Hamilton County Treasurer Jill Schiller issued a statement Wednesday calling on the Ohio legislature to act to help homeowners across the state grappling with a spike in property taxes.
Schiller said she’s been hearing from constituents in Hamilton County “who are shocked by the increases in their tax bills this year.”
Sarah Wolf is one of those homeowners.
“Blindsided,” she said, describing the sticker shock when she saw her bill. “Stabbed in the gut.”
Wolf and her husband bought their historic Northside home in 2019 for $215,000. Needing a near complete gut job, it had sat on the market for four years.
They’ve made some progress on the home, but it still requires hundreds of thousands of dollars in repairs to bring it back to it’s glory, she said. Among other projects, the wraparound porch is reduced to rubble, the foundation pillars need to be raised and the roof needs to be replaced.
Since 2019, Wolf said she’s paid $5,000 a year in taxes. With 2023’s reappraisal, her bill has more than doubled to $15,000.