Buying a house in Iowa...

[demoncore1031]

I'm thinking about moving back to Iowa next year because New Mexico is too damn expensive. I am looking to buy a house, preferably in the Humboldt area. What towns have low property taxes, low crime, and good tippers (I deliver for Uber Eats and Doordash as a 2nd job)?

 

[JEFF420]

I'm thinking about moving back to Iowa next year because New Mexico is too damn expensive. I am looking to buy a house, preferably in the Humboldt area. What towns have low property taxes, low crime, and good tippers (I deliver for Uber Eats and Doordash as a 2nd job)?

good luck

 

[ISU22CY]

I'm thinking about moving back to Iowa next year because New Mexico is too damn expensive. I am looking to buy a house, preferably in the Humboldt area. What towns have low property taxes, low crime, and good tippers (I deliver for Uber Eats and Doordash as a 2nd job)?

The largest town close to humboldt is the dirty dodge and you aren't going to find low property tax low crime and good tippers there.

 

[CloneLawman]

That does seem like a tough combination. If you are willing to expand the zone a bit, Storm Lake might fit your bill. Not a large city by any means, but Buena Vista university is in town, and you are within striking distance of Spencer and Sioux City.

 

[nhclone]

I had family in Algona for a lot of years, not a big city by any means, but decent sized town with very friendly people. Obviously been in the news for all the wrong reasons more recently, so I don’t know if that’s changed since my family moved away from there.

Humboldt itself has one of the lower crime rates in the state. Again, not a real big place. One of those 2 would be my choice if I was moving to that area.

 

[Al_4_State]

I'm thinking about moving back to Iowa next year because New Mexico is too damn expensive. I am looking to buy a house, preferably in the Humboldt area. What towns have low property taxes, low crime, and good tippers (I deliver for Uber Eats and Doordash as a 2nd job)?

Pretty much any county seat town within an hour of Humboldt (Algona, Clarion, Humboldt itself, Pocahontas, Emmetsburg, Garner) is going to have low(ish) property taxes and low crime.

Uber Eats and Doordash are non-existent in rural areas. Plenty of opportunities for a second job, but not doing that.

 

[Cdiedrick]

I'm thinking about moving back to Iowa next year because New Mexico is too damn expensive. I am looking to buy a house, preferably in the Humboldt area. What towns have low property taxes, low crime, and good tippers (I deliver for Uber Eats and Doordash as a 2nd job)?

I live in Humboldt, low crime, taxes are fair, great school district. As far as your second job, you might want to look at other options.

 

[AuH2O]

Pretty much any county seat town within an hour of Humboldt (Algona, Clarion, Humboldt itself, Pocahontas, Emmetsburg, Garner) is going to have low(ish) property taxes and low crime.

Uber Eats and Doordash are non-existent in rural areas. Plenty of opportunities for a second job, but not doing that.

If you want any type of local retail options, Algona and Humboldt would be the choices. Pocahontas and Emmetsburg are decent small towns, but the retail options have been really drying up over the years.

 

[NoCreativity]

Don't move to Johnston if you want tipped. The school teachers there would order food everyday of the entire school year then not tip you at all. Or they would leave a note "please leave in front office" so they didn't have to directly stiff you to your face.

I used to pull up to half a million dollar or more homes up on the NW side by the new high school with water fountains in the front yard and they'd give you a dollar for 40 bucks worth of food.

 

[AuH2O]

Also, most sites suggest Humboldt is more expensive than NM other than of course places lake Santa Fe or Taos and nice mountain towns.

Unless you are good with living in a small town without much there, I don’t think you are going to see a significant cost of living reduction by moving to Iowa.

 

[JEFF420]

Also, most sites suggest Humboldt is more expensive than NM other than of course places lake Santa Fe or Taos and nice mountain towns.

