If you’re a homeowner in city limits (on or before 1/1/06), make sure to check the Assessment District Refunds page at the city’s Website to see if you’ve got a refund coming your way. The county assessor’s site has a parcel viewer tool to look up your parcel number (if’n you ain’t got that memorizized. Something about dealing with the local gub’mint makes me want to talk like a hillbilly.) so you can look up your refund on a PDF document. (Ahh, technology–a super high tech asp.net web app to look up your number, but for the refunds info you need to Control-F on a PDF file.)
I didn’t get one, but there’s some pretty sweet government cheese to be had.
Also in real estate news … the morning’s Wall Street Journal reports that we’re No. 2 on the list of cities where houses on the market have had prices reduced. Only Boston has higher percentage, leading the list with 46.4 percent of houses listed for sale having had prices reduced.
Sacramento is at 42.15 percent … ahead of Orange County, San Diego, Los Angeles and the SF Bay Area.
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