“According to city-data.com, mean price of a detached home in Healdsburg is $640,012. This would be yearly tax of $6,400 on top of property taxes the owner is already paying.”
Under Proposition 13, property taxes are set at 1% of purchase price, and they can be raised a maximum of 2% of that value per year, plus the debt service on any voter-approved bonds. That’s it. The idea that Healdsburg can unilaterally double the base property tax from 1 to 2% isn’t going to happen. And the last time I looked, it was perfectly legal to own real property and not live in it all the time, or any time at all.
And the last time I looked, it was perfectly legal to own real property and not live in it all the time, or any time at all.
At some level, it becomes an invasion of privacy. What’s next; the city could decide an owner has “too many” bedrooms for the number of people in the house so the house is not being “fully utilized”. It’s all very soviet.