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Dates Property Tax Due California

Shedding a little light on when property taxes are due or late.

This chart should help you to balance your mortgage payments

when you do not have impounds included in the monthly payments.

That Christmas Bill is the one I hate. I'm paying extra principle and

then along comes the County increasing my property taxes

Property Tax Schedule Orange County California

Also true for most Counties in California

PROPERTY TAX SCHEDULE

The following schedule is intended to serve as a general guide to property-owners.

July 1	Beginning of the fiscal year.
August	Treasurer-Tax Collector’s Office mails delinquent prior year secured notices.
August 31	UNSECURED TAX DELINQUENCY DEADLINE as of 5:00 p.m. A 10% penalty plus a $75.00 collection fee is added as of 5:00 p.m.
Sept 25 – Oct 5	The Treasurer-Tax Collector’s Office mails out original SECURED PROPERTY TAX bills.
October	Unsecured Tax liens filed for unpaid unsecured accounts.
November 1	First SECURED PROPERTY TAX installment is due; delinquent UNSECURED accounts are charged additional penalties of 1.5% per month until paid.
December 10	FIRST INSTALLMENT payment deadline. A 10% penalty is added after the deadline.
January	Treasurer-Tax Collector’s Office mails delinquent notice for unpaid FIRST INSTALLMENT and SUPPLEMENTAL SECURED INSTALLMENTS.
February 1	Second SECURED PROPERTY TAX installment due.
Feb – March	Treasurer-Tax Collector mails delinquent prior year secured installment.
March – July	UNSECURED PROPERTY TAX statements mailed.
April 10	Second SECURED PROPERTY TAX installment payment deadline. A 10% penalty plus $23.00 cost is added after the deadline.
May	Treasurer-Tax Collector mails delinquent notices for any unpaid first and second installment taxes and SUPPLEMENTAL SECURED INSTALLMENTS
June 30	End of fiscal year.
July 1	Delinquent SECURED accounts and SECURED SUPPLEMENTAL accounts are transferred to delinquent tax roll and additional penalties added at 1.5% per month on any unpaid tax amounts, plus $15.00 redemption fee.

Please note that the list above includes only the more significant dates and may not include all items or activities in the regular tax cycle.  If a delinquent date falls on a weekend or holiday, the delinquent date is the next business day.   In addition, SUPPLEMENTAL TAX bills are mailed throughout the year. 

Counties In California  Click County Name for detailed Statistics  Population   Alpine County  1,175  Amador County  38,091  Butte County  220,000  Calaveras County  45,578  Colusa County  21,419  Contra Costa County  1,049,025  Del Norte County  28,610  El Dorado County  181,058  Fresno County  930,450  Glenn County  28,122  Humboldt County  134,623  Imperial County  174,528  Inyo County  18,546  Kern County  839,631  Kings County  152,982  Lake County  64,665  Lassen County  34,895  Los Angeles County  9,818,605  Madera County  150,865  Marin County  252,409  Mariposa County  18,251  Mendocino County  87,841  Merced County  255,793  Modoc County  9,686  Mono County  14,202  Monterey County  415,057  Napa County  136,484  Nevada County  98,764  Orange County  3,010,232  Placer County  348,432  Plumas County  20,007  Riverside County  2,189,641  Sacramento County  1,418,788  San Benito County  55,269  San Bernardino County  2,035,210  San Diego County  3,095,313  San Francisco County  805,235  San Joaquin County  685,306  San Luis Obispo County  269,637  San Mateo County  718,451  Santa Barbara County  423,895  Santa Clara County  1,781,642  Santa Cruz County  262,382  Shasta County  177,223  Sierra County  3,240  Siskiyou County  44,900  Solano County  413,344  Sonoma County  483,878  Stanislaus County  514,453  Sutter County  94,737  Tehama County  63,463  Trinity County  13,786  Tulare County  442,179  Tuolumne County  55,365  Ventura County  823,318  Yolo County  200,849  Yuba County  72,155

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Mortgage Rates Like The Surf

Two hundred and ninety two thousand jobs are added to the economy in December versus 200k expected, I think the bond market should have moved at least one basis point. That is not the case. Here we stand this morning with the entire Treasury stack unchanged for the day. The 10yr is currently 2.14%, which is right in the middle of the range for the last 12 months. In fact the average 10yr yield for the past year was 2.135%. Additionally the 10yr is actually down since the Fed meeting when they raised interest rates and indicated they expect to raise rates around 4 times in 2016! So why is the Ten Year Bond down 15bps since December 16th? In fact why are both short term and long term rates down since the Fed announcement?

 

Falling oil prices and the glut of oil should be news to turn the Federal Reserve around, but they say that cheap prices at the pump are temporary

 

The Fed is monitoring INFLATION but in my eyes inflation has not jumped in the United States. Inflation has been below the Fed’s target of 2% for several years now. And it’s not just oil. The Bloomberg Commodity Index, which includes gold, natural gas, corn, copper, oil, soybeans, sugar, etc. is down 25% in the past year.

 

Bad news normally makes mortgage rates drop. THE CHINESE market and North Korea are bad news.

 

I don't think the gurus can ignore real job growth. Not gig second part time jobs, but real jobs.

 

Watching the stock market take some hits -- its like watching the surf on a day the tsumani sirens are singing.  The beach I walk my aged Golden Retriever is Salt Creek Beach in Dana Point California and there are tsunami signs posted on the hill. I think they went up about four years ago. Now that Honey, my Golden is 14 I don't take her down the steps as she will make me carry her home.

We have to watch the signs and listen. It used to be that the ten year bond was the tool to predict mortgage rates, today I'm not certain. Keep watching the surf, when the curve goes up... so will rates

Video of surf I took at my sister's home above in Moss Beach, California