Comments on: Putting a new addition on your home? You may want to disguise it from the Black Helicopters

By: Glenn E.

Glenn E. — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:39:18 +0000

Fine, except it won’t catch the millionaires who add an addition to their homes, by jacking the first floor up, and building a new one underneath. Can’t see that from space! Nor any extensive basement work. But anyone else adding so much as an extra foot of asphalt to their driveway, is gonna get nabbed. My neighbor almost got taxed for having a new garage added to their property. The problem was, the assessor was looking at one that was part of another property, facing a nearby street, that was years old! But this inexperienced douche figured whatever house the garage was closest to, was it’s true owner. And the rest of the bureaucracy never questioned this. Fortunately, the 77 year old widowed homeowner was able to set them straight. Sheesh!

By: t0llyb0ng

t0llyb0ng — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:40:14 +0000

Over-tax & over-regulate & stuff & it just goes underground. Literally so with real-estate.

Drawin’ up ma plans for ma new sub-sub-basement.

By: ECA

ECA — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:59:35 +0000

Property should be BASED on the property..
NOT the building ON IT or IF your YARD is clean/cut or a NEW ROOF..

Im, REALLY, starting to think that a BELOW ground level house has alot going for it, besides the THERMAL cooling and control.

By: Fábio

Fábio — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:59:52 +0000

I do not think that this is high tech. Cities, , states and the federal government have been doing this for years to collect land and property taxes here in Brazil.

By: Zybch

Zybch — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:00:20 +0000

There was a similar thing happening in the UK a couple of years back. I think it was blogged about here to at the time.

Thankfully my part of the world has woefully low res satellite imagery (so far) so my planned extension shouldn’t be flagged

By: Improbus

Improbus — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:03:28 +0000

I want one of those umbrellas.

By: STEVE

STEVE — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:35:32 +0000

FINALLY, A DVORAK WEB-BLOG WORTHY STORY.

By: master-D

master-D — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:21:41 +0000

Whatever happened to the second amendment? The right to bear arms never said the right to bear some arms.

I recommend 50 cals and RPG’s for everyone. Perhaps its time we show them who the citizen is and who the servant is.

By: Dave W

Dave W — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:00:30 +0000

#2..yes, it bothers me greatly.

But it has bothered me greatly for 40 years. Noting new under the sun.

By: Sinn Fein

Sinn Fein — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:54:23 +0000

Well, why don’t we just go ahead and get our “666″ chips installed in the back of our hands so that we can be tracked going everywhere we go and buying everything buy. And, parents, its a GREAT way to prevent your precious child from being kidnapped! TRUST US, WE’RE THE GOVERNMENT.

By: OhForTheLoveOf

OhForTheLoveOf — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:52:30 +0000

A new high-tech aerial photography system that can spot an illegal porch from 5,000 feet is being marketed to tax assessors as a way to grow revenue.

Does it bother anyone besides me that we live in a world where the words “illegal porch” actually means something other than nonsense?

By: JimD

JimD — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:18:02 +0000

New York City was and probably still is using aerial photography to spot unregistered swimming pools that get assesed an additional water tax !!! So Big Brother is already here !!!