South suburban homeowners say some property tax assessments raised by up to 650%

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3 ай бұрын

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Some south suburban homeowners in Cook County reported their property tax assessments increased, with a jump of almost 650% at a Lyons Township home.
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@AllAboutBandsEnt. 3 ай бұрын

Crazy you work hard to become a homeowner only for it to be taxed or snatched away.

@MasterRoss-sn7dl 3 ай бұрын

Been happening forever.

@Novastar.SaberCombat 3 ай бұрын

Yup. Rich gotta rich. 💪😎✌️

@lufiron 3 ай бұрын

Store and dump used engine oil all around the property before they take it. Make it an ecological disaster. When they realize it truly was worthless and now have to spend millions to clean it up, that's when they find out when you play around with the laws you only end up with the lawless.

@johnnywang206 3 ай бұрын

You’re only renting your home from the government. When you can no longer pay then it’s time to be kicked out

@user-oe5ey3ex8b 3 ай бұрын

Home ownership is a delusion because if you have to pay rent/taxes to the government then you don't own but rather rent.

@UncleDavesKitchen 3 ай бұрын

Cook County has become famous for ridiculous property tax.

@paranoidhumanoid 3 ай бұрын

And it's a total frump dump!

@michaelmejia6946 3 ай бұрын

DuPage County is even worse! In the top 5 taxed counties in the nation! Typical democrat state!

@YouEatFishSticks 3 ай бұрын

CROOK county

@TeslaBoy123 3 ай бұрын

Not only cook county this happening in every single county in state of illinois increasing land taxes every single year without drama or excuses

@mfblowfish4671 3 ай бұрын

Big surprise the state that brought us Obama and also the Downfall of the Boeing Corporation has corrupted politics and unfair taxes? No way

@jbatts6307 3 ай бұрын

There should be an investigation and someone should be fired in that tax assessment office.

@cwwcww7465 3 ай бұрын

Bet cha a dolla therzzz a Democrat obama in that office whi dids thisssss...

@sepirocth 3 ай бұрын

On the contrary, the people responsible will receive a major bonus and possibly commission for every property the city can steal. Sick world

@paranoidhumanoid 3 ай бұрын

Property taxes in beautiful coastal enclaves of Spain and Italy are approximately $350 a YEAR for a 2000sq ft. home on a lot up to 1 acre. This Cook County town looks like a total dump.

@imperialmotoring3789 3 ай бұрын

Maybe if Obama was president of Spain they would have similar problems?

@JP-te7kd 3 ай бұрын

and you pay 50% tax for your corrupt social health care. No thank you.

@drowe2 3 ай бұрын

The 50% tax there is right. Govt’s need $ and there are different ways to get it but increasing a tax by 6x is not fair.

@paranoidhumanoid 3 ай бұрын

It is definitely NOT 50%! That's the US rate.@@drowe2

@paranoidhumanoid 3 ай бұрын

Corrupt social health care? The 5-year cancer survival rate after treatment in places like Japan, Italy, Spain and Sweden are higher than in the US which means the quality is better. The life expectancies in those countries are 10 years higher than in the US. Delusional!@@JP-te7kd

@CJ_222 3 ай бұрын

im sorry 650%???????? how is that even legal??

@Novastar.SaberCombat 3 ай бұрын

The wealthy can do absolutely anything they wish. Laws, regulations, guidelines, and suggestions are utterly meaningless.

@unusualfire 3 ай бұрын

10000 to 16000 is not 650%

@RiZenAsH 3 ай бұрын

I remember when I bought my home about ten years ago. I put a large enough down payment so my mortgage was cheap. My home was placed in escrow and my monthly payments were $425/month and that’s with insurance and taxes (for those that don’t know about escrow). Anyway ever since Covid hit like clockwork every year my insurance and taxes have steadily been rising. My payment now is almost $900 and all of this has happened in the last few years. The house payment has remained the same but its taxes and insurance that keep rising. I’ve changed insurance companies to get a better rate and it only lasts for a year and it jumps back up again. Homeowners really don’t have much recourse when it comes to taxes and insurance. They have us by the b@lls and they know it.

@CompaGuitarra 3 ай бұрын

So not worth buying a house? Seems like eventually people can't afford the property taxes.

@ocampbell1954 3 ай бұрын

Pay off the house and don't pay insurance.

