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Paid our property taxes

January 15th, 2020 at 12:34 am

I realized yesterday that we have not yet gotten the property tax bill. I was sure the payment is due February 1 so it seems awfully late to have not received it yet.

I posted a question in our town's Facebook group today and others confirmed that the bills haven't gone out yet. Someone mentioned that there is a 10-day grace period so you really don't have to pay until 2/11, but I don't play those games. I pay before the stated due date, and typically when I get the bill so it doesn't actually get misplaced or forgotten.

Someone also mentioned that you could pay online and that the bills were already posted. I figured there'd be some convenience fee for online payment that I wouldn't want to pay, but I checked anyway. Turns out that the e-check fee is only $0.99. Since a stamp is $0.55, that means it would only cost an extra 44 cents to pay online and be done with it, not to have to write a check, and have immediate confirmation that my payment was processed. No chance of it getting lost in the mail or anything like that. So I went ahead just now and made the payment. Yes, I paid 2 weeks before I had to, but it's done and I no longer have to think about it - until April.

I'm glad they made the convenience fee so reasonable. It's worth 44 cents to me for sure.

5 Responses to “Paid our property taxes”

  1. GratefulSaver Says:
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    I'm in Morris County, NJ and fortunately our town offers online payment with no service fee if you pay with a check.

  2. mumof2 Says:
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    That is good you could do it online...I find it funny hardly anyone in Aust uses checks...they seem pretty obsolete over here...and the fact it takes 3 days to clear more if it is an international one (up to 28 days)...wow .55 c for a stamp we pay $1...and they are talking of raising it again

  3. crazyliblady Says:
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    Maybe they are not up to date yet on you not having a mortgage? Just a thought.

  4. disneysteve Says:
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    "Maybe they are not up to date yet on you not having a mortgage? Just a thought. "

    No, they've always sent the bill to me and the mortgage company. And others online confirmed that nobody has gotten their bills yet.

  5. rob62521 Says:
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    We are like you. We pay our property bill ahead of time. We can, fortunately, pay them in person or at one of the banks that accepts them without a fee. I don't think they offer the online feature at this point, but I agree, the 44 cents is worth it. We have the option of paying the first installment when it is due and then the second a few months later, but we pay the whole thing so we don't forget and wind up paying a fee. A friend of ours did the two installment gig, forgot the second one by 3 days and wound up paying $13 in late fees. What little interest we would glean from keeping the money a couple extra months wouldn't be worth it to us.

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