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Re: Want to build a very small and simple deck in my backyard - what are the steps
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Well, here's my take.

1st, if your friend isn't a licensed NJ contractor you're not going to get a permit.

2nd, assuming he is, go down to the 30 Montgomery 4th floor permits office and throw yourself on the mercy of the court. Tell them what you want to do and ask what you need. You'll probably need to file a drawing, but whether that can be done by your bud or needs to be by a licensed architect is a question for them.

3rd, return to 30 Montogomery with what you need, including the contractors license # and address, and apply for the permit.

4th, build, you'll have to have several inspections like a footing inspection and framing inspection.

Sooooo, bend over for JC, then enjoy your deck!!

Brian_em, maybe you hit shale in the Heights or JS, but downtown it's all mud! They just pound 20' piles straight in around here. All the floors here sag in the older homes because none of the center pillars have proper footings and have sunk in the mud.

Posted on: 2008/2/12 2:12
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Re: Newark couple left a loaded handgun in open view in their SUV at BJs while shopped at Newport Ce
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NNJR wrote:
Sounds like the tow truck company enforcing the quality of life crimes that we should expect.

Just imagine how many more of these infractions would be caught by simply enforcing all QOL laws.

good job by the tow truck company.


um, I agree good job by the tow truck company, but no matter how you slice it, patrolling a private parking lot for non-shoppers is not a public QOL issue


I think the point NNJR is making is in reference wishing the police to enforce "quality of life" things like noise or traffic stops, where something like a blown stop sign ticket leads to other things like warrants, weed and weapons.

Posted on: 2008/2/8 0:46
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NYC seat belt ticket:$40, Surcharge:$50! WTF is with the surcharge stuff?
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I was waved over at 37th and 9th by a cop and given a "no seat belt" citation. Fair caught I suppose. Now, it's been more than a decade since I've gotten a moving violation anywhere, much less NYC, so I was startled to see a "surcharge" that was more than the fine! What's the story? It seems pretty fishy to me. I tried googling without any luck.

Posted on: 2008/2/7 23:17
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Re: Violent Home Invasion - Coles & Monmouth
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jediweapon wrote:

The old Yoshihiro "Me No English" Hattori chestnut, eh? Let's see that dates from when exactly? Ah, yes, 1992.

For every foreign exchange student who doesn't understand the word "freeze!" (and presumably never saw a single Hollywood action film), there are tens of thousands of incidents every year where law abiding citizens save their lives when confronted by gun-wielding criminals in their homes and neighborhoods.


Yes, lets use statistics rather than anecdotes, however futile arguing this with you might be. You and other fearful gun toting folks are like someone building a house in the valley bottom out of fear of lightning, only that a flood is far more likely, just like its far more likely your gun will hurt someone you know rather than an assailant. And note that half of all gun deaths are suicides, over 900 per year are children.

* In 2004, 29,569 people in the United States died from firearm-related deaths ? 11,624 (39%) of those were murdered; 16,750 (57%) were suicides; 649 (2.2%) were accidents; and in 235 (.8%) the intent was unknown. 6 In comparison, 33,651 Americans were killed in the Korean War and 58,193 Americans were killed in the Vietnam War.7
* For every firearm fatality in the United States in 2005, there were estimated to be more than two non-fatal firearm injuries.8
* In 2004, firearms were used to murder 56 people in Australia, 184 people in Canada, 73 people in England and Wales, 5 people in New Zealand, and 37 people in Sweden.9 In comparison, firearms were used to murder 11,344 in the United States.10
* In 2005, there were only 143 justifiable homicides by private citizens using handguns in the United States.11
* For every time a gun is used in a home in a legally-justifiable shooting [note that every self-defense is legally justifiable] there are 22 criminal, unintentional, and suicide-related shootings.17
* The presence of a gun in the home triples the risk of homicide in the home.18
* The presence of a gun in the home increases the risk of suicide fivefold.19

source

Posted on: 2008/2/5 3:08
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Re: Violent Home Invasion - Coles & Monmouth
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JohnR1975 wrote:
I found a similar story that happen in Las Vegas, except this one had a different ending.

