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nuckinfutz » 30 Jun 2023, 5:03 pm » wrote: ↑

30 Jun 2023, 5:03 pm

You think tha'ts bad? I have NO PROPERTY INSURANCE, because no one will insure it against fire!
And we re entering a major fire season. Its over 100 F. and I can't run my swamp cooler now. The maintanence guy shorted out the controls. Supposed  to have an electrician on the way today to fix it. Gonna cost me a bundle! I'm sweating like a Turk!      
@sooted up Cyndi

oh- they ain't caught onto me yet. i still have house insurance?
how much is that gonna go up too i wonder!
Don't you have a large window air conditioner. I'm sitting here all month in my winter clothes. I **** you not!
my house is 24- x 64. and the thing gets the house so cold- i'd drive you out?
didnt even put it in last year.  the 3 hot days- used a few fans. but some years i've used it alot.
 
 
 

sootedupCyndi » 30 Jun 2023, 5:19 pm » wrote: ↑

30 Jun 2023, 5:19 pm

oh- they ain't caught onto me yet. i still have house insurance?
how much is that gonna go up too i wonder!
Don't you have a large window air conditioner. I'm sitting here all month in my winter clothes. I **** you not!
my house is 24- x 64. and the thing gets the house so cold- i'd drive you out?
didnt even put it in last year. dor the 3 hot days- used a few fans.

I have a large rooftop  swamp cooler. It cools the whole house, as long as we have dry heat, which is normal for the dry summers here. They don't cost much to operate.
@sooted up Cyndi  
 

nuckinfutz » 30 Jun 2023, 5:27 pm » wrote: ↑

30 Jun 2023, 5:27 pm

I have a large rooftop  swamp cooler. It cools the whole house, as long as we have dry heat, which is normal for the dry summers here. They don't cost much to operate.
@sooted up Cyndi  

what the heck is that?  mine doesnt cost much either. it goes in the window. blows real cold air.
 

sootedupCyndi » 30 Jun 2023, 1:15 pm » wrote: ↑

30 Jun 2023, 1:15 pm

What for? I live in a one horse pony town-
it has no post office- only one store- And they don't even do a good job at plowing the roads!
I am so mad right now... you have no idea! my house is old- falling apart.

property taxes should only be used for improving property. not for the politicians slush fund. yes! taxes should be 'user sensitive'. and. sell all government roads to private companies. yes! toll roads. then see the workers move close to their jobs. reducing the need for cars and all the car expenses. let them walk to work. provide park liker trails. lots of flowers.
 

walkingstick » 01 Jul 2023, 2:16 am » wrote: ↑

01 Jul 2023, 2:16 am

property taxes should only be used for improving property. not for the politicians slush fund. yes! taxes should be 'user sensitive'. and. sell all government roads to private companies. yes! toll roads. then see the workers move close to their jobs. reducing the need for cars and all the car expenses. let them walk to work. provide park liker trails. lots of flowers.

I'm looking at my two tax bills. Last years and this years.
all looks about the same. 
the only thing that is more is my property value. ( house and land)
They added 50k more to the value. No improvements have been made.
WHO DECIDED THAT???????
There has been no improvements. Or changes.
no tax accessor came here and looked. 
INFLATION? in the real estate market.
WHAT?
Anyone know?

walkingstick » 01 Jul 2023, 2:16 am » wrote: ↑

01 Jul 2023, 2:16 am

property taxes should only be used for improving property. not for the politicians slush fund. yes! taxes should be 'user sensitive'. and. sell all government roads to private companies. yes! toll roads. then see the workers move close to their jobs. reducing the need for cars and all the car expenses. let them walk to work. provide park liker trails. lots of flowers.

 This is what they were calling a service economy with people out driving around working for other people, an experimental planed economy for peonage, not USA free enterprise for a self government. Biden was on the job during the implementation of these plans. A corporation group puts these plans in front of the politician who signs the plans into law without checking to see if the plans are constitutionally legal.

