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So you are advocating that people take out a reverse mortgage to pay their taxes. It's a good thing you are not a financial planner
Posted on: 2017/2/22 5:16
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AND. SO. WHAT? But I'm feeling generous so I'll explain AGAIN. They put down no more than $17k and made $983,000!! YAY!!! More money than they ever dreamed of, and as you say, they didn't do anything for it! Now they're being asked to pay 2%, $20k, to stay in their house. Lets say it ultimately costs $5k a year for the reverse mortgage, which is an absurdly high guess. Now they've got to pay $25k, 2.5%, per year out of their equity. Is there anyone who doesn't believe that a DT property will increase by more than that 2.5% on average over the next decade or 2? Remember how fast it recovered even after the 2008 drop? So our modest millionaires can continue to live in their house, and benefit from any gains over 2.5 for as long as they like. But wait, what's that? A black Swan!! Property drops 30%! It makes no difference to them. After all, all they wanted was to stay in their house and they've still got plenty of equity to pay taxes. Oh, you say what they really wanted was to stay in their house, pay low taxes, and leave the equity untouched to their kids? Tough shit. That party is ending. Presuming they aren't morons, take a lump sum reverse mortgage and blow it in Vegas on slots, coke and hookers there's no need to feel sorry for them, they're winners!!
Posted on: 2017/2/22 5:03
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You've said that before, and it was as stupid and petty then. Resenting and wanting to delay the end of a longstanding injustice that you've benefited by is pretty low, IMO. I will get hurt far more by my DT property than I will gain by my Heights properties, especially as both of those are currently at or near proper assessment.
Posted on: 2017/2/22 3:35
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Real Estate investors / speculators who claim to be concerned about fairness toward poorer people seem very disingenuous.
Posted on: 2017/2/22 1:21
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Yup, as I said, you're just making shit up. I did say "Buyer of recently condoed or constructed property have little to worry about." This is true, since their assessments are recent and very close to accurate. What I did NOT in any way say was "no-one downtown will be affected by the 2xs - 4xs increase of property taxes". What I did say was fixed income people over 62 sitting on millions in equity have reverse mortgages available to extract that equity to pay their fair taxes and stay in their homes. They can choose not to and sell, but they can't boohoo and say they had no choice. Crying about paying another 1% tax on a property that is going up >10% per year after going up 1000%, after underpaying for years, seems disingenuous to me. But you and Yvonne seem to have no problem with disingenuous.
Posted on: 2017/2/22 0:45
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It could be they did not buy a million dollar home, they brought a $65,000 home that became a million without them doing anything.
Posted on: 2017/2/21 22:00
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Here's one..... #896 When people own $1m homes, there's simply no reason taxes can't be paid. Posted on: 2016/5/25 12:15 ------------------------------------------- Here's another...... #904 The foreclosure talk is scaremongering plain and simple. The only people who "might" be forced to sell are very recent purchasers of older properties who extended themselves to the max and have little equity to work with. But even if they've only been there 5 years they've seen enough appreciation to be able extract some for taxes, since vlaues have been rising at a rate many times the projected ~2% tax. Buyer of recently condoed or constructed property have little to worry about. Posted on: 2016/5/25 16:22 ------------------------------------ Both were your direct response to what I had written in this very long thread. ?The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.? ? Charles Bukowski
Posted on: 2017/2/21 21:50
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I don't think a 'phased in' process is of benefit to those overpaying, while downtowners are underpaying.
Posted on: 2017/2/21 21:06
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Quote me where I said any such thing. You're just making shit up. Fake News.
Posted on: 2017/2/21 17:45
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You need not wonder. Brewster's argument is what is fair; mine is what is equitable. There is a difference. If you need evidence of such, look at my provactive and terse followup comments. Debating fair tax policy, of any sort of taxes, I have no interest. It is interesting, but such debate could fill a book. Reval is of interest. When Brewster writes that no-one downtown will be affected by the 2xs - 4xs increase of property taxes, overnight, it is not only ludicrous, but loses all credibility with making such an asinine and unsubstantiated comment, repeatedly. All I am proposing, like others here, is that a one time exception for doing a stage reval occurs. I went into great detail as to why it will be beneficial for all property taxpayers.
Posted on: 2017/2/21 16:07
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I asked this question some time ago. The answer someone provided as I recall is exactly as you suggested, that it would take some time to reach accurate pricing because of seller denial. I would assume though, that there must be some retrospective analysis of tax impact on values across the country that could be used for a formula to limit the increase to say 85% of the absolute number. Homeowners getting a 15% discount would feel less compelled to appeal which might take less of the city resources. I know some people will object to this based on on the difficulty of reaching a fair formula that is appropriately reflecting each city situation. It seems to me though, that if limited in scope, this proposal could gain more traction than an 5 year installment plan which has little prospect of winning imho.
Posted on: 2017/2/18 19:54
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That raises an interesting question in my mind. So the way this is expected to play out is higher taxes cause a price drop creating grounds for appeal based on post reval comps. Never mind the fact this will take years to happen as sellers are very reluctant to drop prices and it will only really take hold when "must sell" transactions establish a new comp level. What if they accounted for the the expected price drop in the assessments thus heading off the appeals? It's not hard to figure out what a tax hike would do to the monthly nut of the typical mortgaged buyer. It seems stupid on the face of it leaving money on the table by underassessing, but it would take some of the volatility out of the market.
Posted on: 2017/2/18 4:23
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More like residents will be flooding the tax office with appeals. A better approach would be anticipating this and not using just recent sale prices as the sole basis But that has been discussed before. The point of reviving this thread was to see if anyone had any info on the he current status of the process.
