From: Bob Ward 
Newsgroups: misc.consumers misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Please explain (appraisal fee question)
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 03:17:09 GMT

On 22 Jul 2004 16:31:22 -0700, clifffreeling@yahoo.com (Cliff
Freeling) wrote:

>vze8f3tq@verizon.net (v) wrote in message news:<40fff6d8.810609@news.verizon.net>...
>> On 21 Jul 2004 14:28:47 -0600, someone wrote:
>> 
>> >But this reminds me of an idea I had sometime back for settling the
>> >whole problem.  The county sets an appraisal on your land.  If you
>> >think it's too high, you tell the county to buy it for that figure.
>> >Presto, no more disputes.  Or you could do it the other way around:
>> >every year the county sends you a form where you say how much your
>> >property is worth.  If they disagree, they have the right to buy it at
>> >that price.
>> >
>> This is NOT any new idea.  It has floated around in taxation
>> literature for decades.  I think Sun Yat Sen proposed this for the
>> Republic of China before Mao, and he didn't think of it either.
>> 
>> OK class, can anyone see the problems?  Because there are many.
>
>Maybe I've missed something, but where is it written that the county
>is obligated to buy anyone's property?  And my county doesn't ever
>send around any form, AFIK, asking me what my property is worth.


Yes, you've missed something.  Reread the proposal above.