Posted on 08/07/2004 4:46:27 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak
He claimed no one staying there was paying rent and that they were all family -- though it turns out his "family" didn't have kitchen privileges. It ended up in the newspaper when the home caught on fire. The story quoted one "cousin" as saying she wanted to go to school here and saw an ad for the room in an Arizona newspaper. Code enforcement officers had been in the structure prior to the fire and said the place was such a maze that even the owner was confused showing them the place.
Rereading your post, maybe it's the number "17" that caught my eye. The house I'm referring to had "17" bedrooms ... forget how many people!!
My property taxes this year are $6000 :(
Good Gravy! I hope you're not paying those taxes in that boarding house district of which you speak!
I'm a renter living in one of the many designated residential landfill areas (i.e., where other areas dispose of what they don't want to come in contact with on a neighborly basis). As longtime renters (by choice or otherwise ... speaking out-of-turn for several close neighbors), we see ourselves debased by socially engineered tactics. We (as a neighborhood) surprise the city from time to time voting in people no one took seriously. In fact, our local city debates are way better than anything Hollyweird could conjure. :)
By today's standards, we aren't even middle class ... though working. Maybe we're the "invisible ones" spoken of in previous election campaigns. We are active and we are concerned about our quality of life. I hope we make our mark this time out!
Yes that is our property tax :sigh:
If YOU are paying THOSE taxes in an area similar to mine ... GET THEE to many CITY meetings ... post haste!
BUMP for an alarming article. Let's call it what it is - invasion!
Don't worry --- the rest of us are catching up. I live in an area where salaries are actually falling --- but the schools and the county hospital manage to get a tax hike every year. Someone's obviously got to pay for everything.
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Tancredo is one of the few politicians who truly care about this country.
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