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Post by thywar on Apr 1, 2014 16:12:58 GMT -7
Living here in tornado alley the storm shelter business (in home) is booming. Watching a story on our evening news the new ones are registered when you get your building permit. They want people who own older ones to register them as well. The reasoning is so they can check for survivors who have them. Does that occur in your areas? Would you register yours? Out here in the country we don't need no stinkin' building permit.
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Post by hunter63 on Apr 1, 2014 16:15:42 GMT -7
That is an interesting question....I would tend to "Not" give away any info unless I had to.
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Post by angelhelp on Apr 1, 2014 16:25:44 GMT -7
Around here, town officials walk through everyone's house once every 10 years. They will literally walk through each room, ostensibly verifying that what's listed about the house is true, e.g. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, finished basement, etc. If something doesn't match their previous inspection, taxes are increased accordingly. Permits are needed for just about anything, and unless you sell the property before that next inspection, you'll be paying for whatever you did. If you had a storm shelter here, you better believe the town will not only know about it, they'll have seen it, inside and out.
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Post by Cwi555 on Apr 1, 2014 16:40:54 GMT -7
Does that occur in your areas?
No
Would you register yours?
Ummm ..... No
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Post by thywar on Apr 1, 2014 16:48:26 GMT -7
Around here, town officials walk through everyone's house once every 10 years. They will literally walk through each room, ostensibly verifying that what's listed about the house is true, e.g. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, finished basement, etc. If something doesn't match their previous inspection, taxes are increased accordingly. Permits are needed for just about anything, and unless you sell the property before that next inspection, you'll be paying for whatever you did. If you had a storm shelter here, you better believe the town will not only know about it, they'll have seen it, inside and out. If I had to low crawl to move out of that fascist state I'd be gone tomorrow. That's absurd. I had a 1200sf garage and a separate carport built in addition to expanding my deck from 600 sf to 1800 sf with no permits and my property taxes increased by $14. |
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Post by woodyz on Apr 1, 2014 16:56:44 GMT -7
There can be many good reasons for doing a lot of things, registering an underground shelter so you can be found is a good idea on paper.
Registering something that was a good idea quickly can become a bad idea, if it is registered it will be come a taxation issue, no matter if the tax was before as with a building permit, or after when the area gets annexed or when the every hungry goberment looks for more revenue.
Also, once something is on the books it is a simple matter to discover it, for good use or not. The first place any invading force would go to is the tax office. Now they know how many people live where, who has what registered, who owns the properties they need/want.
For what ever reason people before the War Between the States started to register their slaves, at first maybe as boastfulness, then as a property tax. When the Union took a city, one of the first things they did was access those records to see who their enemy was, who had the most property, where was the influence based. After the war the "carpet" baggers used those old records to confiscate the previous slave holders property or top demand back taxes not collected during the war.
Without those registration/taxation/information files, stealing other peoples property would have been much harder.
What starts out as a good sounding idea, often isn't thought out for what can happen down the road.
The thing about it is that it repeats itself over and over in history. And rather than learn from the mistake man just continues to repeat the errors made by the past generations.
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Post by marc on Apr 1, 2014 17:18:25 GMT -7
Around here, town officials walk through everyone's house once every 10 years. They will literally walk through each room, ostensibly verifying that what's listed about the house is true, e.g. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, finished basement, etc. If something doesn't match their previous inspection, taxes are increased accordingly. Permits are needed for just about anything, and unless you sell the property before that next inspection, you'll be paying for whatever you did. If you had a storm shelter here, you better believe the town will not only know about it, they'll have seen it, inside and out. If I had to low crawl to move out of that fascist state I'd be gone tomorrow. That's absurd. I had a 1200sf garage and a separate carport built in addition to expanding my deck from 600 sf to 1800 sf with no permits and my property taxes increased by $14. Said it before, but I pulled up 45+ year old deep roots in CA and moved for that reason - after listing a thousand reasons why I couldn't possibly move. And, no - it wouldn't be registered. "The reason for the backhoe you saw me towing to my place, was to clean out my livestock tank and improve the drainage into it." Marc |
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Post by angelhelp on Apr 1, 2014 17:50:05 GMT -7
Around here, town officials walk through everyone's house once every 10 years. They will literally walk through each room, ostensibly verifying that what's listed about the house is true, e.g. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, finished basement, etc. If something doesn't match their previous inspection, taxes are increased accordingly. Permits are needed for just about anything, and unless you sell the property before that next inspection, you'll be paying for whatever you did. If you had a storm shelter here, you better believe the town will not only know about it, they'll have seen it, inside and out. If I had to low crawl to move out of that fascist state I'd be gone tomorrow. That's absurd. I had a 1200sf garage and a separate carport built in addition to expanding my deck from 600 sf to 1800 sf with no permits and my property taxes increased by $14. We rent our property from the local gov't to the tune of $4500 annually. They really ought to stop putting "Constitution State" on our license plates. |
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Post by thywar on Apr 1, 2014 17:57:42 GMT -7
$1200 for my acre
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Post by angelhelp on Apr 1, 2014 18:01:09 GMT -7
That's your asking price? Oh duh... that's your property tax. My brain was thinking about the 8.2 earthquake and effects thereof. Read the shoutbox... Clearly it's time I put this brain to bed for the night.  |
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Post by missasip on Apr 1, 2014 20:48:02 GMT -7
If I had to low crawl to move out of that fascist state I'd be gone tomorrow. That's absurd. I had a 1200sf garage and a separate carport built in addition to expanding my deck from 600 sf to 1800 sf with no permits and my property taxes increased by $14. Said it before, but I pulled up 45+ year old deep roots in CA and moved for that reason - after listing a thousand reasons why I couldn't possibly move. And, no - it wouldn't be registered. "The reason for the backhoe you saw me towing to my place, was to clean out my livestock tank and improve the drainage into it." Marc $3.74 for my 1.4 acres..... When I pay them, they always make a big deal out of it....can I really aford that much....  Jimmy |
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Post by ccove on Apr 2, 2014 13:00:58 GMT -7
Around here, town officials walk through everyone's house once every 10 years. They will literally walk through each room, ostensibly verifying that what's listed about the house is true, e.g. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, finished basement, etc. If something doesn't match their previous inspection, taxes are increased accordingly. Permits are needed for just about anything, and unless you sell the property before that next inspection, you'll be paying for whatever you did. If you had a storm shelter here, you better believe the town will not only know about it, they'll have seen it, inside and out. Boy I thought New York was bad. |
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Post by kutkota on Apr 2, 2014 13:02:38 GMT -7
Around here, town officials walk through everyone's house once every 10 years. They will literally walk through each room, ostensibly verifying that what's listed about the house is true, e.g. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, finished basement, etc. If something doesn't match their previous inspection, taxes are increased accordingly. Permits are needed for just about anything, and unless you sell the property before that next inspection, you'll be paying for whatever you did. If you had a storm shelter here, you better believe the town will not only know about it, they'll have seen it, inside and out. Boy I thought New York was bad. No way I would be caught dead in that state! |
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Post by USCGME2 on Apr 2, 2014 15:51:34 GMT -7
Why do the people of CT like it that way? What do they get from it? Is liberal progessives dug in that deep there? It seems over the top oppressive.
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Post by woodyz on Apr 2, 2014 16:38:42 GMT -7
$357.00 for 59 acres without improvements (that they know about)
$315.00 for 16 acres with house and 1 out building.
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