Police say 'good guys won' in home break-in, shooting....


Hey, remember this one! This gun owner sure knew what to do to trick or treaters! Guns in America kill tens of thousands each year, very few of which are perps in action.

Grief Spans Sea as Gun Ends a Life Mistakenly
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage ... 63BF932A15753C1A964958260

Seeing the Halloween decorations at the Peairs house, they stopped and knocked. Mrs. Peairs answered and, startled, quickly shut the door. She called for her husband to get his gun, according to the sheriff's office. The boys walked to the carport door, where Mr. Peairs appeared with a gun. He told them to "freeze."

But Mr. Hattori did not understand. He spoke little English. "He don't know what the hell freeze means," Colonel Barnett said. Mr. Hattori kept moving toward Mr. Peairs, who shot him at close range.

Posted on: 2008/2/4 21:13
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Re: Violent Home Invasion - Coles & Monmouth
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GrovePath wrote:
I agree that it could well be a random act of violence - but it is not crazy to wonder if perhaps a friend of the victim might well know these attackers -- it is just such an odd case -- there is nothing wrong with wondering if her house was targeted for some reason after all the thugs did ransack it looking for something. It just feels like there is more to this story -- sure it could just be random -- but people are not jerks just because they are left wondering why it happened to her. I hope the victim and her kids are doing well and I hope they get these guys!


I concur with that feeling that there's more to this story somehow. Randomly breaking in the door of an occupied house and holding a family hostage is not a standard "low hanging fruit" M.O. of the burglar class. It's real high risk, because as someone said, it only takes seconds to call 911, and if you're caught the penalties are dramatically higher than plain B&E.

And please don't anyone take this wrong, but that row of houses aren't the most obviously wealthy in the hood. The only obvious thing they have going for them as targets is no neighbors across the street, but there are plenty of places in HP with no residential structures across the street.

But there's no doubt that on the face of it, the incident is terrifying.

Posted on: 2008/2/4 1:56
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Re: What kind of neighborhood is the Heights in Jersey City?
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Beacon is not considered a prime area of the heights, but that's a moving target these days anyway. It does have the nice advantage of being walking distance to the Journal Sq PATH and the Pershing Field Park. Also, if you stick around long enough the reservoir is slated to be turned into a nature park. You are within walking distance of all the shopping and restaurants on Central Ave, Journal Sq and even a little further, Downtown.

Relax. It may not ultimately be your taste, but it likely won't be a disaster unless you luck into neighbors from hell, but that can happen anywhere. My new Downtown neighbors threw a keg party last week, shouting and singing drinking songs outdoors till all hours. You don't have to be a poor to be an asshole.

Posted on: 2008/2/1 0:47
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Re: hitchhiking through Holland Tunnel? has anyone done it?
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Try a cardboard sign that says "Jersey City".

Posted on: 2008/1/26 20:45
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Re: Developer: Project 'stalled' by denial of abatement change
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Even discussing this is ridiculous. There should simply be no more abatements downtown. The pump has been primed already!! If developing normal tax base property on Washington and 6th really isn't yet economical, there's something seriously wrong.

A question I've had for I while is: isn't there anyone at the county or state level holding the leash on our ability to hand out these abatements? The city loves them since they rip off the schools and county in favor of the city, plus give a upfront payoff that makes the sitting mayor's budget look better. But where are the grownups saying you can't do this indefinitely or the property tax system will crash?

Posted on: 2008/1/25 20:46
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Re: Plan Green Expo at Liberty Park
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jediweapon wrote:
Oh wow! It's just great to see PSE&G funding such a worthy, affirmative and eco-friendly community inititive!

What a crock.


Agreed. A few years ago when even Con-Ed was giving incentives for replacing old windows and buying efficient heaters and appliances, PSE&G was giving nada.

