McC and his girlfriend Mary Mary are having the taxpayer funded gala house tour Sunday.  Press conference and "fair" Sunday at 10 a.m. when most people would be in church.

Government employees at all levels of government will be there, of course that is on OT plus travel, per diems etc.

Open houses in the afternoon when people will be a graduation parties.


Began to wonder where the open house list was, then I realized today was Thursday not Friday but finally got the list.  Here it is.

As usual the ones highlighted in green are making repeat appearances.








Notes:

1. McC and the inept employees of the city and the "private partners" obviously didn't proofread again.   Remember last month there was a Rotterdam house on the city's tour?  This month there is a Niskayuna house on the tour.

2. There are 14 houses on this tour.  Clearly, the owners of six of the houses have already fled the city.  There is another, the Gerling St, it may or may no be empty, while there is furniture in it, it looks more like it's staged.

3.   The taxes on some of them just don't seem right.  Look at the two on Cleveland Ave and look at the taxes in relation to the assessment amount.  It's usually difficult to know exactly the taxes because some realtors, and I'm sure this would be the case with Mary Mary, if a house was owned by an elderly couple with a very very low income where they get enhanced STAR plus the aged 50% and maybe combat vet, the taxes would be reported in for sale ads based on that, and unsuspecting buyers would not learn how high the taxes really are until the get their first bill

Best thing to say for a bit more accurate tax amount is to divide the assessment amount by 1,00 then multiply that amount by 43.  After that, add $600 for an approximate total of the trash tax + the water tax + the sewer tax (these latter three which are NOT tax deductible).

4. Santa Fe St - previously listed in 2012 to early 2013, asking $86,000 to start and reduced to $82,000 then removed.  No listed again asking more than what it did not sell for previously.

5.  The Guilderland Ave house, which you've seen before, had been listed continuously since 2012 and was listed as MLS # 201221697.   As it is extremely embarrassing for McC and his girl Mary to admit that no one wants to buy in the city and the that a nice house in a nice area cannot sell after two years along with the fact that the asking price has been reduced a whopping 6 times--a total of $50,000 reduction, the conniving pair is lying to prospective buyers that makes it seem like the house is a brand new listing and using a 2014 MLS number.

It is worth nothing that the asking price of the house is now a whopping $50,000 below what the city has it assessed for.  Notice also that the owners have already fled this city.

6.  Wyoming Ave house, the current owners bought it in 2006 for $150,000.  After just a mere three years living there, the owners realized how bad the city is under the dem leadership and in 2009 put the house up for sale initially asking $179,900.  Here it is, five yeas later, the house has been listed on and off during these five years, and no one willing to move into the city and buy this house.  

The owners have gone through a whopping seven, that is 7, price reductions and just talking about the current asking price, these owners have already lost a whopping $15,000 on their "investment" in the city!  




This is just more evidence of failed leadership in the city WHICH MUST BE ACKNOWLEDGED and addressed soon in order to begin to turn the city around, to attract businesses that are not political cronies of the city/co/plex leadership, to attract businesses that will come here and stand on their own two feet without handouts from the taxpayers, to remove all existing tax exemptions for downtown in order to lower taxes on the homeowners which will then attract people into buying houses IN the city.

the nisky house must be on there as bait for the realtor...they have to be given hope they will sell at least one house on the list  

Home come none of the houses on Hamilton Hill are on the tour ?

Quoted from rpforpres

Home come none of the houses on Hamilton Hill are on the tour ?

Good question.

Something to ask DV.  Oh wait, he wouldn't know, he won't even put his pinky toe in the city.   Something to ask that Vince Riggi, the only councilperson to actually represents the taxpayers AND responds to their questions.

Based on the newspaper today, the list has been revised.

And again, if you see a "listing date" of 2013 but MLS # is 2014, it means the city and realtor are in cahoots to hide the fact that houses are listed for so long and not selling






By the way, beware of falling trees on the Haigh Ave house, I can't believe a realtor would allow photos like that to be shown, or even to allow an owner to list a house at such risk of major damage

The Central Pkwy house is beautiful. But why would anyone who could afford those taxes, on top of the mortgage, want to pick Schenectady above the surrounding areas?  There is not a single city provided service that isn't cheaper and better somewhere else.

