"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
19 October 2004No snacks for youThere once was a time when it was considered cute to illustrate your Yellow Pages or other institutional advertising with sub-literate urchins, and the results were usually as godawful as this piece for an exterminator, from deep in the cultural wilderness of the early 1960s:
SLU#1: "Be's you got bugs?"
SLU#2: "Sure I are. Ev'rybody do." Ev'rybody do not. Surlywood passed the annual termite inspection today with flying, um, fibers. Which means, of course, that apart from the weather, the major destructive force here is yours truly. Semi-amusing sidebar: Since this property changed hands in the last 12 months, the 5-percent cap on property-tax increases no longer applies, and the county assessor was happy to bump up the tax bill by $175 this year. Offsetting a fifth of this, my homeowner's insurance inexplicably went down $35. (Well, it's explicable enough: I have slightly less crummy credit this year than I did last year.) Posted at 4:13 PM to SurlywoodThat's a knee slapper! A CAP on tax increases. Stop it before I get a cramp! Terkish Payne, oh. You were serious when you said that part. "Ho Ho, Ha Ha, It Is To Laugh." -Daffy Duck *Sigh* The things they rate us for :( And yes, thank goodness, there is the cap. But they have raised mine 5% every year since I bought this place! Posted by: ms7168 at 5:23 AM on 21 October 2004Must be a function of the taxing district. I traced the taxes on this house back six years, and in the years when it increased, it was generally around 1.5 to 2 percent. (Taxes actually went down one year, though this was due to an owner not qualified for homestead exemption selling it to a buyer who was.) |