On 1/3/2006 1:10 AM Leon mumbled something about the following:
"Brian Elfert" wrote in message
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"Leon" writes:

I don't understand why property taxes are ever based on anything besides
the value of your property. If you think tbe assessor has assigned too
high a value you can pay an appraiser to do a formal appraisal.


Yeah and that eats up your savings. They have raised the balue of my house
5 years in a row now. Just enough to cost me a hundred or 2 extra each
time.


In your case, it sounds like someone with a large lot or large garage
would pay the same as someone with a small lot/garage but the same size
living space.

Yup. And oddly regardless of the size of the house, the price per square
food differs from one house to the next. A house 5 doors down from me is
twice as large as mine and a single story home and his $ per square foot is
$15 less.

Personally, I would do a local income tax with a flat fee for services for
every house. A larger house doesn't usually mean more city services
except maybe if it starts on fire. An eldery couple living on social
security sometimes can't afford to stay in their house because the
property taxes get so high.

Personally I think all houses in a neighborhood should pay the same per
square foot of living space.

So my doublewide trailer should appraise the same as my neighbors brick
home, or the other neighbor's stick-frame home, even tho we are all
about the same floorspace and about the same acreage? Sorry, I don't
think so.

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