I have ground a mile in from MN. Property taxes around 30/acre. If it was a mile north, it would run 55-60/acre.
*Updated* MN advancing law that would ban the requirement of HOAs for new developments. Iowa does the opposite.
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Not sure how farm property is at all relevant to the discussion at hand
A somewhat common theme that has occurred some southern MN communities is that to pass school bonds they will push a large part to the farmland to keep residential taxes down. Therefore they can get a bind to pass since residential property taxes don’t get hit much.
You keep spouting your MN property taxes are 50% lower than your Iowa property tax. Just pointing out it's b/c someone else is paying the rest of the tax burden through farm property taxes, and income taxes. MN doesn't do it for less than Iowa since overall they are taxing higher than Iowa.
I didn't live in a farm in Iowa and I don't live in a farm in MN. In fact my county has about -zero- farmland. So unless some farmland 90 minutes away is paying for my local school bond, it's a moot point.
Not only that, we're talking about cities owning local stormwater ponds. Help me understand with specific details how a city without any farmland offsets its local stormwater maintenance costs to agland in a completely different part of the state.
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We've lived 20 years in an area with an HOA, and we have an area 4 block away without a HOA. The homes were similar in price when new, but it's stunning how you can instantly tell which area has an HOA. The non HOA area is filled with dumb choices. Chain link fences, dumb color choices, lack of trees, hillbilly looking sheds, visible garbage cans, etc. This isn't all the homes or even the majority but a few bad apples ruin the whole neighborhood.
In the 1990's in far north suburban Chicago, our church sold its building to a "black church." The preprinted form that was used for the deed had Caucasian-only clauses. The worst part is that my wife was getting her hair cut, talked about the church building sale, and the person cutting her hair said, "You can't do that." The legal issues had been settled decades before, but the racist mindset endured with some.