Posted on: 2017/2/17 22:51
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But to keep it fair we will need an ironclad law calling for rolling reval and a regular one every decade. This can't be allowed to be a political can to kick down the road continually ever again. This whole thing is an artifact of gutless leadership and a local press content to be mostly stenographers.
Posted on: 2017/2/17 22:19
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Posted on: 2017/2/17 22:18
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Well, that ship has sailed, there won't be a phase in, and soon everyone will be paying their 'fair share'. It'll seesaw back for a few years then stabilize.
Posted on: 2017/2/17 22:04
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No, you missed my point. The delay has really begun to help prices balance more -- and if it could be put off a few more years it seems likely that a truer value map could be determined.
Posted on: 2017/2/17 21:47
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The reval delay is responsible for the real estate boom? More like the NYC boom is pushing people out to JC.
Posted on: 2017/2/17 21:38
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The great thing about the reval delay is that it has begun to give other areas of JC a chance to catch up with the price increases first seen in the Waterfront & Downtown areas. Just look at the prices in the areas all around Journal Square -- and also look at the prices for much of the Heights - now even Greenville has begun to really shoot up in the last year or two! It is a shame the reval can't be put off just a few more years! But phasing in increases would be the best thing to do!
Posted on: 2017/2/17 21:28
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Well said bodhipooh. I no longer have the stomach to feed this troll.
Posted on: 2017/2/17 20:33
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I wonder Ralph_Abutts is the same person that some years back was arguing the merits of downtowners paying less because they consume less city services. Of course, he is pushing self serving logic as far as the phase-in idea, then used poor math to try and disprove a fact (that they are more "overpayers" than "underpayers") and now pursuing the "well, us downtowners are not free loading off the city/state/etc" argument to justify the underpaying of taxes. At every turn, he is being purposefully obtuse: first by equating the number of overpayers necessarily being the same as underpayers since the reval must be revenue neutral (others have clearly explained why that is not the case) and now he is dismissing Brewster's point by arguing that when Brewster stated "That argument is a nonstarter as far as the US tax system is concerned" is not applicable because we are talking about local property taxes.
In the US, property taxes are always, and everywhere, levied as a percentage of property value. That's what Brewster meant, Ralph_Abutts. For reasons that defy logic, JC has gone almost 30 years without updating property values, and therefore taxation of local real estate is incredibly out of whack. Trying to argue that those well off consume less resources and therefore should pay less (in percentage) than others not so well off is a non starter for a variety of reasons, but mostly because that;'s just not how things work. How about the young professional (such as myself) that lives in DTJC, but uses almost no city services (beyond street parking, and roads to come and go at times) and no kids in the system. I reckon I should pay a couple of hundred of dollars a year. But, that's not how things work. You don't pay for what you consume, that's not how taxation works in the US, in NJ, or in JC.
Posted on: 2017/2/17 19:43
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To you point Ralph a condo living downtowner paying 10k on a 800k property probably "consumes" less resources then someone in Greenville on a 25x100 lot paying 6k in taxes
Posted on: 2017/2/17 19:09
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brewster wrote: That argument is a nonstarter as far as the US tax system is concerned. [/i] That's correct > your argument is a nonstarter because the topic is about local property taxes.
Posted on: 2017/2/17 18:40
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That argument is a nonstarter as far as the US tax system is concerned. No one has gotten out of paying property tax because they don't have children for example. You're desperately reaching for some justification to continue having someone else pay your fair taxes.
Posted on: 2017/2/17 18:34
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Have you considered that the "overpayers" consume less of what they are paying for than the "underpayers"?
If so, then the use of those terms seems rather contradictory and I think it is best to rethink what it means to be an "overpayer".
Posted on: 2017/2/17 17:33
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In all likelihood, that is an incorrect statement. In dollar terms, true. But the reallocation of the tax burden is not a one to one exercise. It is an almost certainty that the number of overpayers is far greater than the underpayers, but that each of the underpayers has been underpaying by a much greater amount than what each of the overpayers have overpaid. Just think about the value of the homes that are most prominently underpaying relative to the areas that get pointed to most frequently as overpayers. One $2 million underpaying house covers a lot of overpaying houses in Greenville, for instance.
Posted on: 2017/2/17 16:49
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Jersey City's reval to begin soonBy An issue with Jersey City's tax maps that has postponed the already long-stalled property revaluation has been largely settled, meaning the reval will soon begin. City spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill said the city is scheduling community meetings starting next month to give anxious homeowners an overview of the reval process. The city has not undergone a complete reval since 1988. The schedule of meetings has not been finalized, Morrill said. Home inspections would likely begin soon after the meetings are conducted. http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index ... ys_reval_to_begin_so.html
Posted on: 2017/2/17 16:13
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Nice. "Hey neighbor, get the fuck out if you don't like being ripped off". What you don't seem to understand is when an expensive property is paying 1/3 the rate of properties worth far less, it takes more of them to balance the books. A $1m home paying 1% needs 3 $333k homes paying 3% to balance their nice low tax. If those homes all appealed their assessments it would take a tax hike to keep the proportional rate low on the $1m house, so EVERYONE ELSE would be overpaying. It's zero sum game! Do you even know what that means?
Posted on: 2017/2/17 15:54
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If a homeowner thinks they are "overpaying", they are free to move. The choice is freely theirs to make and there will always be someone to purchase their property. And if you truly understand a reval, you would know "overpayers" do not exceed "underpayers".
Posted on: 2017/2/17 14:35
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what will likely happen after the reval - there will be a be spotlight on city spending and continued tax abatements coming from home owners (mostly, but not all downtown).
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