I fought the good fight in the name of everything that is fair and just, but alas, I have lost. The Town of New Chester has decided that my property is worth $14,643 per acre, four times the acreage value of neighbors' properties for miles around. The reason? Because I don't own as much of it as others do. The logic? Less property is always worth more than more property.
So, they have effectively elevated my property tax to four times the going rate of other acreage, without raising taxes. How fair is that?
- Quads, hailing from Grand Marsh Observatory atop Elk Castle Hill
EDIT:Ha ha ha ha! Yes indeed commenter, I think you're on to something, they are picking on me because of my fancy vehicles!
Maybe its because of the fancy vehicles in your driveway?!?!?
ReplyDeleteOHHHH sure, now show them that your SAVING your dollars by not buying fancy trucks. Where they could get your tax dollars that way.
ReplyDeleteHa ha! Yup. Turns out there are a couple nice things about it. For one, I can hold my head high and thumb my nose at all the neighbors because my place is valuable like the Taj Mahal compared to their places. There's are all like swampland! And, another thing, is that now I know how much this crappy falling down shack on an acre of dirt and weeds is supposed to be worth, I can sell it and buy TWO places in Necedah, where I'd rather be anyway.
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Too bad all that you say is true.Take a look at my shitty cars and truck.
ReplyDeleteI would love to buy a newer car but i would have to quit my job and go on welfare to get one.They drive better cars than i do.Tracie and I seen a few welfare people that drive better vehicles that we do.
The problem with Adams County, among many many other things, is that if you aren't on welfare/disability/social security or have a government job, then you don't make money in Adams County. You have to make money in any other county. It can't be done here, except for the ways I just mentioned.
ReplyDeleteThey chase the water bottling plant away, put a halt to plans for the aluminum foundry, stop the slaughter house from being built, and run the developers of the pig farming operation out on a rail! Then they sneakily raise taxes by pretending that the small pieces of taxable property is so "valuable", when in reality nobody in their right f*cking mind would ever want to live here, unless they were making their money by one of the earlier mentioned methods of income in Adams County. So you end up with Adams County's residents being either some type of government employee, on welfare/disability/social security, drive many miles everyday to work out of the county, or are dirt poor living on a valuable $14,643 per acre pile of Adams County crap with the roof caving in.
I think I can speak for most, if not all, of the townships in the county (except possibly for Rome which wanted to be annexed to Wood County, that tell you something?) when I say that the Town of New Chester has done absolutely nothing in the way of bringing industry and jobs here. If they did that, and were successful, then their perceived property values might become a reality, but until then it's all just lies and discrimination against the small residential land owner.
It's all a bunch of crap! They defeat a property tax raise every year down here, so they increase the value of your property every year to get the increase anyway. Seems criminal. They even have a clause here if you're 61 days late on your property tax, your land and house are confiscated and become the property of the state.
ReplyDeleteThat way they can say "see, we didn't raise your taxes, it's just that your property is soooo valuable." But try to sell it for that. I wonder if I could sell mine to the highest bidder and then sue the town for the difference between what I get and what they say I can get?
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