@MasterRoss-sn7dl 3 ай бұрын

Fight back

@001Catey 3 ай бұрын

Property taxes are what makes housing unaffordable. I wish people would see that.

@MasterRoss-sn7dl 3 ай бұрын

@@001Catey it depends where you live and your income. NJ and IL will make it unaffordable. 1k/month prop taxes

@JessicaRamosMaskiell 3 ай бұрын

This is what they do, over price on assessing the home, to bring up the taxes and eventually, pricing out the homeowners! 😮 Homeownership no longer available for the middle class.

@Novastar.SaberCombat 3 ай бұрын

Correct.

@michaelmejia6946 3 ай бұрын

Once your home is paid off, you should own it free and clear and the state can never take it away from you.

@tuannguyen-zk3lv 3 ай бұрын

Not only in US other countries as well. They do have property taxes. What they gonna pay for social service.

@Brad-pc3bi 3 ай бұрын

I own my house and land 100%. If I don't pay taxes they will sell the land out from under me in a "tax sale" this country is an absolute fking joke

@michaelmejia6946 3 ай бұрын

@@Brad-pc3bi You’re 100% right. Your house and land should be yours forever just like when you pay off a car loan. It’s not right people pay on their homes for 30 years or longer and the state can take it away.

@bmanagement4657 3 ай бұрын

Property tax is hidden rent.

@eggheadegghead 3 ай бұрын

That’s not how this country works. Americans have to pay the forever rent (property tax) if you want to live in the house even if you already paid for, lol.

@wayneadams7829 3 ай бұрын

Someone has to pay for the dolton mayors Vegas trips. 😅😅

@UncleDavesKitchen 3 ай бұрын

so true. how has that been allowed to continue?

@Novastar.SaberCombat 3 ай бұрын

She's the mayor. That means until she says otherwise, she controls it all. No one and nothing can stop her. No joke; I'm not being facetious. She has full control.

@chinaarlene7035 3 ай бұрын

All mayor's go to conferences and have a spending budget for food. If it was in the budget, they can't complain 🤷

@billsmith360 3 ай бұрын

It's NEVER about the value... It's about the fact that they have investors want to redevelop certain parts of a city and they get a very big kick back if the property can be sold with no pushback

@Novastar.SaberCombat 3 ай бұрын

Yup. Rich gotta rich.

@lorihoop3831 3 ай бұрын

Just keep raising the taxes. You'll own nothing and be happy.

@user-gw4yg2xd9x 3 ай бұрын

Glad I moved from Illinois to Florida, by law in Florida our property taxes can't increase more than 3% per year

@prrplex5594 3 ай бұрын

Indiana property taxes are capped at 1% of the home value. Why many people in Cook County are crossing the border.

@eile4219 4 күн бұрын

you are lucky with those law that they can't increase more than 3% per year because most property increase like 10% per year for the last 3 for 4 years.

@UncleOodoo 3 ай бұрын

The problem is they have to pay teachers and teachers pensions. The normal pension of a retired LTHS high school teacher is 100k+ a year. Most teachers at LTHS at retirement make over $130k for 9 months of work. LT is a good school and has one of the only special needs programs in the area. Not sure how home owners can keep paying these INSANE pensions...... jus’sayin.....

@nesq4104 3 ай бұрын

Wht people have been rapeing they system for a long time. 100k pension. Wtf

@dehoyosrudolph8885 3 ай бұрын

@@nesq4104I know some troopers that are getting $15k a month, then add 3% compounding interest every year, after the age of 55.

@JohnSmith-xu7ev 3 ай бұрын

LT use to be a good school. Its ranked over 30 now because the democrats destroyed it

@UncleOodoo 3 ай бұрын

Moron

@Anomalyy666 3 ай бұрын

@@nesq4104blame public servant unions for that.

@ianjolly1973 3 ай бұрын

Gotta pay for the illegal immigrants

@barrera3794 3 ай бұрын

🎯

@drc3po 3 ай бұрын

Dumb comment

@raybod1775 3 ай бұрын

Cook County Assessors office seems to do this all the time. I live in Chicago and my house was over accessed by 20%. They seems to throw s… against the wall and reverse it on appeal.

