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People complain the most about income taxes, but property taxes aren’t much fun, either, and worth paying attention to when you’re thinking about relocating.
The list below ranks the states with the highest effective real-estate tax rates, with the worst five states having an average rate of 2.17%. The average amount of annual taxes on a $244,900 home (the median value of a house in the U.S.) in these states is $5,310.
Scroll through to see which states are in the bottom 20 and how they fared.
Source: WalletHub
