San Diego Housing Bubble News and Analysis

The blondes thank you for the reminder. We need them.

Just put in the street name on the County Tax Collector's website after the due date and you can find out which of your neighbors are running out of wherewithal.

Look up sales history, infer loan balances and you can get a picture of street level inventory.

All clear on my street. My neighbor finally paid 2 years worth of backtaxes, including the $3k penalty. I guess he got a loan mod :)

It's amusing to do that on my street.
Half of the neighbors have owned the houses for 20 years or more - so their tax rate is ultra low.

Another 5-6 of us bought from our parents and inherited the prop-13 tax rate.

Then there are the remainder - who bought in the last 7-8 years - paying a lot more. Of course some of the old timers have improved the houses and that might kick it up a bit. (We fall in that category with the companion unit.)

I guess living on a street with 45 year old houses - and many residents who are original owners makes for an interesting snapshot of the effects of prop 13.

I wonder at what value the "county assessor's" house is assessed.

My lender pays our property taxes for us. We get a portion impounded every month towards property taxes. I don't like the fact I am losing interest earnings but noawadays that isn't much....I DO like the fact that I don't have to deal with paying my property taxes.

I like the fact that I can hang on to my money until the last possible second and then pay it online. I'm much better with my money than the County.

Like UCGal, looking at houses around me is funny. Some of the taxes are so tiny and cute I'm like hell, do you want me to get yours while I'm online too? ;)

If you pay online with a credit card it costs you 1.88% more. But you can "e-check" it for free. I didn't bother... I went old school paper check, envelope, and stamp.

Oh yeah, I'm not going to hoard all year only to give it up in CC fees! I do e-check. :D

I hear you. I get very resentful of "convenience fees." If I can avoid a fee or surcharge, I definitely will!

I pay with two checks for both properties, but only use one envelope to save on postage.

You can also do online bill pay w/ your bank. They'll send a live check out and cover the stamp cost.

For Orange County 93% of property tax paid. http://lansner.freedomblogging.com/2009/...

Anyone have stats for San Diego?

7% delinquent is quite high for a "wealthy" county.

In SD, our tax collector stopped publishing the data because it wasn't pretty. At least, I've not seen it lately