@amzarnacht6710 3 ай бұрын

Some unnamed third party wants the land so they're paying the county politicans under the table to inflate the value of the properties. It's the exact same as what was done to long time residents in the late 1980s and into the 1990s when developers wanted to build Turner Stadium in Atlanta. They just increased the taxes until they were higher than the 'offered' price for the properties (i.e. a 'buyer' showed up and offered 25k for a 40k property, owner said no. So the tax 'value' jumped to 1.4 million and the locals who had owned there for 30 years simply could not pay the taxes and were evicted.... and got $0 for their property. All so the city could build a stadium). Rinse & repeat for Mercedes Benz stadium, ect.

@YegorsTV 3 ай бұрын

thanks for reporting on this to make sure nobody ever moves to that place again and its abandoned like Detroit

@MC-un1nx 3 ай бұрын

Says someone who hasn’t been to Detroit

@ironaddicted 3 ай бұрын

This is criminal!!!! Wtf is going on???

@Novastar.SaberCombat 3 ай бұрын

Laws do not apply to the wealthy. Especially not to property owners. I'm not kidding; look it up. If they don't want to do something, they can pay fines. Or... not. And in that case, people need to be powerful enough to sue. Which they rarely are. 😂 In other words, if you ain't rich, you definitely cannot FIGHT the rich, suckah!

@annmarie6289 3 ай бұрын

The Missouri AG sued their assessors office. Found out they were out sourcing to a Black Rock affiliated company who was incorrectly inflating values. Could this be the problem In cook.

@SIGNALFREQ 3 ай бұрын

Dam 🦫 😮 I bet the same tactic is being used in other cities

@notanomad9320 3 ай бұрын

Exactly what happens when you give government too much power.

@mandarin408 3 ай бұрын

A house should be your shelter and a place to raise a family, not a financial instrument to the government and especially bankers!

@peterbedford2610 3 ай бұрын

Sounds like you guys are ready for your own version of CAs Prop 13.

@hungp.8191 3 ай бұрын

Books are cooked. Plain money grab.

@mariahsmom9457 3 ай бұрын

The same thing was done to us here in Kansas City and i think it is happening everywhere. Taxes on 275K homes here are $4300/year. For what? Must be lining politician pockets.

@susanlovesjava4961 3 ай бұрын

Don't they have a limit on the annual increase?

@Novastar.SaberCombat 3 ай бұрын

No.

@danielkame8455 3 ай бұрын

Property tax is a rip off. You can never own your home.

@johnfortes2171 3 ай бұрын

Tax assessment value should be the price paid and stay the same for the life of the loan and only change when the house is sold or added on to.

@drones7838 3 ай бұрын

lol 😂😂😂 - you guys vote for all of these Democrats that do this to you…vote blue no matter who 😂😂😂❤

@timallison8560 3 ай бұрын

you guys. i highly doubt these people are voting blue. you're ignorant. the issue isn't all dems either, this is an issue with one county department. i'm sure the government in red states run just perfectly. have you seen the mississippi cop trial??? nice job voting red.

@CarStory 3 ай бұрын

this is deliberate. they are trying to force you out.

@Novastar.SaberCombat 3 ай бұрын

What gave it away

@JohnSmith-xu7ev 3 ай бұрын

This is Lyons, its a dump. Lyons township funds overpaid government workers

@claudiasmith039 6 күн бұрын

😂@@Novastar.SaberCombat

@arthurtomczak8474 3 ай бұрын

Weeeees gonna make Illinois great no matter how much it cost the home owners .

@johnr2273 3 ай бұрын

Basically 3% tax on your property highest in country . On a $300k bungalow = $9000.00… ridiculous. Please call Pritzker office for State Law limiting increases to 10 to 15% every 3 year reassessed.

@bobroberts1460 3 ай бұрын

Remember World Economic forum. You will own nothing. But these people don’t seem too happy about it…. I’m shocked that there are not annual percentage limits for raising assessments like most all the places I have lived have. Hopefully these people don’t receive a 15k dollar water bill on top of it like a lot of people seem to be getting out of the blue too. I hope the fight for reassessment is successful.

@bvang8370 2 ай бұрын

So does this mean the city is willing to pay $878,330 for a $450,000 home? Sell it to the city for the price they assessed, take the money and go buy a much better home elsewhere.