Quoted from Parent

The Central Pkwy house is beautiful. But why would anyone who could afford those taxes, on top of the mortgage, want to pick Schenectady above the surrounding areas?  There is not a single city provided service that isn't cheaper and better somewhere else.

Got that right

Of course cheerleaders for the city who are NOT taxpayers will try to post that it's not true but they won't be able to produce one teeny shred of evidence.



A one family house in Schenectady pays $218 in trash "fee" IN ADDITION to an unknown about in their "tax."  In other words the total cost of trash collection is NOT paid for exclusively out of the "trash fee" that the former mayor of BS shoved upon the city homeowners (and which has seen an almost 100% increase in the tax in less than 10 years!).   In other words the cost of trash collection in the city comes from both the city taxes (that portion that is paid based on $X per thou of assessment) PLUS the "fee."   The fee is NOT tax deductible.

In Rotterdam for example, we pay slightly over $25 per month, granted, it's private collection (and cost is not tax deductible), but e get a FULL 52 weeks a year of trash collection   The city of Schenectady taxpayers do NOT get trash picked up 52 weeks each year.   In Rotterdam, we recycle substantially more than the city, and while the city mandates recycling, it is LAW, the FACT that the city dems are ignoring the law  by failing to enforce the law is causing the city to lose tons of money.   In Rotterdam, drive down the streets on collection day and everything is clean and neat.  Drive down any street in Schenectady city on trash day and trash is more often than not not in cans, bags often ripped, probably skunks and rats rummaging through it, etc.


In the town we pay a water district tax based on assessment and therefore tax deductible, (ours happens to be about $50 per year), and then there is a fee which had been $25 per year and now increased to $75 this year (this part is not deductible), so our total cost is about $125 per year, an equivalent house in the city would be closer to $250 per year.

In Rotterdam we pay no sewer tax, we have septic which we pay privately to have empties out about every three years at a cost of about $150 which works out to about $50 per year.  For an equivalent property in the city, based on property size and bathrooms, the sewer charge would be about $250 per year.  So the cost of sewer in the city is five times as high as in this town!   Granted there is a cost with installing a septic system, but for us, we have had no problems whatsoever, the system was installed by the previous owners and the tank is expected to have a life of at least 50 years.  We have a neighbor who had a new system installed about 5 years ago, they paid if I remember roughly $4,500 for their system, and over the life of 50 years that's less than $100 per year compared to Schenectady's sewer charge in today's dollars which is about $250 (for a house equivalent to ours) and for which that fee will probably be $1,000 per year in 50 years from now.

The tax bill is much less in this town for something equivalent in the city.  If we get an overnight snowstorm, we almost always have gotten plowed by 7 a,m., in the city people are lucky to see a plow by 6 P.M.   Services are better here than in the city HOWEVER things are starting to go downhill in the town, businesses are closing and many empty places (the old Kmart, the old Grand Union, the empties in Hannaford, for a few examples), and there are an increasing number of unkempt houses and a spattering of abandoned houses, it's creeping in from Schenectady.

Quoted from Parent

The Central Pkwy house is beautiful. But why would anyone who could afford those taxes, on top of the mortgage, want to pick Schenectady above the surrounding areas?  There is not a single city provided service that isn't cheaper and better somewhere else.

That house is absolutely beautiful, yes.  Well except for that carpeting upstairs and up the stairs, but that's an easy inexpensive fix.  And being so close to Central Park, but sadly the city is largely ignoring the park (thought I did see they will have paddle boats this year).  I can't help but remember those wonderful years when he city knew there was a Central Park, and they had that wonderful Tuesday In the Park, we went a number of times, parked at some friends' off upper Union St and walked over.  And the houses on those streets near the entrance to the park, the residents were clearly either relaxing in their lounge chairs, some entertaining friends all sitting in the front, some even seemed to be having BBQ's in the front of their houses while waiting for the wonderful fireworks' show.