$3000 for a mean little building in a mean neighborhhod is a lot. A guy on my street pays about $3000 [[he stopped paying in 2008) for a little clapboard house with a postage stamp lot, no basement. In the best of times he could only have gotten about $10,000 for it - so outdated it is. Built probably 1910 and a has no charm, no updates. $3000 in annual taxes is a so unreasonable that he just stopped paying.