@WiseMan22 3 ай бұрын

Taxes keep cook counrt property values from going up. Homes that were purchased for 500k 20 years ago, are still worth 500k today. If you were to buy a home in Colorado for 500k in 2003, it would be worth 1.5 million today. How do I know that? I've done it.

@lovelife7343 3 ай бұрын

This same thing has happened in a small town in Minnesota.

@FindMissingKids268 3 ай бұрын

Keep voting blue, no matter who

@Boringcountrylife 3 ай бұрын

And I am irritated at paying $2,800/year in county taxes. 😮

@lokesh303101 3 ай бұрын

Property Tax Assessments which are done on Market Values needed to be determined by the type of Zoning Laws that are in Place and the Floor Space made available within the Property Plot. The Neighborhood effect is seen in the Suburbia and hence the average of Percapita Income of the Region needs to be taken into account to get with the Uniformity in the Urban Livingspaces.

@terryparish7133 3 ай бұрын

Theft is all this is !

@OwnNothingBeHappy519 2 ай бұрын

As to no suprise in the slightest, as long as you continue to allow private equity companies to lobby for property tax and home insurance increases during a time of inflation and stagnant wages, more people will be forced to foreclose, allowing investors and private equity to scoop up the remaining houses or purchase them from banks as soon as they hit the market.

@davereynolds6145 3 ай бұрын

The same thing is happening here in Central New York! Or is it just the blue county I live in?

@Brad-pc3bi 3 ай бұрын

At some point WE the PEOPLE need to say enough with property taxes for single family homes with a few acres. How tf are we supposed to believe we own something if the fking corrupt government can take it away for us not paying the king his due.

@JDDupuy 3 ай бұрын

Happened here in Kansas City.

@elizabethenriquez4789 3 ай бұрын

That hike is to take care of the immigrants !

@amyg918 3 ай бұрын

Exactly

@adrienneadams8187 3 ай бұрын

You got that right

@EroticOnion23 3 ай бұрын

And the mayor's Swiss bank account 😁

@de3853 3 ай бұрын

Yup garcias,lopez and maybe even some enriquezes

@elizabethenriquez4789 3 ай бұрын

I'm not an Imigrant never put foot n a public school my parents both worked all there lives . I pay taxes like any body else. It's very unfair to citizens got go back in line so this people that just got here are already getting help. There moe homelessness now. By people that been needing help desperately. Yes Enriquez by marriage since I was 17 married for 46 years till my husband passed last year.

@landonlandon2251 3 ай бұрын

Now you feel the pain we have on the Northside.. we can't fund the entire county.. others have to step up.

@imperialmotoring3789 3 ай бұрын

Southside isn't cheap either. We need Trump back!!!

@WeiFischer 3 ай бұрын

Government officials are drooling over how to spend this windfall. Cha-ching!!!

@anthonymoore46 3 ай бұрын

So wait you won't get justice for my brother who is murdered in 2018 who's still unsolved but yet you want me to pay more money for taxes for police who do not even try to work give me a break

@anthonymoore46 3 ай бұрын

Worst part is the suspects being protected by the police cuz he's an immigrant who don't even belong in this country All three of them don't even belong in this country who is being protected by this country who still gets to walk the streets and kill other people and the police aren't doing anything 60426

@FindMissingKids268 3 ай бұрын

Did you vote blue?

@jimmylabb5868 3 ай бұрын

The higher the valuation on your home the high the tax you have to pay. That's the housing tax scam!

@jefferykeeper9034 3 ай бұрын

The same old song and dance we made a mistake!!!

@eyelovecolorado2195 3 ай бұрын

Further proof that you will own nothing and in cook county…. You won’t be happy! 😢

@AmoreG94 3 ай бұрын

And they say renting is worse

@rosesmith6208 3 ай бұрын

you will own nothing and be happy this type of thing is a stealth war. oh were are sorry we will have to check into that and readjust the land value, it is the land your renting no thte house. will they get a refund? citizens are considered atm for government.

@Mr.Torres-Mr.Towers 3 ай бұрын

This is happening everywhere. Great for positive equity terrible for property tax.

@aa-hj2fd 3 ай бұрын

This is why this kind of process needs to stop. They need to use historic value. Or use sales tax.

@TheTinminator 3 ай бұрын

They should be sued, the people should get together and do a lawsuit. It is their responsibility to hire qualified assessors. Many times they just hire their friends and families.

