Posted on 10/30/2016 4:01:53 AM PDT by SkyPilot
If I started a rennovation in my town without permits, the township would crucify me. Not only would I have to rip out the work I had done, but I would be paying hefty fines and facing legal difficulty. Oh, not to mention the state environmental protection agencies come after people who don't obtain permits.
Good for them. Now let’s hang them on what they really did wrong.
OF COURSE your property tax assessment goes up when you renovate, ESPECIALLY in NY state.
Taxes, like laws, are for the proletariat.
Let’s not change the subject.....Emails...The continuing saga of defiance and defeat!
She’ll blame her contractors.
Ask Roger Scott about what they did to his house....
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/04/nyregion/finale-to-zoning-opera.html
They demolished his house, and backcharged him for the work.
Notice the NYT ends the article with a shot at Trump.
Mrs. Clintons opponent, Donald J. Trump, also has ties to Westchester County, where he owns an estate in Bedford and a golf club in Briarcliff Manor. Last year, Mr. Trump tried to minimize the value of the golf course to save on property taxes.
What Trump did was LEGAL. NY state tried to gouge him on the assessment, and he challenged it. Homeowners are forced to do this every single day. Property taxes in NJ are a racket to extort money from citizens to fund our out of control pension system.
But what Bill and Hillary did was ILLEGAL. It is against the law to rennovate without proper permits. And it isn't just one permit. You require structural, plumbing, mechanical, electrical, even one for the fireplaces.
This can indicate the Clinton’s are just plain greedy.
I diagree. This is yet another example of the Clinton's lawlessness. Moreover, it is one that is easier for the great unwashed to understand. Many of the low to mid-information voters cannot grasp all of the details of the Weiner-Huma-Hillary-Comey-Mills-Lynch fiasco, but they can understand breaking the laws that apply to them (like permits).
The New York Times is attempting to ‘give the appearance’ of being ‘hard on both sides’... They probably believe their own BS... the rest of us get a good laugh.
Next round of buy-outs and downsizing coming soon...
I've been associated with this type of incident for 30 years....
So they now get a permit, take care of any penalties, maybe go before a board and it ends. Happens every day.
Robbing all of the state employees union folks of work they are entitled to...
Contractors are the ones who get permits in many cases.
I take it you don’t live in NYS? Where confiscatorily high property taxes are driving people out of their homes, keeping others out of homes? IN NYS, this could be a very big deal, if they were trying to avoid property taxes and/or cheating w/regard to the STAR program.
Homeowner still bear ultimate responsibility, however, for seeing that permits are pulled. AND prominently posted.
I guess property taxes are only for the little people, huh?
Of course they were cheating! It’s in their DNA and, of course, they would blame the contractor - blaming others is also in their DNA. I am a homeowner in NJ so you can well understand why my blood boils reading this story. Suddenly Leona Helmsley is looking like the soul of humility and honesty.
I live in NYS. I get it.
I bet they both wish this was their biggest problem in life so far, he he he he he he he he he he he he he he
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