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Marion County Treasurer is robbing the poor

Oct 29, 2009
Felicia - Indianapolis

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...and giving to the Landlord, Investor, and Developers

 

All is quiet on the tax front.

 

I stumbled across this trying to find the order of hierarchy as to who the Marion county treasurer answers to. I underestimated them when I said the do-do was gonna hit the fan, after reading my mother's recent bill. All of us who got hit hard think everyone is in the same boat. WRONG.

 

It appears the reason the tax schedule has been so off and disorganized is because the Marion County assessor has systematically been working on a covert strategy to guarantee the displacement of "certain folks" in selected areas, and that takes time.

 

The site's Property Tax Viewer used together with Google (by copy/pasting a selected address into Google's search bar) allows interested developers and investors to shop without leaving the comfort of their home or office; allowing them to plan their next move with ease and efficiency; Ready to snap up property for the price of unpaid taxes.

 

All I have to say is we won the battle getting a black president but the powers that be have pulled knives from the briefcases to stab us in the back. They've been hiding in the shadows plotting. This little obscure website just proves it. They're counting on their chosen targets to lack resources, such as the one I'm using here to expose the site I found. They believed that placating the majority would allow them to pass the cost on to the minority. Indiana is not about to absorb the decreases it promised.

 

I posted a letter to Representative Andre Carson on his site. Here is what I wrote:

 

Dear Representative Carson,

 

I'm writing on behalf of my mother -----. She just received her property tax notice. It has gone from a 2008 assessed value of $65,000 to an assessed value of $108,300. How can this be? She was just denied a reverse mortgage.

 

She submitted an application based on the 2008 assessed value. The lender stated that based on the appraisal of the property, (less than $30,000) and the surrounding properties it would not be possible to grant because of FHA required repairs needed to this property.

 

In a time when homes have lost their value, and owners are struggling with upside down mortgages, how did this property which is visually clear from the curb in need of repair merit a $43,300 increase? My mother is 80 years old with a heart condition. She has taken to her bed worried that she's about lose her home. This assessment is just wrong. Please help, not only my mother, but others in this area who I'm sure are just as afraid.

 

The Indy.gov site is a clarion call if we (even the middle to upper middle class black folks) are going to come out of this alive. It's not just the poor areas. Even in the "better areas" the treasurer's office has been a tornado skipping one or more houses and landing on another seemingly at random. Just look at the Tarkington condominiums compared to the Towers across the street.

 

Study this map well. Click the hand icon to move the page, click the (i)icon then click on the boxes representing the property to pull up information on the owner and the current assessment back to 2007.

 

Concerned Citizen

 

Here is the URL:

 

http://maps.indy.gov/propertyassessmentviewer//

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