Another issue is what happens if a person decides to build totally new - e.g. a new "super-insulated house." The taxes go up so much, it's hardly worth the effort. At least in New York and Michigan.
I much prefer buying and old house with low taxes, and rehabing it. And and underground house is often considered a sub-standard structure and taxed very little.
We bought an old farm-house and land in northern Michgigan last year on foreclosure for $32,000. It had been trashed - which was exactly what I wanted. When foreclosed it had a 100K mortgage against it. The local assessor put a value of $85K on it and I took it to court - via the Michigan Tax Tribunal. I won, and it is now assessed at $14,000. Now I can fix it up and it has some tax-caps on it, for as long as I own it.
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Today's Featured Article - Third Brush Generators - by Chris Pratt. While I love straightening sheet metal, cleaning, and painting old tractors, I use every excuse to avoid working on the on the electrics. I find the whole process sheer mystery. I have picked up and attempted to read every auto and farm electrics book with no improvement in the situation. They all seem to start with a chapter entitled "Theory of Electricity". After a few paragraphs I usually close the book and go back to banging out dents. A good friend and I were recently discussing our tractor electrical systems when he stated "I figure it all comes back to applying Ohms Law". At this point
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