  The citizen pays tax that goes directly to a specially protected corporation group who decides what your work will be as one of their anti all creation human resource slave animals that will enjoy about zero legal negotiation capability's (owned like a crop of GMO soy beans).  Not just planning for a feudal monarchy, planning for a new anti all creation feudal monarchy rather than a constitutional republic with religious-thought freedom where people pay a small amount of tax for numerous non removable individual rights.

Possible RFK jr executive order.

  Government workers will not participate in the censorship of citizen speech or compel the citizen to participate in activities that are not legally required by the USA constitution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_3Nf6xjeFs 

sootedupCyndi » 01 Jul 2023, 5:54 am » wrote: ↑

01 Jul 2023, 5:54 am

I'm looking at my two tax bills. Last years and this years.
all looks about the same. 
the only thing that is more is my property value. ( house and land)
They added 50k more to the value. No improvements have been made.
WHO DECIDED THAT???????
There has been no improvements. Or changes.
no tax accessor came here and looked. 
INFLATION? in the real estate market.
WHAT?
Anyone know?

  Property tax doubled and tripled in this area right after Trump became president. This is a high property tax state and a large percentage of people form a corporation in order to purchase a home so that their tax bill will not be more than a rental house payment.

Bob » 01 Jul 2023, 7:11 am » wrote: ↑

01 Jul 2023, 7:11 am

  Property tax doubled and tripled in this area right after Trump became president. This is a high property tax state and a large percentage of people form a corporation in order to purchase a home so that their tax bill will not be more than a rental house payment.

Just shocked! Still MAD.  
Normally it goes up like 100 bucks. Nothing serious.. 
 

sootedupCyndi » 01 Jul 2023, 7:25 am » wrote: ↑

01 Jul 2023, 7:25 am

Just shocked! Still MAD.  
Normally it goes up like 100 bucks. Nothing serious..

  I have been in the same home for 44 years, the home insurance bill is now more than what the original mortgage payment that included tax and insurance used to be, the phone bill was five dollars or you could use a pay phone for a dime. We have a non legal rooster in the neighborhood however no one is apparently getting tickets for the jungle jump car noise that vibrates your home and would keep your children up all night if you were a male-female family.
  Then if you had children who are attending one of the public hospital-schools they could be having some attention deficit problems from sleep deprivation and end up on some behavior modification drugs. The rooster is not going to be up making noise all freaking night.

  The car noise vibrations would probably not be noticed down in an underground fall out shelter and there would be a lot less out door maintenance expenses.

sootedupCyndi » 01 Jul 2023, 5:54 am » wrote: ↑

01 Jul 2023, 5:54 am

I'm looking at my two tax bills. Last years and this years.
all looks about the same. 
the only thing that is more is my property value. ( house and land)
They added 50k more to the value. No improvements have been made.
WHO DECIDED THAT???????
There has been no improvements. Or changes.
no tax accessor came here and looked. 
INFLATION? in the real estate market.
WHAT?
Anyone know?

In the last year of his Presidency Donald Trump approved the largest government spending programs by any measurement, including World War Two, in American history.

Remember all that free government money?

—-
President Donald Trump signed the massive $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law Sunday night, averting a government shutdown that was set to begin on Tuesday, and extending billions of dollars in coronavirus aid to millions.
—

In his first full year in office Joe Biden reduced the budget deficit by one half, from 2.8 trillion to 1.4 trillion, but he could only do that because Covid had ended.

But Trump’s unprecedented, WW2 sized spending put enough money in people’s pockets they could buy houses, like yours.

Your home went up in value because of millions more people with money to buy it.


 

sootedupCyndi » 30 Jun 2023, 12:57 pm » wrote: ↑

30 Jun 2023, 12:57 pm

I just got my property tax bill. UP 600 bucks in a year! I'm furious!
thanks Biden- keep voting for these clown liberals...

It seems pretty obvious to me that those "sanctuary states" who are taking in MILLIONS of illegals MUST increase their property taxes to cover the free healthcare, free education, free smartphones, free food, free transportation, and free housing that this liberal asshole has given out like penny candy on Christmas!

And that doesn't even take into account the hundreds of billions this idiot has thrown at Ukraine in order to get his millions in kickbacks for his whole family!

