A place for residents of Marin County, CA and others to express their views regarding the real estate bubble and in particular the Marin real estate market
Hmmm, that 'Other' category is getting more votes than I would have thought.
If you voted 'Other' and didn't leave a comment but wanted to but didn't because you didn't want to create an account then go ahead and email your comment to me and I'll post it anonymously I guess. Sheesh. Please put 'Other category' or something useful like that in the subject line to help me out. Thanks.
I voted other. Houses were expensive before Prop 13 and wqent down for several years under Prop 13. Low taxes are just low taxes.
Sure as heck isn't land use either. Los Angeles is the densest urban area in the nation. People think it is sprawled but in fact it is just the opposite. Try to tell anyone in the Inland Empire that development restrictions are too tight. Bring body armor.
That's why you need to get up to speed or just plain old trust me. LA is the densest urban area in the nation with a bullet. NYC is denser but arbitray political boundaries are not used by any serious demographers in density studies hence the use of urban area.
Same with Prop 13. Prop 13 removed the arbitrary taxation and replaced it with cnsistent, verifiable and transparent assesment. Arbitrary WAS when your neighbor and the assesor decide how much you are supposed to think your house is worth.
The LA MSA includes National forest land which is why the correct cachement is Urban Area.
http://www.demographia.com/db-ua2000pop.htm
Surprised that the LA urban area is a third denser than the NY urban area?
http://www.demographia.com/db-nyuza1800.htm
Anyway I'm a Prop 13 agnostic. It's a tax system, of course it is unfair. What it isn't is arbitrary or capracious. That puts it way ahead of most other systems. The only serious problem is the commercial transfer loophole. There might be some merit to triggering at least partial revaluation as part of refinancing as well.
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FYI: that typo was a mistake, not on purpose (PollHost won't let me change it).
Hmmm, that 'Other' category is getting more votes than I would have thought.
If you voted 'Other' and didn't leave a comment but wanted to but didn't because you didn't want to create an account then go ahead and email your comment to me and I'll post it anonymously I guess. Sheesh. Please put 'Other category' or something useful like that in the subject line to help me out. Thanks.
I voted other. Houses were expensive before Prop 13 and wqent down for several years under Prop 13. Low taxes are just low taxes.
Sure as heck isn't land use either. Los Angeles is the densest urban area in the nation. People think it is sprawled but in fact it is just the opposite. Try to tell anyone in the Inland Empire that development restrictions are too tight. Bring body armor.
I think the density prize goes to New York City
That's why you need to get up to speed or just plain old trust me. LA is the densest urban area in the nation with a bullet. NYC is denser but arbitray political boundaries are not used by any serious demographers in density studies hence the use of urban area.
Same with Prop 13. Prop 13 removed the arbitrary taxation and replaced it with cnsistent, verifiable and transparent assesment. Arbitrary WAS when your neighbor and the assesor decide how much you are supposed to think your house is worth.
burbed -
This poll stems from your comment left on the previous post where you said:
Personally, if I were you Marinite, I'd take down this post. That article is just a deflection of the root cause of the problem: Prop 13.
So you have me confused because the problem being discussed was unaffordability.
The LA MSA includes National forest land which is why the correct cachement is Urban Area.
http://www.demographia.com/db-ua2000pop.htm
Surprised that the LA urban area is a third denser than the NY urban area?
http://www.demographia.com/db-nyuza1800.htm
Anyway I'm a Prop 13 agnostic. It's a tax system, of course it is unfair. What it isn't is arbitrary or capracious. That puts it way ahead of most other systems. The only serious problem is the commercial transfer loophole. There might be some merit to triggering at least partial revaluation as part of refinancing as well.
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