Kane co folks, check your privileage

[Yaj Yak]

Why? LOL

working where you work, commute would be cake and you get so much more for your money getting out of where you are.

 

[Chet Donnelly]

Water softeners go for around $1k for a decent one? Yea, I hope the septic would be okay, but you can have a back up on public sewer, no?

Or you can have a sewer line collapse and cost you $5k. Ask me how I know...

 

[Yaj Yak]

id rather have that issue than having to replace an entire septic.

 

[CuzzinOlaf]

Or you can have a sewer line collapse and cost you $5k. Ask me how I know...

How do you know?

 

[Chet Donnelly]

How do you know?

Great times!

 

[CuzzinOlaf]

Eeeek, did anything back up inside the house?

 

[Chet Donnelly]

Luckily only into the bathtub.

 

[radioguy6]

Great times!

Tree roots?

 

[Chet Donnelly]

Tree roots?

Exactly what it was. When they dug up my yard it was nuts how many tree roots were under ground.

It was the original clay piping from the 50's....didn't have a chance.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

I've had to deal with a semi collapse clay pipe and it sucks ass digging to get to replacing it

 

[Chet Donnelly]

Did you dig without a backhoe?!?!

 

[radioguy6]

Exactly what it was. When they dug up my yard it was nuts how many tree roots were under ground.

It was the original clay piping from the 50's....didn't have a chance.

yeah pretty common for older homes. I have a huge oak tree right near my lateral pipe, thankfully previous owner had it changed out to PVC. Most houses by me are 50+ years old, I see front lawns dug up all the time.

 

[saliv8]

Lost a board in the variable frequency drive for one of my chillers. $12k part. Don't have labor skilled enough to diagnose and replace? Add another grand.

Chillers can be somewhat inexpensive if the numbers are ran vs all the other options. RTU's, window shakers, electric heat, and maybe some boilers I would think might be more practical in schools Im aware of.

If they actually have chillers, towers, etc. then the facility maintenance crew must be large.

And that board of yours would have a warranty, and if out of warranty the new one would come with one. 12g-15g is a drop in the bucket of more than 1/2 a mil. Theres not tons of stuff that go bad on chillers, typically. Small items like you showed, yes.

 

[Mike K]

Your tax bill is a mortgage.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Got my new bill yesterday. Went up 125 dollhairs. $4802 up from 4677. And that's with disabled vet exemption. It'd be around $5400 if I didn't have that.

#privilege

 

[Eagle]

Just got mine yesterday. Went down almost 1700 after we fought them last year. I'm down to $5100/yr which is the lowest its ever been by a long shot. 3 years ago I was paying over 8k!

 

[Chester Copperpot]

I should probably fight them this year but alas, I'm still paying under many, many people.

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

Just got mine yesterday. Went down almost 1700 after we fought them last year. I'm down to $5100/yr which is the lowest its ever been by a long shot. 3 years ago I was paying over 8k!

Did you get a tax appraisal? what basis did they lower it on? over taxed vs what other similar houses were taxed, or over valued vs the comp sale prices?

I'm going to fight them every year until if and when I bail.

 

[Eagle]

Did you get a tax appraisal? what basis did they lower it on? over taxed vs what other similar houses were taxed, or over valued vs the comp sale prices?

I'm going to fight them every year until if and when I bail.

Sarah did it all based off comps from the online tax site for McHenry Cty. It's all based on EAV, that's where you argue from.