Crab Meadow Development

[OnOurWayHome]

Most of the homes we looked at on the MLS in Fort Salonga were listed twice - once under FS and once under Northport. If I saw village taxes listed I knew it was in the village of Northport. The only thing I really cared about was the school district, anyway - houses in FS and Kings Park schools seem to have MUCH higher taxes than those in the Northport school district.

[franaissance]

Northport is very attractive for its lower taxes than most nearby towns. How do they manage to have such lower taxes???

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by franaissance

Northport is very attractive for its lower taxes than most nearby towns. How do they manage to have such lower taxes???

Being a village, with its own self-government, and not a hamlet, governed at-large by the town it is in, Northport can protect its residents from some of the Town of Huntington property taxes.

This is true of many villages in the 13 towns in both counties.

The assumption that property in a village adds an additional property tax to the town property tax is not always the case. Un many cases the additional village property tax is less than, not more than, the reduction in the town property tax by being in a village and not in a hamlet, because there are property taxes that a town levies on property in hamlets that it can not levy on property in a village or the village choses not to levy a property tax for a service that the town provided in hamlets.

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[Elke Mariotti]

Originally Posted by Walter Greenspan

" ... (I)f the public generally perceives it as such," is an interesting ethical standard, huh?

I thought from a previous posting of yours that the Realtors first job was a high ethical standard, and I do not see marketing a property as being in "Northport", when it is not in the Village of Northport, but is in the Hamlet of Fort Salonga ("Northport, NY 11768" mailing address) as meeting a high ethical standard, regardless if the public generally perceives it as such.

I believe I stated that it would be a dual listing, in order to capture the attention of everyone interested in the area (part of the responsibility of marketing), including those potential buyers who are not as educated about "legal boundaries" as you are. (I'm not knocking your comment, Walter, I respect your quest for accuracy!!)

It goes without saying that any potential buyer would be informed of the "accurate" location should they show an interest in making an offer.