Unless you are good with living in a small town without much there, I don’t think you are going to see a significant cost of living reduction by moving to Iowa.

thats my question as well... NM is one of the poorest states in the nation. Iowa isn't cheap. winters are brutal

 

[cytor]

I'm thinking about moving back to Iowa next year because New Mexico is too damn expensive. I am looking to buy a house, preferably in the Humboldt area. What towns have low property taxes, low crime, and good tippers (I deliver for Uber Eats and Doordash as a 2nd job)?

Do you want to live in Hawkeye territory? Of stay in the Cyclone part of the state?

 

[BCClone]

I'm thinking about moving back to Iowa next year because New Mexico is too damn expensive. I am looking to buy a house, preferably in the Humboldt area. What towns have low property taxes, low crime, and good tippers (I deliver for Uber Eats and Doordash as a 2nd job)?

I think you may want to rethink your second job choice with most of the towns mentioned. Not many places to deliver for in them.

Also, very low property taxes usually means a town on the decline.

 

[qwerty]

I'm thinking about moving back to Iowa next year because New Mexico is too damn expensive. I am looking to buy a house, preferably in the Humboldt area. What towns have low property taxes, low crime, and good tippers (I deliver for Uber Eats and Doordash as a 2nd job)?

LeRoy fits the bill.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

Rural Iowa isn't going to deliver if you want to uber. Move to Des Moines and find a house in the small towns around but good luck. They're not easy to find.

 

[Al_4_State]

I think you may want to rethink your second job choice with most of the towns mentioned. Not many places to deliver for in them.

Also, very low property taxes usually means a town on the decline.

A lot of people don’t care if they live in a **** hole as long as they save a few hundred bucks on property taxes.

The town I live in doesn’t have low property taxes, but they’re certainly affordable and we have good municipal services and strong property values. I’ll gladly pay those taxes to know that we have an awesome 24/7 fitness center/pool, clean parks, responsive police and fire, etc. And my house will be worth more than I paid for it when I go to sell it.

 

[BCClone]

A lot of people don’t care if they live in a **** hole as long as they save a few hundred bucks on property taxes.

The town I live in doesn’t have low property taxes, but they’re certainly affordable and we have good municipal services and strong property values. I’ll gladly pay those taxes to know that we have an awesome 24/7 fitness center/pool, clean parks, responsive police and fire, etc. And my house will be worth more than I paid for it when I go to sell it.

Town I'm in bragged about their low taxes. At the time, they basically had morons in charge. Now they have doubled the police force, tried to take on some requirement amenities that no-one would donate to, so property taxes have shot up. They also didn't save anything so when the water tower aged out, the water bills tripled in a little over a year. Now the sewer plant needs updating so by the time it's done, you will have a city bill that is nearly what your property taxes are. Oh btw, the streets are a sheetshow.

Now with the city bragging about it being cheap, they have created a community that thinks a hundred bucks is a good donation to a major project, so they rarely can get anything done that isn't city bonded. Our kid has 2 years of HS left and then we will be looking to flee this town.

 

[1SEIACLONE]

Don't move to Johnston if you want tipped. The school teachers there would order food everyday of the entire school year then not tip you at all. Or they would leave a note "please leave in front office" so they didn't have to directly stiff you to your face.

I used to pull up to half a million dollar or more homes up on the NW side by the new high school with water fountains in the front yard and they'd give you a dollar for 40 bucks worth of food.

Very easy to find houses in the half million dollar range in the burbs around Des Moines and Ames. Lots of people are home rich and money poor living in those homes.

 

[KnappShack]

I think you may want to rethink your second job choice with most of the towns mentioned. Not many places to deliver for in them.

Also, very low property taxes usually means a town on the decline.

Then my town must be amazing!!

 

[ISUTex]

Don't move to Johnston if you want tipped. The school teachers there would order food everyday of the entire school year then not tip you at all. Or they would leave a note "please leave in front office" so they didn't have to directly stiff you to your face.

I used to pull up to half a million dollar or more homes up on the NW side by the new high school with water fountains in the front yard and they'd give you a dollar for 40 bucks worth of food.

I'm guessing they're Dutch.