We'll be seeing similar property tax hikes all around the country as a homeowner's next bill arrives, and that's sure to be followed over the next couple of years as personal bankruptcies skyrocket and people like you end up losing their homes and joining the hundreds of thousands who are now living in tents on the street.

It was inevitable, but your outrage is certainly understandable and is shared by millions!
 

Bruce » 01 Jul 2023, 9:25 am » wrote: ↑

01 Jul 2023, 9:25 am

In the last year of his Presidency Donald Trump approved the largest government spending programs by any measurement, including World War Two, in American history.

Remember all that free government money?

—-
President Donald Trump signed the massive $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law Sunday night, averting a government shutdown that was set to begin on Tuesday, and extending billions of dollars in coronavirus aid to millions.
—

In his first full year in office Joe Biden reduced the budget deficit by one half, from 2.8 trillion to 1.4 trillion, but he could only do that because Covid had ended.

But Trump’s unprecedented, WW2 sized spending put enough money in people’s pockets they could buy houses, like yours.

Your home went up in value because of millions more people with money to buy it.

This has nothing to do with TRUMP ya nitwit. gees-us.
 

Bruce » 30 Jun 2023, 3:00 pm » wrote: ↑

30 Jun 2023, 3:00 pm

Property taxes are set by local governments.

The money goes to local school, police, fire, roads and bridges.

And BIDENFLATION has FORCED the payouts for ALL ITEMS purchased by Cities, Counties, etc. to SKYROCKET, hence the TAX RATE INCREASES ****!! DO you think schools are serving lunches where the PRICE FOR FOOD remained the same as it was in 1973??

You are DUMBER than a freight train full of rocks.

sootedupCyndi » 01 Jul 2023, 10:18 am » wrote: ↑

01 Jul 2023, 10:18 am

This has nothing to do with TRUMP ya nitwit. gees-us.

It does have a lot to do with Trump spending an all time record of an additional six trillion dollars, virtually all in one year, to avoid a major recession.

All that six trillion was borrowed money, added to the national debt.

That record spending caused two things:

A brief spike in inflation (too many dollars chasing too few goods)

A massive increase in demand for homes, whether rentals or purchased, which has raised house prices.

Gasoline, food, clothing and other essentials are coming down in price (eggs are a dollar dozen on sale, gasoline a $1.50 less than last year, and falling, etc etc)

But the rise in home values seems more or less permanent.

Now, to defend Trump a bit, if he’d not tossed six trillion extra at the Covid crisis you might be facing a 2008-9 recession where home prices fell and over one million homes were sold at foreclosure.  It took years for home prices to recover.

And another good thing about the massive Covid spending is that if you bought your home before Covid you are very likely paying about half to own your own home as you’d pay to rent it.

Even now at high home prices, a $200,000 home costs about a thousand a month to buy, and the rent would be $1,500.

 
 

Beekeeper » 01 Jul 2023, 10:26 am » wrote: ↑

01 Jul 2023, 10:26 am

And BIDENFLATION has FORCED the payouts for ALL ITEMS purchased by Cities, Counties, etc. to SKYROCKET, hence the TAX RATE INCREASES ****!! DO you think schools are serving lunches where the PRICE FOR FOOD remained the same as it was in 1973??

You are DUMBER than a freight train full of rocks.

It is connected to the school budget.
but i'm wondering who just decided to tack on more house value.
I doubt If i sold it- i'd get no more then last year. for example.
This isn't Florida where there is a high demand for homes. 
 

sootedupCyndi » 01 Jul 2023, 10:43 am » wrote: ↑

01 Jul 2023, 10:43 am

It is connected to the school budget.
but i'm wondering who just decided to tack on more house value.
I doubt If i sold it- i'd get no more then last year. for example.
This isn't Florida where there is a high demand for homes.

Each county has an assessor, required to adjust assessments to changing market conditions.

If you complain they’ll show you a lot of comparable sales in the last year they used.

One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.

Don’t list your home for sale if you aren’t prepared to move.

And no small county ever spends one dime extra on public schools, these days.

Look at all the new police cars and armored cars  and other toys your local police have.  They spend more on police, because the public seems to like it.

 Our county bought a huge police speedboat and there’s not one place in the county to operate it.

