Posted on 11/27/2017 5:39:34 AM PST by reaganaut1
Hadn't been... what?
Sorry, but you both are on the wrong page.
Jett didn't own the property, the City of New Orleans did.
the Garrets paid New Orleans, not Jett.
Except for your first sentence, you and I are on the same page. You’ve made some incorrect inferences regarding the information on which I base my opinion in my previous posts.
I also may have worded them poorly.
The idea is that unless there is public notification of the demolition, the city is responsible to pay up the current owners and CERTAINLY not charge them for the demoltion.
Subsequent posts show that there may have been a demolition sign on the property and the new owners got notification, verbally only, that it was not going to happen.
I suggest a reading of the first chapter of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Bureaucracies are fiefdoms. They deliberately operate independent of each other. Each is jealous of its absolute power over as broad an interpretation of its code authority as conceivable. Rarely will one department of government accede to the authority of another.
I had the date wrong, obviously.
“Garrett said his real estate agent noticed in late December 2015 or early January 2016 that a sign had been posted on the property declaring an impending demolition. Garrett said he immediately called the city because he had never received a formal notice, and the city told him the problem would be fixed.”
http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2016/11/new_orleans_demolished_house_a.html
“New Orleans is the only city more corrupt than Chicago.”
AH, com’on...Let’s face it..many older Eastern cities qualify as ‘most corrupt’..Trace mafia families and see the tracks/history of them...
Baltimore is more corrupt than either
Now that there is some GOOOoooood governmenting!
or someone in city government wants it as their own personal gold mine.
NP, but that first sentence was the item I was referring to. It is, after all, “on the same page”, no? :-)
That's always a possibility, but there was a big change in New Orleans property tax assessment system since Katrina. At the time that Mr. Jett lost this property at a tax sale (it was adjudicated to the city, which usually means there were no third-party bidders), the city was divided into seven municipal districts, each with its own tax assessor, office and support staff. A few years after the storm, the city cut that redundancy and put it all in one assessor's control.
Though all seven assessors should've been feeding tax sale information into the tax rolls for ownership information updates back in 1998, I can tell you that some districts were staffed with older women who, despite pushing the retirement age a bit, still did a competent job. Other districts had younger women behind the counters, most of whom seemed more interested in painting their fingernails or reading cheap romance novels than attending to customers.
Bottom line, this could easily have been a data entry which was lost by the old assessor, and not found by the new assessor. Remember Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
I'll bet there are many more such landmines out there in the New Orleans tax rolls. The city should damned well perform a CYA info check before swinging the wrecking ball.
Based on that photo, I think I see the problem.
Don’t forget the wear and tear on the keyboard used to write the letter, the paper and toner to print it, paper clips, envelope, postage and handling, and bathroom tissue used during breaks while contemplating the case.
Hubris? Arrogance? Stupidity?
5.56mm
“left hand does not know what the right hand is doing”
The IRS when not incentivized to hunt TeaPartiers.
“That would be bad enough, if they then just admitted their errors, which too often they won’t.”
And to avoid paying for these screwups, they will expend public funds in excess of what it would have cost the to pay for their error. The are like a bunch of male dogs licking their balls. They do it because they can.
I’m going to have the city of New Orleans charge you $735,394.83 for posting your opinion.
Wait? Lazamataz is Louisiana Zamataz?
Your joke just cost you $24,283,736.93 in Humor Taxes.
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