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East Tennessee.Not just because of the views and climate, but because it’s a no income tax state and the property taxes are low.In New Jersey where I currently live, property taxes on a $1 million house would be around $24k per year. In most of the east TN counties, that exact same home would have an annual tax bill of around $4,300.The reason for such a wide gap has to do not only with the Tennessee property tax rates being less than half of New Jersey’s, but also due to the tax assessment itself. In NJ, the tax assessed value typically matches the market value, while in TN the tax assessment is often half (and sometimes less than half) of the market value. When you combine a lower tax assessment with a lower rate, you end up with a much smaller tax bill than by looking at the rate alone.Personally I wouldn’t spend $1 million on a house though. I know in some markets $1 million doesn’t buy you all that much, but other than maybe Lake Tahoe, none of those markets are places I would want to live anyway. In all of the areas I’d consider settling down in, $1mm would be overkill. There’s no point in paying the government extra money for the sake of vanity.

If that worked, everyone in the world would do it. It would be routine to buy a house and then sell the deed to your spouse for $1. Nobody would ever pay property tax again.Your property tax is based on the assessed value of your house, not the last sale price.

Oh, please, please let him sue her and her publisher. Please, do it, Donald Trump.Remember what happens in a civil lawsuit: discovery. Including depositions.Wouldn’t you like to read (or better, see, in a video deposition) Donald Trump being deposed by a really good lawyer ? And he could not fight being examined orally or demand to be allowed to answer only written questions.And Trump could not fight for very long about being deposed because he brought the suit. So all the nonsense he has raised about Congressional subpoenas and those from the New York State District Attorney would get nowhere.Even more: A plaintiff in a defamation suit has to prove damages, that is, loss. So the defense gets to examine The Donald’s economics - and so gets to subpoena all that documentary evidence about D Trump’s finances - including his net worth, his assets and, sigh, his debts. Many people have been wondering about that money owed to Deutsche Bank and the Russians. If Trump sues Ms Trump, guess what we all get to see ?And I would expect those subpoenas, because the issues of damages would include the loss in value of his properties in New York City, would include the property tax records on those properties (as I understand it, property tax assessments on large commercial properties in New York are based on self-reported valuations - nice deal, huh ?), and the statements Trump made about the values of those same properties when he was seeking to raise money by offering them as showing his credit-worthiness. Do you suppose those valuations, both made by and for Trump, show the same values ?