Posted on: 2008/1/24 22:01
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Re: NY Times - When Does a Housing Slump Become a Bust?
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TaZMaNiO wrote:
I knew about that quite awhile ago and my opinion remains the same - Goldman Sachs engaged in criminal behavior when they advised their clients to hold firm, and then shorted the market.

Of course my opinion means less than nothing (I think all shorting is akin to gambling and has no place in capital investment markets), doubley-so my opinion is meaningless now that the Treasury Dept. is more-or-less a defacto dept. of Goldman Sachs...

Have fun kids!

P.S. The US is skating dangerously close to losing ALL credibility in economic and world policy matters.


Please explain why shorting is more like gambling than any other form of equity investing? The markets as a whole move slowly, but individual stocks are more volatile, with those going up balanced by those going down. Yin/yang, you know?

Personally I think the day trading is the real roulette wheel of the wall street casino, the pure gambling. A friend married a day trader, I think he's no different than a guy playing the ponies who thinks he can't lose because he studies the bloodlines and such.

Posted on: 2008/1/23 7:18
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Re: "It is madness in search of war." - Things going 'great,' says Bush
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brian_em wrote:
Brewster.
completely off topic. BUT
What's the deal with all the cat avitars on this site lately?


Dunno, are there? I've had mine for 1 1/2 years. I think there was 1 or 2 others at the time.

Posted on: 2008/1/23 7:07
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Re: "It is madness in search of war." - Things going 'great,' says Bush
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Yeah, there's worse people among earth's 6 billion than GWB, but they're not the leader of the worlds most powerful nation, a fact that still makes me queasy after 7 years.

And GWB didn't cause 9-11, but he and his arrogant, jingoistic and greedy chickenhawks fertilized the ground for decades more of islamic terror by using 9-11 as an excuse for the neocons long desired war on Iraq. Had they simply finished what they started in Afghanistan, our standing in the world and our prospects for future peace would be much brighter. But even that was too much, and Afghanistan is again a disaster.

The narratives that get sold on conservative news channels are amazing, but the emperor still has no clothes.

Posted on: 2008/1/23 3:53
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Re: NY Times - When Does a Housing Slump Become a Bust?
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They actually have a factor for the discounting on the property, basing it on sales value, it's currently 28%. The reason for this is the distortionary effect of reval cycle. Since people with long owned property would be paying peanuts based on old sales prices, they raise the tax rate, while at the same time discounting the assessments on newer structures because if they taxed them at full price and rate it would be astronomical. In a reval they eliminate the discounts and lower the actual tax rate.

Yeah, it's a f**ked up system, but your tax estimate was off by 72%, $4457/yr sounds more like it, huh?

TAZ: EDIT YOUR POST!!! YOU POOCHED THE FORMATTING WITH YOUR CUT AND PASTE!!

Posted on: 2008/1/22 5:34
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Re: JC Real Estate Market Recent Activity
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G_Elkind wrote:
Recovery in the real estate depends almost solely on the availability of liquidity and credit in the market. The sources of both appear to be drying up world-wide in the nearest term. Time will tell how deep the pause will be.


Geoff, I know this is near your area of expertise, but I would have thought the deluge of cash raining on oil producers would have to go offshore again immediately, they can't domestically invest anywhere near that much, no? That's why there's pictures in the paper of sheiks planning fantasy cities, because they have more cash than they know what to do with.

Posted on: 2008/1/22 2:31
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Re: "It is madness in search of war." - Things going 'great,' says Bush
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AvantiGroup wrote:
Top ten dumbest things our commander-in-chief ever said. Truly a testament to his idiocy.

http://politicalhumor.about.com/cs/georgewbush/a/top10bushisms.htm


Those ARE truly a testament to his idiocy, and his 2 elections are truly a testament to the idiocy and avarice of the electorate. I can understand how the ignorant bible thumping yahoos in flyover country got gulled by the snake oil show, but the willingness of the educated financial elite to entrust our country to that moron has always boggled me.

