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Old 03-24-2012, 09:14 AM
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Originally Posted by BlueStreak View Post
Think of all of the taxe revenue........Is the local economy really that strong, or are property valiues up just because the county assessor says so?

Dave
The reason that the land is valued higher than the house is that just about all of the vacant land hereabouts is disappearing under McMansions and what is left is even further out from DC.

I used to be that you needed a minimum of 3 acres to build out here, mainly because of the 10,000 sq ft septic drain field and a well. Then some genius, prodded no doubt by developers, came up with the idea of cluster housing with smaller lots, individual wells but a common septic system. Should have called it a clusterf**k.

There is nowt funnier than a city dweller and his/her first septic system. T'ain't like city sewers, you need to be careful of what you throw down the drains and it needs a packet of yeast once a month. Forget that crap they advertise on TV, first laundry load kills it. Well the clusterf**k 3 miles up the road had all these McMansions full of city folk. No one was on charge of the septic system and it backed up.
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