The taxes on
our modest suburban house have more than doubled in the past
twelve years.


"Larry" wrote
I always find it amusing that people who will live on a sailboat, which
less face it is just an RV with no wheels once you look past the nostalgia
factor, seem to have these huge tax lien houses, but would NEVER consider
living in my comfortable mobile home, which is nicer and has more room
than
a Hatteras 70 because it doesn't have two engine rooms.

Apparently, for many the "romance" of living on a boat makes
up for the inconveniences. OTOH I have lived in mobile
homes, and perhaps a newer one would not be so bad, but the
ones I lived in were NOT comfortable. Drafty at best. But at
least mobile homes don't have a holding tank to pump out.

Another thing to bear in mind is that fewer & fewer
communities even allow mobile homes. Sooner or later they'll
decide that your lot "should" have a McMansion on it, and
tax accordingly.


Skip Gundlach wrote:
Ah - but perhaps the land it's on has some of these duplication
(exponential?) problems about tax bases?


I dunno, there used to be a lot of back-country crossroads
around Charleston, haven't driven around down there in a
while. There used to be places people had built houses... or
stashed mobile homes... that weren't even officially
considered "land" much less taxed.

DSK