Guest guest Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 Many cities put their property tax database on-line. If your city does that, you can go to it and search by your address to see hwo much your house has been assessed at (for tax purposes). S S I'd be interested in knowing just how <br> much my home was worth!<br> <br> Pam<br> _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 > Many cities put their property tax database on-line. If your city does that, you can go to it and search by your address to see hwo much your house has been assessed at (for tax purposes). It is easily available information for just about anyone who knows the address. http://www.zillow.com/ Dana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 Huh. I'm not sure if I'm intrigued or disturbed to see a satellite aerial photo of my home. I think I even see the dog eating her own poop in the back yard. The assessment is off... way off. All of our area home's assessed values just went up 20% this past year. They say it was to reflect the true market value (which it does), and not to generate more tax revenue. Ho Ho Ho. Less for me. More for them. Pam > > Many cities put their property tax database on-line. If your city > does that, you can go to it and search by your address to see hwo much > your house has been assessed at (for tax purposes). > > > It is easily available information for just about anyone who knows the > address. > > http://www.zillow.com/ > > Dana > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 Same thing happened here, Pam, all market values up 20%, but we just sold our last home in a very competitive market we could not get this 20% extra that they had assessed. We put our next home in a forest restoration program, we grow trees here ya know, but don't have to sell them. It's available to anyone with over 10 acres and cuts your property taxes a whopping 80%, Ho Ho Ho, to me who found this program on the internet. [ ] Re: OT: house worth Huh. I'm not sure if I'm intrigued or disturbed to see a satellite aerial photo of my home. I think I even see the dog eating her own poop in the back yard. The assessment is off... way off. All of our area home's assessed values just went up 20% this past year. They say it was to reflect the true market value (which it does), and not to generate more tax revenue. Ho Ho Ho. Less for me. More for them. Pam > > Many cities put their property tax database on-line. If your city > does that, you can go to it and search by your address to see hwo much > your house has been assessed at (for tax purposes). > > > It is easily available information for just about anyone who knows the > address. > > http://www.zillow.com/ > > Dana > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 > > I have been trying to find the least polluted place to live. Any advice? That's something I think about a lot too. I just finished " Our Stolen Future " , which is mainly about hormone disruptors (pesticides, plastic constituents, other various chemicals) and it looks to me as though the whole world is toxic now. Scientists were looking for a clean control group and checked out Inuits and they were just as filled with toxic chemicals as Americans. The book is really really good, if pretty depressing. It's cool reading stories of how scientists figure stuff out. And the authors say repeatedly how slow medicine and science are to believe in new ideas -- something we at a-m know a little about. Nell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 > > Huh. I'm not sure if I'm intrigued or disturbed to see a satellite > aerial photo of my home. If you " only " want to view a satellite photo, you can do it pretty much everywhere, even on google maps. But zillow gives values also, among other things. It is one of the sites used by the real estate and mortgage industry, at least around here. > The assessment is off... way off. I believe it gives the FMV, not the assessed value. It is not 100% current tho, might be a year or so old. In CA, because of what we call " Prop 13 " , assessed values can only increase 2% per year, unless the property is sold or certain other triggers happen. So our assessed values are usually very different than FMV, especially in recent years because our property values have skyrocketed, but the assessed value can only increase 2% per year. My home's current FMV value is 3x its assessed value. Without Prop 13, I would have to sell it because I could not afford the increased taxes. Dana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 It's more than two years old, my new " two year old " house/property is not on here. [ ] Re: OT: house worth > > Huh. I'm not sure if I'm intrigued or disturbed to see a satellite > aerial photo of my home. If you " only " want to view a satellite photo, you can do it pretty much everywhere, even on google maps. But zillow gives values also, among other things. It is one of the sites used by the real estate and mortgage industry, at least around here. > The assessment is off... way off. I believe it gives the FMV, not the assessed value. It is not 100% current tho, might be a year or so old. In CA, because of what we call " Prop 13 " , assessed values can only increase 2% per year, unless the property is sold or certain other triggers happen. So our assessed values are usually very different than FMV, especially in recent years because our property values have skyrocketed, but the assessed value can only increase 2% per year. My home's current FMV value is 3x its assessed value. Without Prop 13, I would have to sell it because I could not afford the increased taxes. Dana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 > > Our forest manager (never thought I would have one of these) told us according to the lichen on our trees we have very low pollution where we live (rural Ohio), but you have to like snow, which I do, but not everyone does. I'm sure living among the Amish is beneficial as they do not use car engines either, just horses. > > I always thought Montana might be less polluted and less populated also. The problem is that the places that aren't making pollution are getting contaminated by air dispersal and ocean currents. Arctic polar bears are highly contaminated because they're at the top of the food chain and have a lot of fat (like us!), even though they live as far as you can get from anything industrial. Unfortunately air quality is about wind as much as anything -- here in VA I'm in a non-industrial area but the air quality isn't good because everything from the Midwest blows right to us. I really recommend the book, if you can stand a little more of that helpless feeling. And at least you see there are some scientists who get it. Nell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 What was the website where you found out about the forest program? Places like Montana have/had lots of mining... S S <Ladyshrink111@<wbr>...> wrote:<br> ><br> > Our forest manager (never thought I would have one of these) told us<br> according to the lichen on our trees we have very low pollution where<br> we live (rural Ohio), but you have to like snow, which I do, but not<br> everyone does. I'm sure living among the Amish is beneficial as they<br> do not use car engines either, just horses. <br> > <br> > I always thought Montana might be less polluted and less populated also.<br> <br> The problem is that the places that aren't making pollution are<br> getting contaminated by air dispersal and ocean currents. Arctic polar<br> bears are highly contaminated because they're at the top of the food<br> chain and have a lot of fat (like us!), even though they live as far<br> as you can get from anything industrial.<br> <br> Unfortunately air quality is about wind as much as anything -- here in<br> VA I'm in a non-industrial area but the air quality isn't good because<br> everything from the Midwest blows right to us.<br> <br> I really recommend the book, if you can stand a little more of that<br> helpless feeling. And at least you see there are some scientists who<br> get it.<br> <br> Nell<br> _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 , It was the " CAUV Forest Management Program " but honestly can't remember what the acronym means (Not sure about the C, but the other initials are Agricultural Use Valuation). And I don't know if this is a federal program or one specific to Ohio. Try googling that and if nothing comes up holler back at me and I will dig out the paperwork. Oh to be one of those really organized filing people! [ ] Re: OT: house worth What was the website where you found out about the forest program? Places like Montana have/had lots of mining... S S <Ladyshrink111@<wbr>...> wrote:<br> ><br> > Our forest manager (never thought I would have one of these) told us<br> according to the lichen on our trees we have very low pollution where<br> we live (rural Ohio), but you have to like snow, which I do, but not<br> everyone does. I'm sure living among the Amish is beneficial as they<br> do not use car engines either, just horses. <br> > <br> > I always thought Montana might be less polluted and less populated also.<br> <br> The problem is that the places that aren't making pollution are<br> getting contaminated by air dispersal and ocean currents. Arctic polar<br> bears are highly contaminated because they're at the top of the food<br> chain and have a lot of fat (like us!), even though they live as far<br> as you can get from anything industrial.<br> <br> Unfortunately air quality is about wind as much as anything -- here in<br> VA I'm in a non-industrial area but the air quality isn't good because<br> everything from the Midwest blows right to us.<br> <br> I really recommend the book, if you can stand a little more of that<br> helpless feeling. And at least you see there are some scientists who<br> get it.<br> <br> Nell<br> _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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