tx5050

No it's well back from where the frontage road will be - closer to Arnie's. It's all fenced in with a demolition company sign hanging on the gate. A while back there was a post on this board somewhere about this parcel being for sale. There are 2 other properties between this one and I-10 - CBS Outdoor and Johnson Controls.

there are paper recycling bins at All Saints Church on 10th St. If you drop off your papers there you help their school raise money.

Actually the 10% cap applies as long as the home is appraised each year - whether you protest the appraisal or not isn't relevant . Since Harris County appraises homes every year you should be protected - here's a direct quote from the HCAD website: Prices of new and used homes in Harris County have increased substantially in recent years. In order to prevent sharp increases in home property taxes from year to year, Texas voters in 1997 approved a constitutional amendment, which became effective January 1, 1998, to limit increases in the taxable value of a qualified residence homestead. To qualify, property must be your residence homestead, and you must have received a homestead exemption in your name in both the current and previous years. Under this law, the value for tax purposes (appraised value) of a qualified residence homestead will be the LESSER of: the market value (what the property would sell for on the open market); or the preceding year's appraised value + 10 percent for each year since the property was last appraised + the value of any improvements added since the last appraisal. (The calculated value is often referred to as a "capped" value). Because the Harris County Appraisal District reviews all residential values annually, the maximum appraised value increase on a capped homestead in any year would be 10% over the prior year value, plus value added by any new improvements made before January 1 of the current year.