California

[Wagtail]

Yep... I'm in Thurston County and my taxes went from $6800 to $12,000 in one jump after I-747 was tossed... my neighbors all experienced the same...

Home on 16+ very pretty acres with a little creek where a few salmon spawn... real peaceful and serene.

It $1000 a month property taxes really give my pause to re-evaluate my long range plans...

A typical move of one of my retired friends is to be closer to kids and grand kids who made lives outside California...

Good LORD! I had to re-read that first line...

My annual property tax is A$1,200 (no, I didn't drop a zero) if I pay it in one go. Maybe A$1,300 if I were to pay it in quarterly instalments.

Perhaps you all should think about retiring down here? [which is fine as I've "already got mine". ]

 

[ultrarunner]

During the time I worked in Germany/Austria I was always getting into discussion with coworkers about the cost of living around the world... some lived in magnificent homes that had been passed down for hundreds of years...

Both places are not known for inexpensive living yet the property taxes due on valuable property was only a fraction of my experience in Washington and California...

I currently have the Washington property rented and taxes and insurance take about 10 months rent if all goes well.

 

[jerrybob]

Yep... I'm in Thurston County and my taxes went from $6800 to $12,000 in one jump after I-747 was tossed... my neighbors all experienced the same...

Home on 16+ very pretty acres with a little creek where a few salmon spawn... real peaceful and serene.

It $1000 a month property taxes really give my pause to re-evaluate my long range plans...

A typical move of one of my retired friends is to be closer to kids and grand kids who made lives outside California...

Yikes.....that's terrible. Nothing like that happening here.....we pay about $3K for 6 acres and our neighbors are elk. Thurston Co. is way too crowded for me......startin to look like Calif.

 

[jerrybob]

All of my friends out your way live off of Greenhorn Road...

They have commented that things have change over the years with more of a Drug influence creeping in...

My parents owned some acreage in Los Gatos that was part of an old orchard with a Diary Farm nearby... when I came along they sold it and that went the family fortune... or would be fortune!

I'm still looking all the time for a home for my 50 vehicle collection... it has taken a lifetime to accumulate and really can't enjoy them at all being spread out all over the place... so I keep looking.

Ideally it would be somewhere close enough to a small town where I could drive the Horseless Carriages and room for everything to be stored safe inside...

Found the ideal perfect place in 2012 and was the backup offer for 59 days.

A couple of year back I looked at a place in Calaveras... 7,200 square foot shop... home was not to my taste and decided to pass... found out this week the person that bought it was also a car collector and he lost much in the Butte Fire last year... so this is also a concern as my insurance is dependent on availability of things like fire hydrants in fire prone areas.

50 vehicles......that is impressive and really cool!

 

[ultrarunner]

Only about half are insured... the rest are projects.

Started out wanting one car from each decade.

At one time it was easy to do restorations... I could go to the corner paint store and buy what I needed... not like that anymore.

 

[dickfoster]

Only about half are insured... the rest are projects.

Started out wanting one car from each decade.

At one time it was easy to do restorations... I could go to the corner paint store and buy what I needed... not like that anymore.

It's hard to buy even good lacquer or paint thinner in this state now. You have to go to a paint store because the junk in the hardware stores and home centers isn't worth bringing home must less pay for. At least I'm close to Nevada if it becomes necessary.

 

[ultrarunner]

One of the guys in the car club goes all the way to Reno to buy his supplies and it is not cheap...

I painted cars with Dupont Centari with hardener or Lacquer.... got nice results.

Maybe I should be looking to places like Gardnerville?

 

[California]

Life turned to lemons? make lemonade!

Sac Bee 6-25-2016:

After devastating fire, county turns to marijuana for comeback

Calaveras adopts rules that allow commercial cannabis farms in region ravaged by Butte Fire

Worried by pot speculators buying scorched properties, officials set restrictions on new cultivation

Residents expected to vote in November on marijuana tax that could bring in millions in revenue

Read more here: After devastating fire, county turns to marijuana for comeback | The Sacramento Bee

 

[dickfoster]

Life turned to lemons? make lemonade!

Nevada County is making it harder on legal growers so they are either moving to other counties and taking their money with them or going underground. The county just lost a measure this last election that would made the changes that made it harder more permanent. I think it's all pretty stupid and they're just putting off the day when it's legal all over the country again. For pity sake, it's a weed so it was really stupid to make it illegal in the first place must less the feds scheduling it a 1 right up there with the really nasty stuff. Lots of silly and stupid politics involved in this one. One of these days idiots are gonna figure out that prohibition DOES NOT work and it never will. I thought we'd proved that one already with no less than two constitutional amendments. The rest is just so much political rhetoric and so much BS just to give the political types something to talk about. It's like trying to stamp out prostitution and sex, it's never gonna happen.

 

[bcp]

From:
North Beach tenant's rent increased from $1,8 to $8, a month - SFGate

A North Beach tenant recently received notice from his landlord that the rent on his North Beach apartment was going up from $1,800 a month to $8,000, ABC 13 reports.

Last year, Bernal Heights tenant Deb Follingstad made headlines when she posted a notice from her landlord on Facebook stating that her rent is jumping from $2,145 to $8,900.