A Boring Dystopia

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‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ (www.yahoo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not entirely unsympathetic since property values have skyrocketed ridiculously mostly due to the super rich and hedge funds buying up housing like it's candy.

However, these people got an assessment for doing some renovations without replacing the walls or a major overhaul of the property, then promptly added a whole second floor to the building when they said they were just replacing the roof. They gambled that the assessors wouldn't take note and lost.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

yeah, and the guy was professionally working in the real estate space... feels like they are in the "find out" stage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

they should know better if they are building in a disaster prone area.