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  • 01-01-2001 12:00 AM

    2007 House Bill 4286 (Revise delinquent property tax procedures )

    Introduced in the House on February 20, 2007

    Click here to view bill details.
  • 02-22-2007 12:59 AM In reply to

    what??

    Why don't we just waste even more resources tracking down these people. What kind of nutjob idea is this? Oh wait- it's from a Democrat Detroit rep. Why did I ask?
  • 03-02-2007 10:53 AM In reply to

    I think....

    Cheeks has too much time on her hands. Maybe she should get a hobby, like knitting!
  • 03-02-2007 10:57 AM In reply to

    When Was

    the last time you forgot to pay your property taxes. This creates another loophole for deadbeats. "Gee Whiz, I didn't know I had to pay them every year"
  • 03-29-2007 7:16 PM In reply to

    Personal agenda

    For those of you out of SE Michigan, you may not know that Rep Cheeks was on the front page of the Detroit News a couple of years ago for having delinquent property taxes at risk of foreclosure. She didn't like the embarrassment, so she thinks every county in Michigan should spend extra time and money to remind people that they have to pay their taxes. The law already requires certified mail, newspaper publication and a personal visit. What does she need, an engraved invitation?
  • 03-29-2007 7:41 PM In reply to

    Wayne County must have too much money!

    Rep. Cheeks must think Wayne County has too much money. I've scanned through this bill and then went to the Wayne County website. Under Rep. Cheeks bill, Wayne county would have to use certified mail for all its delinquent notices. It looks like about 5 mailings. Certified mail costs @ $4 more for each piece. According to their website, they have about 160,000 delinquent properties, at least for the first mailing. That's an additional cost of $640,000 for the first mailing. By the last mailing, they were down by about half. That's only an additional $320,000. Let's add $600, $500, and $400,000 for the mailings in between and we come up with an additional $2,500,000 in postage costs alone -- annually! Let's toss in another $250,000 for changing the publication from the Legal News to the Free Press, and adding another week. Plus finding 11 x 15 flurescent paper -- I'm sure that's a custom item. Add in the purchase of an office printer that can handle such outsized paper. And printing 100,000 pictures for the court file. I think another $3 million annually should do it. Now, Wayne County may not be the most efficient county in the state, but I'm betting the Treasurer doesn't have an extra $3 million in his office budget. No worry; I'm sure Rep. Cheeks will be glad to tell the County what services they should cut so that she isn't embarrassed again by having delinquent taxes. What an idiot!
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