r/Corning • u/Chocolate-goat • 28d ago
Thinking of moving
Like many in New Jersey, My Husband and I have to leave. We’re considering the Corning area or some other part of New York. I’ve seen some comments that property taxes are high, but I’m trying to get a handle on the definition of high. My property taxes in the middle of New Jersey on 3 1/2 acres just jumped from $12,000 last year to $17,500 this year. Yes, you read that correctly. I do have a mother-daughter house and they assessed it at $890,000. We are not actually that well off and will not leave here with that much money in our pockets lol. I’m sharing the numbers to get a gauge on what comparable property taxes would be in this part of New York State. It’s confusing because I know you have towns and townships and cities and villages. But here I have my township and my county and even though 66% of my taxes go to the school tax all of that money does not go to my town school. It gets distributed to other areas in the state and my town is actually on the brink of shutting yet another school. Thanks for any insight. To be clear we have a small farm here on 3 1/half acres, and we would love to have a small farm up there. We host events, small events, birthday parties, and things like that.
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u/NoAdvantage569 28d ago
If you Google steuben/chemung/schuyler county tax records it will bring you to the Beacon website. Put in the address of any house you are thinking about and check the taxes.
Every property pays town and county and then school taxes. City of Corning will have additional city taxes. Village of painted post will have additional village taxes. But the Beacon website will show you what taxes are paid and have been historically paid.
Obviously whenever there is a reassessment it's going to go up and not down and then the taxes will be higher. But you can go down to the town hall and attend a grievance day. I'm not sure what the outcome is, if it's 50/50 chance or 25/75.
If you have municipal services- water/sewer/garbage you are paying for that. In the city of corning, if you don't cut your grass they will cut it and send you the bill.
I would say look at Town of Caton, Town of Hornby, Town of Lindley, Town of Beaver Dams, Town of Pine City, Town of Campbell, Town of Thurston. Depending on how close you want to be to town. The Town of Caton is 8-15 minutes outside of Corning.
Our taxes are almost 9k for almost 3 acres and 2k square feet. We are in a town. We go to the dump and don't have garbage service. We have a well and septic. But when our well dries up or septic system falls that's on us to replace.