Posted on 04/14/2021 8:17:04 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Have you done any comparative analysis of the costs of grounds and fencing upkeep, intake counseling, burials, security, utilities, overhead and records management?
Our family is grateful to have literally dozens of graves in a very well-managed and maintained cemetery near a dense city. We can go and decorate the resting places of four generations, and know that the grass will always be cut, the roadways maintained, the water supply running for the flower urns, and maintenance crews out and around to keep us safe from any nearby urban intruders looking for the purses or car keys of grieving widows. Even my male cousins pack when going there, but so far (75 years) none of them has reported any trouble.
With our churches, governments, relations between nations and sexes, and in fact much of Western Civilization in disarray, I’m glad these particular grounds are still a place of respect and serenity.
The land has no market value. It can’t be developed. The owner must maintain a cemetery.
In FL my wife and I got warranty deeds for our plots.
We don’t pay real estate taxes I suspect for one reason: once we croak, the press would be awful for the taxing authorities to seize occupied plots for taxes. Not worth the meager revenue.
OTOH, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn of some tax arrangement for plots in the usual hell-holes of NY, CA, IL, NJ, MA.
I don’t think they are supposed to pay that. I wasn’t complaining at all. Actually was trying to think of some way to get a caretake job living on the cemetery grounds to avoid taxation.
I knew a guy (sadly now deceased) that bought a decommissioned church with an adjacent cemetery. He rehabbed the church to use it as a residence. He told me that they deal was that he was responsible to maintain the cemetery as long as he lived there, and that would apply to any future owners.
kinda explains why people are dying to get there...
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