I always get my notices, did you have 2 homes listed or something?
Although the tax collector is officially a state office, it is really
county by county so a lot depends on which county you live in. Lee has
always had a good tax collector. They make the tag process easier than
any place I have ever lived. You can usually transfer a title, buy
tags and get out the door in 10 minutes. They have a lot of offices.
For a while, before that had that many, they had a fleet of RVs that
would set up in various parking lots around town on a schedule what
was in the paper. That was really sweet. They used that data to decide
where to place offices.
BTW you must have been in a place where the cops were jerks. I always
call SW Florida "tags optional". I see cars all the time without them.
If the cops stop you and you have proof of insurance you will usually
just get a warning ticket. Tags on trailers are far less than
universal. There is no title and no insurance requirement.
This was in the mid -1990's...perhaps the renewals are handled better now.
In those days, the county mounties, like school teachers, were grossly
underpaid and the educational requirements were not very high. Teachers
also were paid peanutes. Hopefully, that has changed, too.
NE Florida was a strange place in many ways, especially for a
transplanted yankee like me. Charming, but backwards, which I attributed
in no small part to the religious fundies who controlled a lot and were
hungry to control more. I enjoyed our stay there, but I was glad to get
back to the civilized world.
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