Cousin Eddie.
Posted on 08/08/2017 1:09:49 PM PDT by servo1969
“The sellers will still come out $millions to the good, and the homeowners will have no more tax bills. Everybody wins.”
Not so, the problem here is that instead of the street being apportioned to each adjoining property so that each resident pays his share of the city and county of SF’s property taxes, evidently the street was a separate taxable property. It does blow me away that the property taxes were only $14 per year. Looks like they have had a “special deal” on taxes for many, many years. Here in our neighborhood in the East Bay we live on a private road (seven homes) and each of us pays property taxes on the roadway which is simply an easement on each lot. On our acre and a half lot with a good-size home, property taxes are around $20,000 per year.
That seems an absurdly low amount, less than $1/year per homeowner. Can you get that kind of deal anywhere else in the city?
If I paid taxes there I would be livid...
You’re right, it’s called a “constructive easement!” I worked for a company in Palo Alto, CA where people routinely drove through our parking lot as a shortcut. The company finally posted security personnel several days a month and turned people around. It was an attempt to regain control over the constructive easement that they had tacitly allowed to be created.
Cousin Eddie.
Your taxes are way too high. The truth is you never really own a home if your paying property taxes.
An earlier article stated that the CPA who had originally handled paying this tax bill had not been used since the 1980’s, so my guess is that he’s “no longer around!”
This is the Perfect oppurtunity to make the First Climate Change Compatible community, NO VEHICULAR TRAFFIC OF ANY KIND, Walking and Bicycles ONLY.
To save the erf.
Or set up a toll booth.
I would guess the $14 bill would be the same if the sale holds.
Looking at the story it looks like the Homeowners Association did not pay the bill. Usually they issue a dire warning before they auction off the property, but maybe that did not happen.
Although these are San Francisco fat cats, I do not rejoice.
This is a system screw up.
What happened to them is ridiculous...but I cant feel much sympathy after watching how elite californian urban snobs favor enviormemtal policies that devastate farmers.
ROTFLMAO
I believe the owners have the responsibility to maintain mailing address with the county assessor for the express purpose of giving the assessor a way to send bills.
The assessor should have posted d notice on the street at the time of the action.
When I run property reports, there is always a mailing address for the owners which may or may not be the same as the address for the property.
Lastly they had an accounting firm and must have switched. the new firm had the responsibility to pay the tax bills, but ultimately the owners are responsible for what they hire the accountants to do.
35 mansion pay 40 cent a year each.
What a country!
yup - this is so priceless I love it
That I could see.
The street is gated, and it has been gated for 40 years. When DiFi lived there, they had a cop at the gate. Now, they have a security guard there. You and I (serfs) can’t enter because, as I was told by the guard, “It’s private property.”
Well now, ain’t that ironic? I couldn’t walk though because it’s “private property”, but somehow - AMAZINGLY - those great Dhimmicratic geniuses couldn’t figure out that they need to pay property tax on...PRIVATE PROPERTY.
BWA-HAHAHA!!! Auction the property off to the highest bidder, and let the residents eat cake!
PS: Bet the property tax is higher next year! BWA-HAHAHA!!
The residents probably have several implied easements.
Well, the homeowners should be able to rent a judge if they don’t want to buy one.
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