The deficit is going down

[Oerets]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Think of all of the tax revenue........Is the local economy really that strong, or are property values up just because the county assessor says so?

Dave

Happening there too I see. Guess it is nice to know I'm not alone.




Barney

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Oerets

Happening there too I see. Guess it is nice to know I'm not alone.




Barney

Been happening here for the last twenty years, or so. According to relatives, it's happening in Ohio now too. I wonder what causes that?

Dave

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

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.