That's not crazy high, in fact for comparison (numbers are from 2012, vary somewhat depending on school district within the city):Non-Homestead property tax ratesFerndale 72 millsHazel Park 77 millsClawson 69 millsMadison Heights 64 millsOak Park 69 - 75 millsPontiac 55 millsRoyal Oak 54 - 58 millsSouthfield 62 - 69 millsEastpointe 67 millsWarren 66 - 72 millsRedford 70 - 73 millsHarper Woods 87 - 90 millsDetroit 85 millsAllen Park 60 - 67 millsDearborn 65 - 72 millsRiver Rouge 102 millsWestland 52 - 59 mills Berkley's millage rate is actually on the lower end.

It is a two bedroom, one bath condo unit in Oak Lawn, a southwest suburb of Chicago.

Royal Oak, Ferndale & Hazel Park

I just joined a "meet-up" group that seems to hold a monthly meeting, but all the way out in White-Oak.

Thousand Oaks!

.  :-)"Spacious" living roomKitchen / DiningSleeping loftsMy lot looking westMy cabin on the bluff and my boys on "Our private beach."

This week we closed on a house I sold in Richmond.But my home area is Garden Oaks/Oak Forest, Lazybrook/Timbergrove, and I stretch out to the Heights and up to Spring Branch and Cy-Fair.

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A good friend manages about 50 rental homes in the Marion Oaks area mostly.  

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