The next day, I went to work and asked some coworkers that were native Virginians...they said, toss it. No one returns these things. If you do, the government will begin taxing personal property. YIKES!
Then, registered my auto that I purchased in Texas. Paid sales tax in Texas and registration so forth. The state assessed a personal property tax on my vehicle...every year! YIKES! again. Not once, but every year. The state did choose to throw out a bone..you could divide the payments in two. Pay half in Jan./half in June. If I remember correctly...it was close to $600 a year for a 96 Merc. cougar.
Co-workers telling me stories of personal property taxes on cars, ATV’s, RV’s, Boats.
Then you had to have a reg. tag, inspection tag which is not much different than Texas...cept, you also had to have a county tag. Gimmini Chriss-miss.
I'd looked into purchasing a modest lil home, rather than renting. Good grief. This was back in the mid 90’s. A small 1100 sq ft. “ranch home” (basically a lil box) was running $150K back then. YIKES once again.
Loved the area, very beautiful, very historical, but I had to get my seff back down to Texas.
When I got a tax statement the other day it included a reminder that I’m supposed to get a building permit to replace a water heater, furnace, or install new windows.
When I replace a water heater or furnace no one will need to know about it and I’m not going to add $100 or more to the cost of every window I put in.