I had one of my rare conversations last week with my gazillionaire Private Capitalist brother, who admitted Bush's 2nd term was a disaster. When I asked what was so great about his first term besides cutting taxes on his Greenwich and Hampton crowd, I got nothing but smoke. They sold the future of their country to get from rich to filthy rich hereditary oligarchs, while the rest of the country sold their own futures to party like rock stars on borrowed money because their leaders told them they deserved to have a good time.

I despair, and I wonder when 60" LCD screens will start turning up in hock shops?

Posted on: 2008/1/22 2:17
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Re: "It is madness in search of war." - Things going 'great,' says Bush
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TaZMaNiO wrote:
For those NOT acquainted with ace-in-da-hole U$ FEDGOV Policy, war is THE racket used to grease the wheels of the insider-cronyism practiced within the District of Criminals, which in case you didn't notice is on the verge of collapse:

Fullblown Panic

Knees knocked last week from sea to shining sea as the shape-shifting monster of economic reality cut a swathe of destruction through the markets and financial ranks....


Wow, that was great, like Paul Krugman on a drunken rant.

The American Economy has no clothes.

Posted on: 2008/1/21 20:31
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Re: landlord blackmailing to sue, for vacting as lease come to end -help!!
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rajraj wrote:
6)If i find a renter who can stay till Feb 16th, can i get my security deposit back ?


This whole thing is getting stupid. Your landlady is an idiot for wanting to play hardball in her illegal glass house instead of just sucking it up and trying to get a new tenant for Feb. The 1st 2 weeks of the month usually suck for getting tenants to take a lease anyway, everyone's "still looking". If she tries to keep your security or create an eviction record for nonpayment of Feb you can haul her into court where her property will get scrutinized. Mutual Assured Destruction.

Since the legalities seem moot due to an illegal property, I'll answer #6 as a landlord: I'll never let a tenant try to find/choose my next tenant. I've been in this spot and even if I don't lose a months rent it's a PITA. I'm choosy about my tenants but the outgoing leasebreaking tenant just wants anyone and isn't very patient about the landlord rejecting people. I insist on showing apartments even though it's time consuming, since it is when you get a feel for who the person is. This results in very little landlord-tenant conflict in our properties.

Posted on: 2008/1/21 18:10
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Re: Savas - Polish Cafeteria Opens on Grove Street
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This IS great news! Comfort food of my heritage! Do they have hot borscht?

Just before Tanya's closed I got the new owner to do a table at the Hamilton Park Festival. It seemed pretty successful, I wonder if the owner of Savas can be convinced? It's been a real struggle to get our small local ethnic restaurants to come, you'd think they'd love to get the exposure.

Posted on: 2008/1/20 21:37
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Re: Earl Morgan's Corner: That $25G donation had 'nothing to do' with fire promotions
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shane612 wrote:
There are a few of us old dinosaurs left who haved lived in JC all our lives. One can take shots at the cops, there are issues there (although there a plenty of good ones for sure). The fire department, however, has always been fantastic. Too many chiefs? Maybe....I never realized it before. But if you ever need the fire-fighters of JC, and I hope you don't, you will see a professional and proud group that responds fast and thoroughly.
Before the cynics have a field day with this, let me at least state that I'm not a fire-fighter, just a citizen who has seen the department in action and heard from many others who needed them.


That sounds all great, support the FD, the PD, and the troops in Iraq!!

But, are you a veteran? What would you think of the fighting ability of an army composed of 28% Colonels and generals? Sounds like what you'd find in a banana republic, which is what JC looks like way too often.

Posted on: 2008/1/19 18:57
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Re: landlord blackmailing to sue, for vacting as lease come to end -help!!
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Xerxes wrote:
My last lease renewal states clearly:
"You have a period of 30 days from receipt of this offer in which to accept. If this agreement is not returned within 30 days, we will asssume that you are vacating your apartment at the expiration of your Lease and your apartment will be up for rent."
I think this is common language.

