Posted on 10/03/2016 3:31:56 AM PDT by dynachrome
Try a reverse mortgage.
Seattle......microsft a contribution to insanity
Sell your house and move down here to the north woods
Is Social Security all that you are living on? If so that was very bad planning on your part. It was also bad planning to let things go this far. You could have sold your house, paid off your tax debt and used the rest to move to a place with a lower cost of living. The good news is that when your house is sold there still should be some left over. You need to leave Washington State.
Every day, walk over to City Hall or the mayor’s home, and throw out 5 pounds of bird seed.
Enlist others.
Keep it up every day.
Tell everyone you are feeding the homeless.
State of Jefferson
The leftist news org will not report on this issue until Trump take office.
The county I live in (Prince William County, VA - about 20 miles south of Washington DC), provides property tax relief for low income retirees.
Isn’t similar relief available to you from King County?
Sounds like the “travelers” have arrived in Seattle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Travellers#Land_disputes
“What do you do with twenty-eight little eight and nine-year-old kids who just want to play sports?”
Their parents have voted for this mess. What’s the problem? They got what they asked for, it seems. Sit back and enjoy it, libs.
I’m not sure SatinDoll’s house is in King County. From reports of relatives who have traveled in coastal Washington State recently and from reading, it seems like the economy outside the tech segment in the Seattle-Tacoma area has never recovered from the 2008-2009 Great Recession. With sky high property taxes, it seems possible that a few years of past due taxes could equal or exceed the collapsed value of a home.
But why would socialists care about this? The result is that detested private property escheats to the State, to be used “for the good of all.”
I planned. The 401K disappeared when the company I worked for was bought by ENRON. They changed all pensions to ENRON stock, and when ENRON went tits-up, so did my pension.
The house in unsalable as it can not be mortgaged. It is basically a tear-down.
I inherited the house from my deceased parents. They promised to leave money so I would not have to work after they passed. (I took care of them from 1999 on, which happened to be prime wage-earning years for me.) My father died in 2012 having endured three terminal illnesses, so there was no money left.
There are somethings which can not be planned for in one’s life.
I’m so sorry.
I doubt the big bear will agree to that....would be nice though
I had assumed King County because the article was about Seattle. However, you are correct, SatinDoll did not state where in Washington state the home was located.
I briefly owned a house in Seattle in the mid-1970s while attending the University of Washington on a military scholarship. It was located in the Greenlake neighborhood about half a block from the lake. It was an older house (built @ 1920?) but in relatively good condition. Two bedrooms, large basement (multiple additional bedrooms possible) and a separate one car garage with a servicing pit in the floor!! It still has the same footprint on the lot and same street view when I look at it on Google Earth. So, it doesn’t appear to have been expanded since I owned it. Bought it for $20K in 1975. Gave it to my first wife as part of a divorce property settlement in 1977.
The neighborhood even then was starting to see the first inflow of capital from the California housing boom. A block further up along the same street, three adjacent homes were purchased for their lots, torn down, and a magnificent modern home of stone and glass was built on the combined lot.
Houses on the street now go for $700K and up depending on how extensively they have been renovated. I recently saw one on the same size lot as mine being listed for $1.3 million. The 2016 county property tax on that property ($1.3 M) would be $11,440.00 according to this estimator:
http://www.tax-rates.org/washington/king_county_property_tax
King County does have a program to aid low income seniors to reduce, defer, or exempt them from payment of property taxes:
http://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/assessor/Common-Questions/Seniorss.aspx
The maximum income limits are well above the DHHS poverty level. So a person living solely on social security should qualify.
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