Rob:

Good series on property taxes in Florida.  You have excellent information and thanks for keeping everyone up to date on this very important topic for Florida property owners.

In our personal circumstances as homesteaders for many years, my husband and I are finding it more difficult and more difficult to maintain our home and lawn.  We need to purchase another home which will require less maintenance.  Without the portability of Save our Homes, the tax increase added to the higher cost of another home will be prohibitive to our ability to purchase another home for retirement.  When we purchased our home many years ago, we didn't complain about the unfair tax benefits of existing homeowners and homesteaders who were paying less taxes than we were.   We figured our benefit would come in time, and it did.   

Let's just assume that right now while my husband and I are still working, that we manage to purchase another home and lose the Save our Homes Benefit.  In a very few short years my husband and I will be retiring, and as our income decreases our taxes will continue to go up at who knows what rate!  The only consolation I have is that some day the opponents of the Save our Homes portability will be senior citizens and they won't have the benefit of Save our Homes either.   

The big problem is AND STILL IS that tax rates are too high for EVERYONE.  Hopefully this will at least relieve some of the burden.

The governor's confidence that SOH will stand up to constitutional challenge is simply that it has been on the books since 1992. I hope they have better reasons if they want to keep it. The legal challenge is going to cost the State millions!

Simon - I wouldn't be upset if the whole property tax system got unraveled and they started it over from scratch.  Taxes need to come down.