This clearly states that my lease termination is AUTOMATIC at the end of the lease period if I take no action. Any assumption of continuation of the lease with no action by the tenant is preposterous...there is no such thing as a lease by default.
If indeed no action is required to re-let for another term then a lease would continue INDEFINITELY even though it is never signed again.


That clause of automatic termination may be in contradiction of the state law and illegal. But what certainly seems illegal is the application of the state law concerning notice and autorenewal in the case of a building with violations of it's Certificate of Occupancy. It sounds like the last thing she would want is to be in court over this.

She's also likely in a catch 22 regarding "owner occupancy". If she claims occupancy in a 3 family, the state tenant laws don't apply, but I'll bet anything her mortgage and insurance are based on owner occupancy.

Posted on: 2008/1/19 18:42
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Re: Earl Morgan's Corner: That $25G donation had 'nothing to do' with fire promotions
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Amazing. More than 1 in 4 firefighters is a chief or higher. All chiefs and no indians. Assuming there's another chunk that are desk jockeys, just who actually fights the fires? Next you'll hear that they're understaffed....

Posted on: 2008/1/18 16:59
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Re: landlord blackmailing to sue, for vacting as lease come to end -help!!
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BrightMoment wrote:

LSNJ is "Legal Services of New Jersey" and on their home page it states: http://www.lsnj.org/

Legal Services of New Jersey (LSNJ), an independent, non-profit organization, coordinates the statewide Legal Services system. LSNJ strives to ensure equal access to justice under law to all people of New Jersey, providing free legal assistance to low-income people in civil matters.



BM, it does NOT say that on www.lsnjlaw.org, the site Pink linked.

Also, just to clarify to RajRaj, we think he owes all of Feb, not just 2 weeks. the month to month is for whole months, regardless of the 30 days notice clause. He is free to move out on the first, but will still owe the landlady the rent for the month. It is NOT legal to pay that using the security deposit, doing so will risk legal action on her part, and you don't want an eviction on your record if you're staying in NJ.

Posted on: 2008/1/18 16:49
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Re: landlord blackmailing to sue, for vacting as lease come to end -help!!
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r_pinkowitz wrote:
I just checked this site, your answer is in this section, check the language and the terms of your lease and make sure it's in compliance with NJ laws, if it is you may just have to pay the extra 1/2 month, but I would still call the number Brewster gave you, and double check,
http://www.lsnjlaw.org/english/placei ... hapterfive/index.cfm#5end


Yes, according to that site he's on the hook for all of Feb, but who the hell are LSNJ? I am annoyed by acronymic organizations that even in their "about us" page don't spell it out, this isn't the 1st time I've seen it.

I'm not sure it's applicable to this case, but the state anti-eviction statute does not apply to owner occupied building of 3 or less units.

Posted on: 2008/1/18 5:27
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Re: landlord blackmailing to sue, for vacting as lease come to end -help!!
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rajraj wrote:
I had a 6 months lease and its coming to an end on Jan 31st 2008 .

I have told my landlord on Jan 14th 2008 that iam vacating on Jan 31st .

The landlord says that the term on the lease is to notify the tenant/landlord one month in advance

She said the vacation notice will be considered on Jan 14th and i can vacate on Feb 15th .Also I have to pay the rent for February month.

If i dont agree , i will be sued in court .

Please help !!


Hmm, is vacating at the end of the lease implied unless the lease is explicitly renewed? Or does the automatic renewal statute take precedence? I don't think this is a simple question. You might try calling the city's office of Tenant Landlord Relations, 201 547 5127.

Even if you owe the rent for Feb, that doesn't mean you can't move out until then. You could be 3 months late and a landlord still can't stop you from leaving.

If you were my tenant, I would show the place and try to get a new tenant for Feb to let you off the hook, but she's under no obligation to do so assuming she's right.

