They paid about $135,650 in property taxes over a 10 year period of West Dundee home ownership, or 26 percent of their final sales price.

Property taxes on Sreeni and Hima's rose from $7,324 in 2004, or 1.5 percent of their home’s then-value, to $12,228 in 2017, an increase of 40 percent during their ownership.

Yih-wu and Yuying have paid about $128,760 in property taxes over their 11 years of Oswego home ownership, or 34 percent of their current sale price.

Tony S., Park Ridge, IL, Purchase (inflation adj), $665385, Present Value (2018), $512000, Property Taxes (2002), $9113, Property Taxes (2017), $13388, Total Taxes Paid, $192515, % Tax to Present Value, 37%, “We've been lied to as taxpayers.”

He is currently listing the home for sale for $2.649 million, or nearly one million less than he paid for it ten years ago.

Over 17 years of ownership, they lost more than $2 million on it, adjusted for inflation.

All told, they paid about $205,000 in property taxes over a dozen years of Bartlett home ownership, or 41 percent of their sale price.

Home values decrease while property taxes increase. That's Illinois.

Mike S. and Russel O. comment on their exorbitant property taxes.

Sreeni Donepudi was working as a wireless software engineer at Motorola in March 2004 when he and his wife, Hima, bought a brand new, 3,400 square-foot, five-bedroom red brick Georgian with a three-car garage at 2625 Carrington Drive in West Dundee for $474,000, or $632,000 in today’s dollars.