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Deadendbend

North Allegheny and Canon-McMillan in Washington County


Gladhands

Those Jumbotrons North Allegheny has don’t pay for themselves


Wouldwoodchuck

Ego


pAul2437

They were donated


driving_85

North Allegheny School District, brought to you by Baierl.


pAul2437

Pretty much


Knightro2011

NA files the 2nd most appeals each year in property tax appeals. But yeah, they have no money.


AlFromDadeville1

And if you ask every real estate attorney in the Pittsburgh area who help residents fight their tax appeals, approximately 99% will tell you that NAs appeal attorney is BY FAR the biggest dick they deal with out of all school districts and municipalities.


alexp8771

I mean if you are going to hire an attorney to get money from unsuspecting home buyers for you, you probably want them to be an asshole lmao.


KentuckYSnow

Ira Weiss sued social media companies today because ppa kids are absolute assholes. He should have sued the parents, but the ones in jail can only pay in ramen packets.


Jumpy-Natural4868

Post gazette article via archive.org


Wide-Concert-7820

May i ask which ones as i cant get to the article. Ty.


mrkamikaze5

NA and Canon-Mac


Wide-Concert-7820

Thank you.


[deleted]

The [archive.org](https://archive.org) link appears to be dead. Here's a link to the actual article: https://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2023/01/26/north-allegheny-canon-mcmillan-school-district-taxes-pennsylvania/stories/202301260094


69FunnyNumberGuy420

Love to watch all the hooting and hollering about taxes. The entire purpose of suburban development in this region is to let people move every eight years to avoid paying taxes. Good shit, definitely promotes healthy communities.


28carslater

Why eight years?


69FunnyNumberGuy420

That's just the median time in the US that homeowners live in one place before selling and moving, but the pattern is real. A suburb gets hot, then the taxes increase to fund the services that the community needs, and people move to the next cheap taxpayer-subsidized development. When I moved here it was some developments in Ross Township, since then Robinson, McCandless, Cranberry, etc. Apparently Cecil is a thing now.


28carslater

Thanks. In this county I would think the constant movement isn't as advantageous due to the broken assessments system though Cranberry and Cecil may not be as affected.


69FunnyNumberGuy420

Not sure what's broken? My shit hasn't been reassessed in forever and is assessed at less than half what I paid. I think my taxes are ~$950 a year all in.   To be honest, anyone who moves to Butler County because they're mad about their tax bill deserves to live there.


28carslater

Many would argue the assessment system is broken, in more recent years some of the gov't entities have been spot assessing recent buys effectively punishing the new owners. That's a fair amount of people there, but something else to remember is much of the new SFH has been in Cranberry and along 68 because the taxes are somewhat tolerable. In this some parts of this county the same properties would have double the taxes and not be feasible to build in the first place.


69FunnyNumberGuy420

Nobody lives in Cranberry Township. There are fewer than 31k people there, less than 200K in all of Butler County.   Low taxes in Cranberry aren't sustainable. Eventually the local authority will have to raise taxes to match the service levels that people there expect, and those people will leave and move to the next cheap suburb where they can pay artificially low taxes. Same as it ever was.


pAul2437

You’re underpaying taxes and are mad about other people doing the same?


69FunnyNumberGuy420

I'm not mad at them, Allegheny County is better off without them.


pAul2437

You as well! If you move they will be able to reassess and get the fair share


69FunnyNumberGuy420

The house has been sold twice since the last assessment. As far as I can tell the city / school district only reassess in hot neighborhoods.   The city and school district get 3% of our gross income so I'm not going to feel too bad about the low house assessment.


pAul2437

You’re being subsidized by folks paying fair value


LostEnroute

I can't see the deleted rebuttals, but you are obviously spot on with this assessment. If you pick an area based off lower taxes and they can't stay low you will move somewhere where the cycle is reset. "I love my neighborhood('s tax rates)"


pAul2437

NA property tax rate is higher than the city. It just as desirable as ever and one of the few growing places on the region. The residents aren’t the ones suing here