"Larry" wrote in message
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DSK wrote in news:MkKCf.1437$fZ2.925
@bignews4.bellsouth.net:

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


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.

When some yuppie asks me what yacht I have, I tell 'em an Oakwood 70 at
Evanston Marina...(c; "Oh, a 70! Very nice..." Many 70' yachts at City
Marina never leave their docks, either.

Just like a fine old boat that depreciates like mad, my Oakwood 70 paid
$128 to the county last year....but $89 of that was for garbage pickup so
the taxes on my house were quite cheap...and dropping. I don't give a
damn
what the millage rate is. Any millage rate times 0 is still 0...(c;


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

L8R

Skip, homeless (well, sold them, not aboard yet)

--
Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig KI4MPC
http://tinyurl.com/384p2 The vessel as Tehamana, as we bought her

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

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

DSK wrote in news:I4NCf.29095$C%3.15294
@bignews2.bellsouth.net:

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.



Yes, this is not caused by any concern for the community, but concern for
the TAXES COLLECTED. Taxes on a MH go down every year and even our best
tax bureaucrats haven't figured out how to juggle the books to make them
increase.....so the "best course" for this pig bureaucracy is to have them
banned, for the good of the community, of course.

There's been a dangerous backlash from all this here. Some politicians
have, to their surprise, found out that people living the "good life"
without the ever-increasing tax load VOTE and a couple of them got their
fingers (and other appendages) burned the last few times around. The
"course" has changed again, at least for the short term, as they try to
figure out how to go through the back door....(c;

It's best not to mention "banning mobile homes" in Council Chambers, at the
moment.