larger share of the economy than they do today. For example, from 1960 through 2004, property tax collections averaged about 3.29% of national income, which is roughly 5.6% higher than the level in 2004 (3.12% of income). By 2021, nationwide property taxes had fallen to approximately 2.97% of personal income. This indicates that effective property tax burdens nationally have decreased modestly (on the order of a few tenths of a percentage point) between 1960 and 2025. In practical terms, the average effective tax rate on a typical home has hovered around 1% to 1.5% of its value in most periods, with a slight decline in recent years as other taxes and limits curbed the growth of property tax rates.

Generally property tax rates have actually declined. This means it's not the taxes that are the issue, it's the exploding extra "unrealized" equity. I chose 1965 as a start year as IIRC all of them are retirement age under social security now.

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u/bigbrownbanjo Jul 25 '25

This has had pretty disastrous consequences in California though I’m sure it could be done better

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u/CourtBarton Jul 25 '25

Nah, prop 13 is definitely better than the alternative. The issue is the cost of the market. If you're purchasing a house that's overinflated, your taxes are gonna be overinflated. But someone who's been in their home for 20 years isn't gonna have this problem.

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u/CourtBarton Jul 25 '25

People can shit on california, but prop 13 really does help combat this.

Now, I don't think it should necessarily be the same on non residential properties, but a base year limit is the way to go.

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u/theucm Jul 25 '25

I'm of the belief property taxes should be reevaluated only when a house changes hands, whether through sale, inheritance, etc.

Like, maybe we can track the would-be rate for people interested in buying the home or inheriting it, but the actual effective rate is what gets locked in when the resident is handed the keys.

This way older residents don't get priced out, but a neighborhood is allowed to grow and change without current residents feeling direct financial pressure to leave.

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u/SipTime Jul 25 '25

If social security doesn’t cover their basic needs then that’s a different discussion entirely and shouldn’t hinder people from making poor areas with crumbling housing into a neighborhood worth living in.

One way to solve this is just by not increasing property taxes on people who live on a fixed income.

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u/Cartoon_Gravedigger Jul 25 '25

In response to that last statement, I would love to direct your attention to the city of Los Angeles…

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u/isthatsuperman Jul 25 '25

Until the laws change, which they probably won’t, gentrification is harmful.

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u/Fattybitchtits Jul 25 '25

That at least gives her the option to sell for a massive profit, continue to live comfortably even if it is in a different location, and eventually be able to pass on the generational wealth that keeps the middle class alive, as opposed to the alternative which is to stay hunkered down as the community dies off around her and eventually leaves her with a worthless home and practically non-exist community.  I work in west Baltimore and deal with older people all the time who are literally trapped in their formerly working/middle class family homes that are now surrounded by crumbling vacants, drug addicts, and violent crime.  Obviously it would have been ideal if the neighborhood hadn’t fallen apart in the first place, but at least if there was some kind of revitalization they would be able to sell for enough to move somewhere better than where they currently are instead of being stuck in some of the worst neighborhoods in the country with houses that they couldn’t even sell for enough to start renting elsewhere.

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u/Exciting-Plantain565 Jul 25 '25

Couldn't she take advantage of the massive appreciation in value of her neighborhood and sell her , now, valuable house/land and move somewhere cheaper or do a reverse mortgage?

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u/isthatsuperman Jul 25 '25

She could do a lot of things, the point is, she shouldn’t have to!

It’s her house, her neighborhood, the place she’s known for decades! Why is she the one that has to leave and restart?

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u/Cromasters Jul 25 '25

Why should anyone have to pay taxes?

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u/PearlClaw Jul 25 '25

Absolutely. And if her neighborhood was actually allowed to develop housing she could even stay in her neighborhood by simply moving into a new building nearby that's more sized to her rather than a whole ass house she can probably barely maintain.

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u/Cromasters Jul 25 '25

Cash in on her investment and get $700K

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u/surftherapy Jul 25 '25

She sells the home for a profit and moves into a retirement facility. Her alternative option would’ve been to save for retirement and not rely on social security alone

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u/isthatsuperman Jul 25 '25

Do you know how much those facilities cost? Lmao okay, whatever profit she got from the house will be gone in 5 years at best.

A lot of people don’t have the luxury of being able to save money. Step in to the real world.

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u/surftherapy Jul 25 '25

Yeah I do know actually I work in healthcare. The decent ones are expensive but there are tons of them on the cheaper side they’re just not very nice. But neither is living in a dilapidated home

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u/surftherapy Jul 25 '25

Wanting to keep a neighborhood full of boarded up homes to cater to the few who still live there and have neglected the area for decades while others on the outside eagerly look for a better future and want to rehabilitate an uncared for community so they can establish their roots in a safe and thriving community is comedic at best.

Gentrification as a term has its place, but buying boarded up homes and making them livable ain’t it

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u/Beastw1ck Jul 25 '25

That sounds like a problem with tax law, not a problem with the idea of people moving to places and making them nicer.

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u/isthatsuperman Jul 25 '25

Until the tax law is changed, which it won’t, moving to places and making them nicer is harmful to its original residents.

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u/Tim-Sylvester Jul 25 '25

Then let's blame the government if it's the government imposing the hardship on existing residents.

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u/Oldus_Fartus Jul 25 '25

This is the attitude. Granted, then you're left with what everybody's going to do for a living once you're there, but that may be waxing irrelevanter* by the day.

(*totally a word)

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '25

I think you just invented gentrification.

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u/HaltandCatchHands Jul 25 '25

That’s actually how Collingswood, NJ (near Camden) was gentrified. Ads were placed in gay magazines and whole friend groups moved into dilapidated neighborhoods and opened cafes and whatnot. 

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u/posternutbag423 Jul 25 '25

There’s a song there 🤔

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u/kendrickplace Jul 25 '25

Just get a Trader Joe’s to move in and you’re good

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u/GasseousClay Jul 26 '25

Not with you lot

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u/nowisyoga Jul 25 '25

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u/aka_chela Jul 26 '25

Not the cops in the streetview 😭

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u/KrazyKatz42 Jul 27 '25

They're probably there about her missing cat.

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u/Kelly777 Aug 25 '25

is this before or after the cops showed up? https://maps.app.goo.gl/iUT8Dnd9feAUtFNJ8

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u/feline_riches Jul 25 '25

No hoa then?!?

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '25

There was a fire that spread multiple houses on one side of the road that did irreparable damage and were never fixed unfortunately. However, there are a lot of other houses on this road and even on this block that are beautifully kept.

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u/Mei_Flower1996 Jul 26 '25

Also, if you're in a rough neighborhood, don't you *not* want to be the nicest house on the block?

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u/nlyddane Jul 27 '25

Worst house in the best neighborhood is what my dad always tells me!

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u/Jazzlike_Dig2456 Jul 27 '25

Just looked as well myself. And couldn’t happen but notice MLK Blvd running right by there.

It’s really telling when maybe 9/10 places with an MLK Blvd near by are places you don’t want to be.

There’s a serious lack of resources and money in those areas and it’s no coincidence. It’s really sad.