Don Taylor's Real Estate Blog

My 6/13/07 e-mail to Senator Dennis Jones is copied below...I STRONGLY urge EVERYONE to CALL their SENATOR and maybe the Democratic leadership as well...

Subject: The Proposed "Tallahasee Special" & Will Rogers

please GET SERIOUS, show some LEADERSHIP, and do not just do the "Politically Easy" thing and appease those with Homestead Exemptions

Florida's 2nd home owners, FUTURE retirees, commercial property interests and MORE are almost literally being ROBBED and have been since 2001....Remember, our "Winter Guests" only use our roads, sewers, and water for 3-6 mos of the year! They truly are "The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg" for Florida...THEY NEED REPRESENTATION, too!

Government SPENDING is out of control, revenues have swollen grossly at the exense of the afore-mentioned and LEADERSHIP is required to correct the past (and future) abuses. I have attached Pin Co Prop Appraiser Jim Smith's info on YOUR home and the history of it's value is shown below, here....

It is fair for you to look at your on home's increase in VALUE (NOT tax bill) as "roughly" parallelling the tax rolls across this state. the Govt's have been unjustly enriched during this time...since 2001 your home's value has increased by 218%....'06 over '05 was 27%, 05' over '04 was 22% and '04 over '03 was 19%...
Year     Value
2006     735,200
2005     579,300
2004     475,800
2003     399,200
2002     368,000
2001     338,700
2000     265,300
1999     243,900
1998     242,900



RHETORIC is just that...DON'T LISTEN to the nonsense being spewed by the Police and Fire UNIONS....

CONSIDER the retailer who marks up his prices by 100% and THEN has a 50% off sale....THAT'S exactly what's going on....values and revenues have doubled and we're being offered a 9% reduction???

Will Rogers said it best when he said: "Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one third the money twenty years ago". Sadly, that needs to now be paraphrased to be more like 5 years ago....

PLEASE DO THE RIGHT THING FOR ALL OF THE RESIDENTS AND REPRESENT OUR PROPERTY RIGHTS EQUILATERALLY

Best regards,

-Don Taylor, P.A. / Broker Salesman, CRS & e-Pro