Laserfiche WebLink
3065 North Shore Drive <br />ID No, 09-117-23-32-0001 <br />George and Charmion Groom <br />The land; Our lot is 74 feet wide, about 600 feet deep. The house is <br />75 feet back from the lakeshore and a 2-car garage sits about 200 feet <br />back of that. There is a small tractor shed near the garage. <br />The House; Basic structure estimated to be about 125 years old, (Stone <br />foundation, rough-sawed timbers, etc,) Wo basement. Two bedrooms and <br />bath upstairs, one bedroom and half-bath down, ^ dining room. House <br />is poorly insulated. Water service from well. Roof has visible sag. <br />Major remodeling done in 1955, many "features" are now deteriorating. <br />Tax History: Over the past ten years, the Assessor's estimated market <br />value on our proi^erty has ranged from $138,500 in 1984 to $183,400 in <br />1992, with yearly increases averaging less than 1%, The 1993 estimate <br />was increased more than 33%, to $243,300, <br />In the 28 years we have lived here, we have already paid nearly twj.ce <br />as much in Real Estate taxes as we paid for the profjerty itself. <br />The Problem; The Assessor place.s great emphasis on tlie several sales, <br />in recent years,, of older homes for exorbitant prices, whereafter those <br />homes are tom down and new, ultra-expensive houses are built on the lot. <br />He seems to th.ink that could happen to our property and so justifies the <br />radical increase in estimated value. We feel, strongly, that these are <br />aberrant examples that should not effect uhe true value of our property, <br />for the following reasons; <br />1, The un-sound actions of a few persons with much money but little <br />common sense should not set standards for an entire community, <br />A 74-foot frontage does not provide attractive, practical gpace <br />for a now, expensive home,,,especially if the legal set-back <br />ordinances are obser\'^ed. Our house is less than 2 feet off the <br />west-side lot line. <br />We bought t)iis house as our retirement home, to live and die in, <br />not for sj>eculation or profiteering. At our age and with our <br />limitations, an aggressive research of comparable home values is <br />very difficult. As far as we know, there are no other 100-plus <br />year-old houses on 74 foot lots on Crystal Bay's north shore. <br />2. <br />3.