question about taxes when merging bedrooms

if we merge two bedrooms into one large bedroom, would our taxes go down at all?

TIA

Re: question about taxes when merging bedrooms

It would have no effect at all. Unless you're changing the square footage of the house, or adding a bathroom to make say a master suite.

Re: question about taxes when merging bedrooms

ours did not - they actually tried to increase our taxes because we had a building permit - they said we added square footage.

however, i was able to fight and lower it because - i was able to compare houses with less bedrooms - because MSLLI is not clear on sqaure footage - you can atuallyy compare to slightly smaller houses on the same lot size - similar style house

Re: question about taxes when merging bedrooms

Thanks for the info

Re: question about taxes when merging bedrooms

You're decreasing bedrooms, so this isn't a factor for you, but for anyone thinking of splitting a room into two bedrooms, at least in the Town of Islip, the septic system is based on number of bedrooms. An increase in bedrooms may require a septic system increase.