They can assist other counties now, you see.
 
 

Bruce » 01 Jul 2023, 10:47 am » wrote: ↑

01 Jul 2023, 10:47 am

Each county has an assessor, required to adjust assessments to changing market conditions.

If you complain they’ll show you a lot of comparable sales in the last year they used.

One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.

Don’t list your home for sale if you aren’t prepared to move.

And no small county ever spends one dime extra on public schools, these days.

Look at all the new police cars and armored cars  and other toys your local police have.  They spend more on police, because the public seems to like it.

 Our county bought a huge police speedboat and there’s not one place in the county to operate it.

They can assist other counties now, you see.

oh no. i couldn't move all the junk in this place! better off staying put. HA
need some tools? LOL
 

sootedupCyndi » 01 Jul 2023, 11:11 am » wrote: ↑

01 Jul 2023, 11:11 am

oh no. i couldn't move all the junk in this place! better off staying put. HA
need some tools? LOL

Our plan is to die, and let our kids move our junk.

We have central air, but our bedroom is in the top of a century old house, and last year the extra window unit air conditioner went out.

The old one cost, I forget, six hundred some dollars and was 12,000 btu, and it lasted 15 years.  I wanted to fix it, and she said you’ll get a new one.

Geezus, have  they improved window until air conditioners.  A new one was $400 and 8,000 BTU (same size slot) and twice as cold, and quiet as a ghost.

Last night it made an occasional popping noise and it’s not as cold as it was, but isn’t blowing hot air, just not ice cold air.

I figured it needs the coils cleaned. She disagreed.

I have a new one instead in the back of our Suburban, this one 8100 BTU and $369. 

Want a deal on a slightly used A/C unit?

(I paid extra for the service contract, this year)
 
 

Bruce » 01 Jul 2023, 11:36 am » wrote: ↑

01 Jul 2023, 11:36 am

Our plan is to die, and let our kids move our junk.

We have central air, but our bedroom is in the top of a century old house, and last year the extra window unit air conditioner went out.

The old one cost, I forget, six hundred some dollars and was 12,000 btu, and it lasted 15 years.  I wanted to fix it, and she said you’ll get a new one.

Geezus, have  they improved window until air conditioners.  A new one was $400 and 8,000 BTU (same size slot) and twice as cold, and quiet as a ghost.

Last night it made an occasional popping noise and it’s not as cold as it was, but isn’t blowing hot air, just not ice cold air.

I figured it needs the coils cleaned.

I have a new one instead in the back of our Suburban, this one 8100 BTU and $369. 

Want a deal on a slightly used A/C unit?

(I paid extra for the service contract, this year)

NO!  I have a dirty old one still working...lol
I have two of everything. Problem i have. Everything is getting old at the same time. My frig looks brand new. Howling. The fan. dig dig- found the receipt. OMG its ten years old. It's life is about over. Time flys.

Same way with the mower. That shat the bed last year.  smokin like crazy- burning thru plugs..
we always did good up keep on it... life's over. Bought a new one. Still mad at the price of that. It looks like a giant bumble bee in the back yard.
 

sootedupCyndi » 01 Jul 2023, 11:50 am » wrote: ↑

01 Jul 2023, 11:50 am

NO!  I have a dirty old one still working...lol
I have two of everything. Problem i have. Everything is getting old at the same time. My frig looks brand new. Howling. The fan. dig dig- found the receipt. OMG its ten years old. It's life is about over. Time flys.

Same way with the mower. That shat the bed last year.  smokin like crazy- burning thru plugs..
we always did good up keep on it... life's over. Bought a new one. Still mad at the price of that. It looks like a giant bumble bee in the back yard.

Last month it was time to dig out the gas weed eater.

Cord pulled off, in my hand.

I said I’ll get it fixed, honey.

She says we’ve had that damned thing fifteen years.  You will go buy a new one, today and toss that one.

She was right, again.

Oh my goodness the new $300 electric rechargeable is better.  No gas, no mixing, no maintenance, quiet, eats up everything, even winds it’s own line and bumps itself.

Cheaper, than the old one as well.

If electric cars are this much better I want one.