I was just across the state line in GA up by Anderson. Taxes weren't as bad as SC, but having friends over the line, we heard a lot. TN is by far the best tax friendly state I've been. I have to wonder though, since you've always had reasonable and un-stupid posts lending one to believe you are not an idiot, how did you once live in the Carolinas, and not know you were going to get the fully tax monty. lol. If, I had the money, I would make an exception for the OBX. But taxing the furniture in a rental, after you've already incurred sales tax?? That's ludicrous. I have absolutely never heard of that anywhere.