[Vigilanteman]

We have a modest home (1100 square feet) on a 1/5th acre lot in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The value has barely climbed 4% per year, sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less, since we bought it shortly after the start of the new millennium.

During the craziness last summer, it suddenly jumped from $150K to $180K. Just people wanting to get out of the craziness of our nearest big city, Pittsburgh, about an hour to the northwest. We even had people calling and writing with cash offers.

Since China's puppet emperor took office, it has risen to a modest $190K in the past year or so. After the county delivered a stinging rebuke to the Democrat party in the election earlier in the month (ever D swept out of office, including a couple of decent ones for whom I actually voted), Zillow now has us at $220K.

That's how crazy things are getting, people. It doesn't hurt that we have at least four Pennsylvania state troopers living in our neighborhood and parking their cruisers in the driveway.

[Osage Orange]

You voted for a Dim.....??

[Elsie]

... it has risen to a modest $190K in the past year or so.

POLITICIAN: We are NOT raising your taxes!
ME: Not the RATE! but when my home's 'VALUE' goes up; so do my assessed taxes.