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Tax Auction Info Needed

Don't do this. There are plenty of HONEST ways to make money. Aiding governments with the theft of people's homes is NOT one of them.

The owners have worked all their lives to pay for those homes in most cases. It's not their fault that the government steals.

Instead, try helping a beleaguered home owner with his tax problem, instead of turning them loose on the streets, with nothing left to lose.

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reply to JimCT
No matter how long or how much you pay on it, no matter how much sweat you put into it, you will never own your home free and clear. You will always be paying rent. And no matter what "contract" you entered into with the city when you "bought" your property, you have no control over how much rent you'll be paying when you retire.

California Proposition 13 (1978)
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California···81978%29

"The proposition decreased property taxes by assessing property values at their 1975 value and restricted annual increases of assessed value of real property to an inflation factor, not to exceed 2% per year. It also prohibited reassessment of a new base year value except for (a) change in ownership or (b) completion of new construction.
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A large contributor to Proposition 13 was the sentiment that older Californians should not be priced out of their homes through high taxes."

There are some economic unintended consequences with such a proposition (as with any kind of rent control) but without some form of leash on local governments it becomes a carte blanche approval to increase the budget whenever it desires. As it stands now, it's a simple budget matter of "how much money do we want" and "Ok, divide that into the property values that we already decided on".

Pitiful.

That said, avoiding buying these stolen homes will have no affect on whether they're stolen going forward; the cities don't care. This problem needs to be attacked at its roots, not at its branches.

GA

reply to pandora

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reply to disconnected
»blog.ctnews.com/edwards/2010/07/···en-sale/

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reply to JimCT
All self pontificating bullshit aside - the Plainfield tax assessor should be able to either give you the list, or tell you where to find it.

reply to cowboyro
No, living for the sake of one's own life is everyone's individual duty.
Paying taxes is foolhardy at best, and downright destructive of countries at typical. Witness the totalitarian regime that is taking over the US now. That is only possible through extortion of funds.
What kind of government is so terrible that the ONLY way it can fund itself is through the theft of money, under the threat of MURDER, from it's subjects?
Frankly, if the government's services are so in-demand, then they would be on the free market.
Taxes accomplish only one thing: strip citizens of the power of self-determination, making them all wards of the state.

On a more practical note, if an individual can't afford property taxes on a small home, what makes you think he'll even qualify to pass the credit check on renting an apartment?

Eventually, home owners are going to stand up, like that fellow in Ogden, UT did last week and a lot of people are going to wind up hurt or dead.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

reply to JimCT
I see everyone's point here, but at the same time, we don't know if half these items are people who walked away from their mortgages, closed businesses, or what they are about. I've talked to a few people whose post 9/08 perception of walking away from a mortgage commitment is as blase as "I dropped a penny in a mud puddle, oh well."