Your home builder’s tax estimate might be off by hundreds of dollars | Here’s how to verify it

A growing number of Florida homeowners say their mortgage payments jumped by hundreds, even more than a thousand dollars, within their first year of owning a new construction home, and many believe they were never warned it could happen. Their complaints are now at the center of a class-action lawsuit accusing D.R. Horton and its lending arm, DHI Mortgage, of misleading buyers by providing property tax estimates that were far lower than the true cost.