You are eleven days into diligence on a Florida rental and you have done the careful thing. You did not take the broker's word for the property tax. You pulled it off the county's own parcel page — $4,392 a year — and underwrote that.

The number is right. The county will bill exactly that. And it is still not your number.

In this episode of the 5-Minute PRIME Podcast, host Martin Maxwell walks through the three options on the table and shows why a figure from an independent, authoritative source can be completely accurate and completely useless at the same time.

Tune in to learn:

• Why the tax line on a listing answers a different question than the one you asked — and why that makes it wrong in a known direction, every time
• The two-part exemption most buyers subtract wrong, and the reason half of it never touches the school portion of the bill
• How to size the re-trade — the mistake that turns a fifty-thousand-dollar ask into a three-thousand-dollar one
• The three questions to the county that move this from a re-trade you might lose to a price you offered correctly

Have you ever underwritten a tax line straight off a listing? Do you know what happens to the assessment on the day you close?

Subscribe now to stop inheriting someone else's arithmetic.

Read it — see all three options and decide for yourself: reiprime.com/now-what/sellers-tax-bill

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