Iowa Real Estate Taxes?

Please tell me, where the Table is that relates tax levy to tax district?

Thank you in advance.

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Swimpy wrote:

Miller, you said you are from Illinois. It's the same here as it is there.

It's hard to believe that Chicago ( located on Lake Michigan ) has the same type of weather as either Ames ( central Iowa ) or for that matter Iowa City, Iowa.

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Miller wrote:

Please tell me, where the Table is that relates tax levy to tax district?

Thank you in advance.

On the main page of that site.

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Miller, when you talk about Iowa and weather you're talking about an entire state. Someone from Iowa talking about Chicago would not be talking about lakefront temps vs southwest side vs Ohare temps, they would be talking about Chicagoland temps. Asking about weather in Iowa (an entire state) and then trying to compare it to a portion of Chicagoland is ridiculous. Swimpy is saying that it's in the midwest and has typical midwestern weather, as does Chicago and the rest of Chicagoland.

Swimpy, Miller is a stickler for how she defines 'Chicago'.

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Actually Chicago would have similar temperature to Ames or Iowa City. The big difference would be lake effect snows in the winter.

The yearly average temp in Chicago is 49, for Iowa it is 48.6

Average temps for Chicago in July are 84-65.. for Cedar Rapids are 85-63

http://www.law.uchicago.edu/Life/weather.html
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dvn/climate/index.php

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Miller wrote:

Swimpy wrote:
Miller, you said you are from Illinois. It's the same here as it is there.

It's hard to believe that Chicago ( located on Lake Michigan ) has the same type of weather as either Ames ( central Iowa ) or for that matter Iowa City, Iowa.

It would be harder to believe that the weather would be that different. Miller, maybe you're not intending to be pedantic, but that's how you come across.

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JPB wrote:

Miller, when you talk about Iowa and weather you're talking about an entire state. Someone from Iowa talking about Chicago would not be talking about lakefront temps vs southwest side vs Ohare temps, they would be talking about Chicagoland temps. Asking about weather in Iowa (an entire state) and then trying to compare it to a portion of Chicagoland is ridiculous. Swimpy is saying that it's in the midwest and has typical midwestern weather, as does Chicago and the rest of Chicagoland.

Swimpy, Miller is a stickler for how she defines 'Chicago'.

Chicago is located on Lake Michigan. As far as Iowa, Iowa City is in far eastern Iowa, while Ames is located more in the center.

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parados wrote:

Actually Chicago would have similar temperature to Ames or Iowa City. The big difference would be lake effect snows in the winter.

The yearly average temp in Chicago is 49, for Iowa it is 48.6

Average temps for Chicago in July are 84-65.. for Cedar Rapids are 85-63

http://www.law.uchicago.edu/Life/weather.html
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dvn/climate/index.php

Interesting comment about July in Chicago being 84-65, since temp peaks in August not July in Chicago. In Boston, where I now live, temp peaks in July, not August.

Average temp in Chicago, 49 F would appear to be low. However, having lived many, many years in the inner City of Chicago and having spent many a January where temps were rountinely -20F before taking into account the wind chill factor ( -50F etc ), a low average of 49 F doesn't adequately describe Chicago, temp.

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JPB wrote:

Swimpy, Miller is a stickler for how she defines 'Chicago'.

Of course you're right. I do define the City by the City limits and would never consider any suburb of Chicago as being Chicago.

Why would I? As a native, I know the truth and always avoid falsehoods.

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Miller, you're going to hate Iowa.

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Many a January in Chicago when temperatures were routinely 20 below?

Wow... 20 below is uncommon in most of the northern US. It is only the extreme north that gets that cold with any regularity. So much for the lake keeping temperatures moderate in Chicago I guess.

The record for cold at OHare is only 27 below.

It was not a comment about Chicago, it was a link to a site that lists the weather there. Average temp is the average over the entire year. Chicago does get above 50 in the summer.

Your memories don't seem to match up to the historical temperatures recorded since the late 1800s. Iowa will be downright balmy compared to what you think Chicago was. I suppose you don't remember any days over 100 in Chicago either.

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Swimpy wrote:

Miller, you're going to hate Iowa.

I think Swimpy nailed it.

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Miller wrote:

Please tell me, where the Table is that relates tax levy to tax district?

Thank you in advance.

I believe Iowa City is in Johnson County, right?

http://www.johnson-county.com/taxCalc/qry_taxCalc.cfm

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Many a January in Chicago when temperatures were routinely 20 below?

For sure! I ought to know, as I lived there many a year and during that time I was a faithful rider of the CTA.

By the way, 20 below is -20F, in case you didn't know and that's why many us in Chicago wore long underwear in Chicago.
Razz

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InfraBlue wrote:

Miller wrote:
Please tell me, where the Table is that relates tax levy to tax district?

Thank you in advance.

I believe Iowa City is in Johnson County, right?

http://www.johnson-county.com/taxCalc/qry_taxCalc.cfm

Thanks for that info, as the tax levy is County specific. What is not clear to me, is why the assessments aren't higher, when the amount of acreage associated with the dwelling is taken into account.

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parados wrote:

I suppose you don't remember any days over 100 in Chicago either.

Perhaps you never read the book "Heat Wave, A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago", by Eric KlinenBerg, published in 2002
by the University of Chicago Press.

"On thursday July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperautre actually feels on the body would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over....And by July 20, over 700 people had perished-more than twice the number that died in the Chicago Fire of 1871, 20 times the number of those struck by Hurricane Andrew in 1992-in the great Chcago heat wave, on the dedliest in American history".

(Jacker cover of Heat Wave")

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Swimpy wrote:

Miller, you're going to hate Iowa.

One-third of the population of Iowa City is employed by the University of Iowa. Of these ,a high percent are employed as professors, and they seem to be content with life in a small town in Iowa.

By the way, Iowa City is 3 hours from Chicago and this town is one-thousand times more lively than the Boston suburb where I presently live.
:wink:

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Miller wrote:

Thanks for that info, as the tax levy is County specific. What is not clear to me, is why the assessments aren't higher, when the amount of acreage associated with the dwelling is taken into account.

Maybe the taxes assessed on property in Iowa is offset by some other source of revenue for the local governments. Do you know if there is a state income tax there?

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No I don't know, but for sure I'm going to find out. :wink:

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Miller wrote:

Swimpy wrote:
Miller, you're going to hate Iowa.

One-third of the population of Iowa City is employed by the University of Iowa. Of these ,a high percent are employed as professors, and they seem to be content with life in a small town in Iowa.

By the way, Iowa City is 3 hours from Chicago and this town is one-thousand times more lively than the Boston suburb where I presently live.
:wink:

In case you haven't noticed yet. i live in Iowa. Please stop telling me what it's like here. Thank you.

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