PROPERTY TAXES IN COQUILLE "OH MY"

March 1, 2008

We went house looking today with the Realty person to look at some of there listing. Debbie Burt is the Broker from Copper Tree Realty. She had two of homes to show us. The first one we looked at was not even close to what we wanted. The house is located on 1 acre of land, however it’s punched into the hillside so there is not much yard in front. For the price it was not worth it.
She took us to another home which was real nice and this went from the opposite of the first one we looked at. It is real a pretty home, real large front room with a large kitchen and a see through fireplace between the kitchen and the living room. Really nice location on 5 acres of land on a dead-end road so there’s lots of privacy.

This home had pretty much all the feature we were looking for in a home but way out of our price range. I think they were asking $285,000 for it. Both of these homes are in Coquille which is nice the second home we liked was located up on a hill and nestled in the trees. When it gets real cold they get a little black ice on the road way but that is live able. Since we came from an area that is colder than that it was manageable... There was one thing I really had a problem with though and that is all the trees around you. Pretty shady area which may make it pretty cool in the winter. Actually it was not really that cold even though it was a little overcast but it was pretty damp due to the rain we had that previous evening.

Now if you could get the home for around $200,000 it may be a great buy, but afraid this will go for quite a bit higher than that.

I had asked Debbie what the tax rate for this home was and she told me she thought it was in the $1.70 per square foot. Based on that the 1700 square feet so the taxed for the year would run around $2,890, or about $240.00 a month. Pretty high taxes. I guess the tax rate varies in Coquille from area to area. And if you have a home in Myrtle point which is East of Coquille it is even cheaper.
This is another thing a person must consider when buying a home up here. To get a close figure is base your taxes on abut a $1.00 per thousand on assessed value, and this will get you into the ball Park figure.

Our tax rate in Janesville California is running us a little over .75 per square foot or around $79.00 per month. Big difference.

These are just a few of things you need to look at if your planning on moving up to Oregon You have to way everything.