Posted on: 2008/1/18 3:57
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Re: Jersey City schools may lose $111 million - property taxes will rise?
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alb wrote:
It is absurd to think of a struggling single mom who lives in a little, overpriced house in the suburbs subsidizing pre-K education at P.S. 37 for the children of well-paid Newport residents who don't directly or indirectly pay much to support the schools. (A few years ago, when I went to a birthday party at Newport, I met a bunch of parents who were sending their children to the P.S. 37 pre-K, so, no, the parents there do not send all of their children to Stevens or other private schools.)


I wonder what it would take to actually get the demographic info for the schools by zip. You know they'd stonewall you right off the bat. Maybe a FOIA request?

As for where our money actually goes, in August the JJ reported that in Jersey City, more than half of the city's employees earned at least $77,448 last year, the highest median salary among the county's 12 municipalities, and well above the median for all of NJ residents. That's more than many people with a Masters degree and decades of experience. It's a government run for the benefit of it's employees, not the public.

Posted on: 2008/1/9 1:15
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Re: Jersey City schools may lose $111 million - property taxes will rise?
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JPhurst wrote:
The reason the city is currently promoting PILOTS for large development is not to encourage investment. It is because under the abatement formula, most of the payment goes directly to the city, whereas property taxes are split between the city, county and school district. A few years ago Jersey City agreed to re-do the formula to increase the amount to the county because some other Hudson County municipalities sued Jersey City, claiming that the abatements were improperly depriving the county of revenue. But the school districts didn't get any more money.


Josh, doesn't the city also get lump sum up front payments as part of these deals? This allows the administrations to basically balance their books by taking revenue for today from the future, a sort of deficit spending.

Posted on: 2008/1/4 19:39
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Re: Jersey City schools may lose $111 million - property taxes will rise?
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Jako wrote:
The way I see it, while a re-val is due, if it's accompanied by an appropriate change in the tax rate, those brownstone owners will end up paying the same taxes they did before, no?


No. The overall taxes collected by the city should stay the same, but individual RE taxes will rise and fall all over the place. Newly constructed but unabated places will likely fall as the rate falls since their assessments are more accurate, but older places with low assessments that haven't sold in decades will rise considerably even as rates are lowered since their assessments will triple or more.

Posted on: 2008/1/4 18:40
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Re: Jersey City schools may lose $111 million - property taxes will rise?
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ianmac47 wrote:
The biggest problem for Jersey City's tax revenue comes from avoiding property revaluations. There has been a tremendous increase in the value of properties over the last 14 years since the last revaluation, and a disproportional increase in values in the downtown. Because the value of property has increased, a revaluation would lower the rate at which property is taxed at.
For instance, a property valued at $100,000 during the last revaluation 14 years ago might now be worth $1,000,000. A revaluation does not change the total collected revenue, only the rate at which revenue is generated. By taxing property on a lower value than it is, the tax rate is artificially high, to offset the difference. After a reval, the rate would be lower, and the council could than raise the needed revenue from an increase in property taxes, which would probably still keep the rate lower than many surrounding communities.


You seem to miss the point that, since in a reval some get lowered but an equal number get raised so the reval is revenue neutral, raising the rate after a reval has dropped it results in the half of property owners whose values were raised getting raised twice. You can't just single out those whose taxes were lowered in the reval to have their new rate raised.

I'm not saying that people shouldn't pay their fair share, just that the politics of a double wammy would be nuclear. People are pretty ignorant of the financial options available to someone with low income but owning a $1m property outright, and you will hear much cries in the reval of "forcing people from their homes".

Comparing the "rate" to other communities is pointless since every town is at a different point in the disastrous reval cycle of the cumulative value of all property getting farther and farther away from reality causing the rate to climb to compensate.

Posted on: 2008/1/4 16:46
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Re: Signs Signs, everywhere there's Signs
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I can't stand maps that don't have north "up". It starts you out confused.

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Sign at 8th and Jersey - just west of the park entrance:
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