Beating the Property Tax Curse
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007The State of Montana’s revenue department folks have decided my house’s escalated appraised value makes ME worth more dinero than Guam’s GNP. Unless I sell the home I’ve spent years scrimping and saving to build, I’ll never see all that extra moolah. Yet, those property taxes continue to go sky high.
But let’s cut to the chase. Folks getting off the bus with more loot than Fidel Castro are causing those skyrocketing home values. They purchase renovated chicken coup homes for sums verging on what we spent convicting “Scooter” Libby before releasing him. Now I don’t blame people for wanting to live in Montana. It’s a great place. It just p….. (rhymes with hisses) me off that I have to suffer the consequences of inflated home values. (more…)