Reply #4: That's the part that got eliminated

[kdmorris]

I get to port my tax exemption if I move from one house to another. So, right now, there is x% difference between the appraised value of the house and what we bought it for. If I move to another house that is $200,000 more than this one. I get to keep that x% difference for taxing purposes, on the whole amount of the new home.

FWIW, I voted against that amendment. There has to be a better way to fix Florida's property taxes than this. This amendment to the constitution did NOTHING to help renters, first time homeowners (people who are more likely to be poorer or to be buying smaller houses) or people who want to stay in their present home (though the extra $25,000 is a slight bonus). Our property taxes are SUPPOSED to go to paying for the schools and the roads and police, etc. The more money we take out of that pool, the more we end up allowing those services to suffer. And our schools are already so shitty that we ended up homeschooling our three daughters from 1999 on. (Most people think that means that we are Christian conservatives, but it was always fun to correct them by telling them that we are actually Atheists Liberals who just wanted a better education for our daughters. The youngest just graduated from high school in June.)