If the property is homesteaded, you are grandfathered only at max 3%.You can see bellow an example as the taxes increased after the change om ownership. the big difference is due to fact the area appreciated 1000% since the 90s when the house was initially purchased as a homestead.

A huge headache is just because land is for sale doesn’t mean you can put a house on it.  

I live in CA so the housing market here is out of my price range and I'm looking to get a property where I'm going to school, I was looking into Logan UT.

I do not know the numbers of the house, but I do not like the circumstances.  

I have one rental property - a house that I used to live in for 5 years.

Same reason why an agent may push a seller into accepting $10k less on an offer, it gets the house sold and the difference is only $300 to them (based on 3% commission), whereas it's $9,700 to the seller. 

I am located in the north shore area of MA and got my two duplexes through house hacking but always will to share my experiences! 

All roomates are responsible for the total rent unless you rent by the room for a rooming house.

20k will maybe cover a 5% down loan a 400k house. 

The first one is a 3 bedroom 1 bath house on 1.67 acres.