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How FL Homestead Exemption Saves You Money Over Time!

Dillon explains How FL Homestead Exemption Saves You Money Over Time so Florida buyers and investors can avoid surprises in the numbers.

  • PublishedApril 3, 2025
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  • Read time1 min read
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Why Florida tax estimates can change after a purchase or reassessment.

How exemptions, assessed value, and investor versus owner-occupant status affect the math.

Why buyers should underwrite the future tax bill instead of trusting the current one.

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Dillon explains How FL Homestead Exemption Saves You Money Over Time so Florida buyers and investors can avoid surprises in the numbers.

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  • Why Florida tax estimates can change after a purchase or reassessment.
  • How exemptions, assessed value, and investor versus owner-occupant status affect the math.
  • Why buyers should underwrite the future tax bill instead of trusting the current one.

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[00:00] and I'll tell you because when you buy a property as an investor your taxes get reassessed every single year basically like the full you get a full increase every single year um when it's a commercial rental property or investment property uh when it's a primary and you have the homestead exe exemption what

[00:17] that does for you is it it shaves off 25% of the um uh property taxes essentially so you're reducing your property taxes by 25% but also you're not going to get the full increase every single year so if you've owned this property for you know like 10 30 years even in this case like eight nine years

[00:42] um you're going to get a partial increase every year and so that partial increase ends up like compounding itself

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