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Old 02-12-2019, 02:01 AM
 
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JJones, yeah, I see you said not all neighborhoods are under Mello Roos levies. So because of this, it's OK to "stick it" to families that want a new home? Not every family wants to live in a house built in the '40s or '50s.
Do provide a link for your disingenuous claim. And do continue to dodge and deflect comments made to you that you obviously can't address (yeah, they don't just go away because you ignore them).

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Old 02-12-2019, 12:43 PM
 
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JJones, yeah, I see you said not all neighborhoods are under Mello Roos levies. So because of this, it's OK to "stick it" to families that want a new home? Not every family wants to live in a house built in the '40s or '50s.
or the 20's, 30's, 70's etc.

My home built in 1993... no Mello.

It would seem Mello varies by location and not age of property in question.

Some districts. especially Southern CA embrace Mello as the second coming... removes the reality of budget constraints from the mix...

Why should those living in 1950's homes in downhill neighborhoods have to pay for Taj Mahal Fire Houses, Roads, and Schools in neighborhoods they will never see?
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Old 02-12-2019, 01:14 PM
 
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or the 20's, 30's, 70's etc.

My home built in 1993... no Mello.

It would seem Mello varies by location and not age of property in question.

Some districts. especially Southern CA embrace Mello as the second coming... removes the reality of budget constraints from the mix...

Why should those living in 1950's homes in downhill neighborhoods have to pay for Taj Mahal Fire Houses, Roads, and Schools in neighborhoods they will never see?
Yeah, mine was built in 2000 and no Mellos and no HOA as they gave all the streets etc to the city.
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Old 02-12-2019, 01:25 PM
 
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or the 20's, 30's, 70's etc.

My home built in 1993... no Mello.

It would seem Mello varies by location and not age of property in question.

Some districts. especially Southern CA embrace Mello as the second coming... removes the reality of budget constraints from the mix...

Why should those living in 1950's homes in downhill neighborhoods have to pay for Taj Mahal Fire Houses, Roads, and Schools in neighborhoods they will never see?
I agree, it varies by location it more prevalent in suburban Solano County during the 80's and 90's, than in Contra Costa or Marin Counties. But the reality is that they are just another way to pay impact fees. If the impact fees are $50,000 then homeowners get to pay for them over a period of 20 years, without Mello Roos, the builder jacks up the price of the home by $50,000 and pays for them up front.
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Old 02-12-2019, 02:01 PM
 
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or the 20's, 30's, 70's etc.

My home built in 1993... no Mello.

It would seem Mello varies by location and not age of property in question.

Some districts. especially Southern CA embrace Mello as the second coming... removes the reality of budget constraints from the mix...

Why should those living in 1950's homes in downhill neighborhoods have to pay for Taj Mahal Fire Houses, Roads, and Schools in neighborhoods they will never see?
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Yeah, mine was built in 2000 and no Mellos and no HOA as they gave all the streets etc to the city.

Mr. Doug seems to be clueless as to how Mello-Roos works, even though he loves to rant about it. I have no idea where he got the idea that homes built after the 50's were all Mello-Roos (as his comment implies). There are specific districts that are given the designation.
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Old 02-12-2019, 03:00 PM
 
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Right. And it prices out the young families who were born and raised in California. No one can buy now except the very high income earners. Newcomers can pay the "voluntary" tax but locals are screwed because people who bought at the start of PROP 13 are getting an enormous benefit on the backs of young people.

Does it seem reasonable that a local family buying their first house in Temecula with two people in their early 30's are paying the same in Prop Tax as their parents in Encinitas with a 1.5M house? Prop 13 in its current form is effectively driving locals out of California.
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Old 02-12-2019, 03:43 PM
 
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I've posted before of High School Sweethearts that married at 24... they waited until they both graduated college and the first in their families to do so.

She is Nurse and he is a police officer... her family is from the Philippines and his is African American.

The both worked very hard and had jobs waiting... no silver spoons and said education first, marriage, by a house in the SF Bay Area and then kids...

NO silver spoons in the family...

Plus they have fantastic benefits and retirement...

I work with a lot of RN's and they are all buying homes by 30... and all are very disciplined...
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Old 02-12-2019, 03:48 PM
 
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I've posted before of High School Sweethearts that married at 24...
Hard work and delayed gratification is for chumps. You know. "It's not fair".

It's easier if not more fun to simply confiscate it from those who worked for it and/or are grandfathered in. Also, if for no other reason than spite and envy, as many of the replies in this discussion make abundantly clear.
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Old 02-12-2019, 03:59 PM
 
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Correct.
Nope, they need to work and make enough to buy, as their parents did. No one deserves to own a home or live in CA. They earn it.



Prop 13 has nothing to do with it or people would not be buying today and paying the high taxes based on the sale price. Eliminating Prop 13 would not drop te overall cost of a home at all, just hurt older home owners In fact taxes would go up and ... the same people who can buy, would; and the same people who can't, wont. Reality.
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Old 02-12-2019, 06:54 PM
 
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Nope, they need to work and make enough to buy, as their parents did. No one deserves to own a home or live in CA. They earn it.



Prop 13 has nothing to do with it or people would not be buying today and paying the high taxes based on the sale price. Eliminating Prop 13 would not drop te overall cost of a home at all, just hurt older home owners In fact taxes would go up and ... the same people who can buy, would; and the same people who can't, wont. Reality.
ExpatCA, c'mon! Where you been, man? That the standard line...don't ya know?. They have a list of cure-alls that will make their dreams come true. It's all Prop 13's fault, so it needs to be abolished so the top 5% and higher can move in, and everyone should be living in 500sf homes (because that's how everyone wants to live)

What's this hard work stuff you and UR are talking about? What's fair about that? Throw the old folks to the curb. They've lived long enough! No need for the newcomers to have to follow the same rules everyone before them has had to follow. They deserve special treatment.

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