<prompt> Human: So my wife and I purchased our dream house a couple of months ago. Everything was falling into place so perfectly and seemed too good to be true. One of these too good to be scenarios was the taxes were exceptionally low; 2600k for a 3 bdr, 3 full baths, 1700 sq ft newly renovated home with 5 acres.During the process our lawyer informed us that the former owners had a couple of tax exemptions for veterans that would expire, great!Knowing what our available budget was we wanted to ensure what the taxes would be. The lawyer got in touch with the town assessors who took about a week to calculate the exemption costs and we were told that our taxes without the exemptions would only be 150-350 more. This was much better than we expected and still within our budget.Fast forward to today and I get a letter in the mail from the town assessors stating out new taxes are going to be 7970!!!My wife is starting a new job on Monday and has increases her salary about 11k so we are counting our blessings that we will still be able to handle the increase.However, this is way over what we were expecting and had we known would have not bought this house. Do we have any recourse?FYI we live in NY, southern tier region.  <response>: Its very possible that you arent receiving the tax rate that home owners get on their primary residence. In SC its 2 for primary residence and 4 for anything else. You have to apply for the lower rate though. Might be the same where you live? 