Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Rent, Fee Relief Matter of Survival for Mullica Woods Residents
From the Press of Atlantic City article, dated 2/04/09: Mullica Woods residents are pleading with the state and local officials for compassion in the form of rent freezes and pad-fee reductions. For the full article, click here.
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If the township reduces its fee to help cover the cost of the municipal services that the mobile home owners receive, then the rest of Mullica's residents will have to pick up these costs through higher property taxes. These services will still have to be paid for by someone.
This is what can happen in "senior Communities". The fees go up year after year. That money goes to a private owner who maintains the grounds,pool,clubhouse,etc. plus his profit.
The seniors use the town roads,the police Dept. the transfer station and the ambulance service.
The only other things I get as a homeowner with no children in the system now, is the prompt chipping of fallen tree limbs by the town and free mulch.
Our other free service of marriage performing was recently discontinued.
The mobile home owners have access to and use the same municipal services as everyone else in town yet they do not pay any property taxes on their homes. The $39-a-month municipal "pad" fee is in lieu of taxes to help cover these services. It seems like a real bargain when you consider what the rest of us are paying for the same services, whether we use them or not. (Fire, Police, Ambulance, Road Maintenance, Rent Control, Zoning Enforcement and Safety Inspections, Bulk Trash Removal, Pet Vaccinations, Voting Rights, etc.) We all have to chip in one way or another. Some of us are paying a lot more than others, whether we can afford to or not...
Just about everyone's hurting these days. We need relief from our property taxes too. Help!
That pad fee is $468 a year for the same things that I'm getting for $8000 a year. They are giving the bulk of their money to a private corporation. The only way to fight this would be to have it in writing that the fee would never be raised when they bought their place. Obviously, that is not in their contracts.
The next senior community planned in this town will have all these problems plus the added joys of polluted land,trains and whistles at all hours,heavy traffic and who knows who the landlord will be in this deal.
Don't worry Chasey and Forman will save the day!
The "PAD" fee is NOT instead of taxes, it is ADDITION to the real estate taxes the landlord pays. Plus, Mullica Woods has its own trash pickup. Residents do not go to transfer station. Note: The $618+ a month lot rent is the highest in the state, with little return. Check out the other "senior" communities yourself.
The taxes paid per month on each home is $39.00 per month, which would be $468.00 per homeowner according to the article in the Press. For this they even get trash pick up? Residents in town, paying much higher taxes don't even get that unless they pay for it separately and hire private contractor.
Is the trash taken to our transfer station?
This tidbit actually hurts the cause, in my mind, as a taxpayer in Mullica because I don't get these services for $39 a month.
It seems like you have a beef with the property owner about what he is charging you to rent the land. I wouldn't mind paying $39/mo. for the little township services I get. I'm a senior too!
It would seem to me you have to take the total property tax paid by the landowner and divide it by the number of units and add $468 to that number to get the effective property tax paid per household. That should tell if the tax is reasonable or not.
Chasey and Forman are pandering to these people, trawling for votes for November. Any possible relief that they could give them would come directly from the pockets of other taxpayers in Mullica. We are all under financial pressure in this economy. Fixed income? What about the people who have lost their jobs? And isn't the Mullica Woods spokesman, Mr. Maholland, sucking up a fat state pension? He is making more money than many working citizens in Mullica. Shameful...
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