Ancestral home for sale

[footfootfoot]

It may have some sort of bad juju or feng shui. There is a corner near my ancestral home that had at least 25 businesses in the same number of years. On the opposite corner another business, a deli, lasted over 40 years and made the owners quite wealthy. It was as though the other corner was cursed.

Where I am now there is a building that has had about 6 different businesses in it in the past 15 years that have all failed miserably, and long periods of vacancy. Popular opinion is that it is cursed. (unrelated to popular opinion, but by curious coincidence, the building is about 1/10 of a mile from a, recently discovered while excavating, native American site. The excavation had to be stopped while the area was mined for artifacts and so on.)

I think looking for explanations is pointless, shit happens that makes no sense but our brains want to create order and explanations. Got religion?

[BigV]

I wonder what the tax bill for the property amounts to, roughly.

[xoxoxoBruce]

That might be tricky, as it's been in the family forever. As soon as a property is sold the assessors rise from the cemetery at midnight to haunt the new owners.

[BigV]

yes; wouldn't the property tax be some percentage of the assessed value, which should be something in the neighborhood of the asking price, no?

[lumberjim]

Google Wayne county tax parcels.

[glatt]

According to Zillow, the assessed tax value in 2013 was $100,300.

It's in Clinton Township and it looks like their real estate taxes are called millage rates. According to this chart I found, it's about 2 cents per dollar of assessed value. Or $2k per year. BUt maybe I'm reading it all wrong.

[xoxoxoBruce]

That sounds about right.

The term is derived from the root word mill, which means "thousand". Millage rates are often expressed mathematically with the symbol %o, as in 1%o, which is one part per thousand, or 0.1%. Millage rates for individual properties are usually found on the property deed itself.

In PA, millage rates vary for school taxes, city/township taxes, and county taxes, but all are times the assessed value. It's makes me growl when a $3100 school tax bill, and a $10 head tax(for schools) bill, arrive on the same day.

[glatt]

I saw that $10 head tax and wondered about that. Are they charging you $10 for your head, or $10 for the head of each student in your township? If it's for each student, that could add up ridiculously fast.

[xoxoxoBruce]

$10 dollars for your head as a way of raising school tax on renters and anyone living in town who doesn't own property. Bullshit, where do they think the money the landlord pays in school property tax with, comes from.

[glatt]

How much does this gentleman have to pay?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Nothing, as we're gonna lynch him right quick.