property taxes are a crime....i watch my wifes grandparents lose their little cottage on a lake (prior to michigans headlee amendment) people started buying up the little cottages and building very large mansion type homes on the lake.. their taxes shot up so much they could no longer afford to live in their PAID FOR retirement home... property taxes are a crime..
“property taxes are a crime....i watch my wifes grandparents lose their little cottage on a lake (prior to michigans headlee amendment) people started buying up the little cottages and building very large mansion type homes on the lake...”
Yea, here in Texas we freeze property taxes when you turn 65. We figure it makes more sense to keep old people in houses that are much, much, bigger than they need (since the kids are gone), and make the young families live like crap, having to cover a growing portion of their (the old peoples’ reduced) property tax.
We call that ‘fairness’ here.