Erm.
No.
But we're now responsible homeowning taxpayers now - just paid our first property taxes online - and now that we're $5k poorer, I've got to say...
OUCH!
The former owners didn't file any exemptions last year for their portion of the taxes, since they were selling...which upped the bill by like $1k.
OUCH!
And we only put away money from June through December, so instead of putting in monthly towards our taxes, we only started putting in after we were in the house and started paying the mortgage.
OUCH!
But, actually, that says good things. If we were able to put away that much money after DRAINING our savings to buy the house and pay for the materials to do the updates we've done, and if we were able to live comfortably on our remaining income, we can successfully continue to put away that much each month which will mean an actual savings ACCUMULATION since it'll be 12 months versus 7!
And our exemption is already filed for this year - the estimate for next year's total due is WAY LOWER! YAHOO!!!!
I think the latest goal is to use the leftover savings come next January's tax time and buy a small used camper to use for NASCAR weekends. But our goals change with the wind, so who knows???
Glad that's over with!
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