@barrera3794 3 ай бұрын

Seems like mismanaging money. Illinois is in soo much debt.

@JamesJohnson-sl3ui 3 ай бұрын

Its not a mistake it is by design.

@kornfedboy 3 ай бұрын

Ever since Fritz Kaegi took office, things have been going to hell for home/land owners in Crook,...uh, I mean, Cook county!

@ppmny7015 3 ай бұрын

Bet there's an AI program in the background making up numbers.

@ernstjacques2056 3 ай бұрын

Went up $500 per month for me just in taxes

@Nahyoutrippin 3 ай бұрын

Simple. Increased value, increased taxes.

@johnr2273 3 ай бұрын

… and guess what they get a kickback in donations from the Appeal attorneys

@pannamal5182 3 ай бұрын

You voted these people in. Good for you now live and be happy

@user-mu3xk7ie2t 3 ай бұрын

This is happening everywhere across USA.🤔

@mariofierro3137 3 ай бұрын

Disgusting and shameful! They wonder why people leave Illinois.

@aaronj2296 3 ай бұрын

You will own nothing and be happy! The bigger problem is when they start new zoning policy in these areas.

@engineered-mind 2 ай бұрын

650% ? That’s fraud and that is illegal

@gomerhanger2285 3 ай бұрын

How exciting 😊

@phillipmarlowe0525 3 ай бұрын

They raise taxes but never even look at the property

@tonypena1 3 ай бұрын

The last sentence says it all

@Freedom1rn 3 ай бұрын

But they voted for these people who are raising their taxes 😂😂😂😂😂

@underground9260 3 ай бұрын

Makes me feel better that I live in downstate.

@aa-hj2fd 3 ай бұрын

Using the excuse of makeup taxes is outrageous

@KingFergus 3 ай бұрын

Almost every property in the country is %50 overvalued... you're happy about that but you don't want to pay the taxes

@yourgooglemeister6745 3 ай бұрын

You will own nothing and be happy

@antwonkyle292 3 ай бұрын

Smells pretty bad to me.

@myishafranklin2634 2 ай бұрын

They should look at Park Forest everyone may lose there home here too

@herbbot8241 3 ай бұрын

For the migrants and teachers

@cgschow1971 3 ай бұрын

Amazon must be eyeing that property for warehouses and they got their hands down the county's pants.

@JohnSmith-xu7ev 3 ай бұрын

Amazon was going to build in that area and changed their mind.

@BigRed2 3 ай бұрын

When liberal Gov needs money they tax you for it and this is one way of doing it

@agmcroom2374 3 ай бұрын

This just shows you that government is the problem. Punishing hard working people who own their houses to garner money to pay for people who shouldn’t be here. Even after you pay your house you’re not free.

@blackjackphil8613 3 ай бұрын

Ohio 25k house all ran down $2500 taxes.

@underground9260 3 ай бұрын

Depends on where you live. Cuyahoga county taxes are about as high as cook county.

@nameuser4406 3 ай бұрын

Homeowners got breaks?

@JeffNunz 3 ай бұрын

Crook County the name said it all!

@quoclien3343 3 ай бұрын

They ran out of ideas to tax you so they look at your family home now

@sheepman6291 3 ай бұрын

I will never move to Chicago.

@mylifeintexas 3 ай бұрын

These politicians and elected bureaucrats are doing everything they can to raise the value to increase revenue.

@DaveScottADV 3 ай бұрын

My property taxes in Worth township are going up over 60%. It's criminal. Chicagoland Democrats are an absolute plague.

@Vinking18 3 ай бұрын

They made a mistake..make them pay back pay for all the mistakes.

@Kish-wm8tu 3 ай бұрын

Where’s the DOJ? oh I forgot they mad at Apple working on that.

@NeoSoulCrew 3 ай бұрын

"sell house, take losses" stop being dramatic bro. Houses appreciated youre sitting on record equity

@dutch4117 3 ай бұрын

Chicago, you guys are really crushing it lately… a shining star for the rest of the nation to emulate. Bravo guys, bravo. Keep “Ridin’ With Biden!” and his cohorts!

@alfiey5783 3 ай бұрын

Everything is my dad’s fault! - hunter biden

@johnaltobello5095 3 ай бұрын

All of cook county is overassesed..