So, what does this board's cheerleader for the dems and downtown who claims "the mayor and his team are doing a wonderful job" and claims the city is in a renaissance.....what does DV have to say about yet another politically connected tax deadbeat?????

it's done everywhere in some shape or form.

in rottendam...the powers that be give their friends and family club members, tax breaks on their properties.
they hire their friends and family club members. they create patronage jobs.

and it didn't matter whether they were dem or rep.

it's great you show this...but it is EVERYWHERE!!!! And both the dems and reps are guilty!!!!!!!!!!

It's how politics is played. it's not right...but that's the way it's done and has been done historically!!

But these are not "tax exemptions."

These are people who are tax delinquent, tax deadbeats.

Where is the list of tax foreclosures for 2014?


Remember a few years ago when the city was running the foreclosure list on King Phillip's TV station 24/7?

Why aren't they doing it now?

Maybe they're waiting for their Federal Income Tax refund to pay it off?

Quoted from bumblethru

it's done everywhere in some shape or form.

in rottendam...the powers that be give their friends and family club members, tax breaks on their properties.
they hire their friends and family club members. they create patronage jobs.

and it didn't matter whether they were dem or rep.

it's great you show this...but it is EVERYWHERE!!!! And both the dems and reps are guilty!!!!!!!!!!

It's how politics is played. it's not right...but that's the way it's done and has been done historically!!

Yep. Maybe someday folks will figure that out and do something about it.

But judging from what's posted here, and what you hear on the street, nothing is going to change. Ever.

Oh, and this is for mikechristine1. I DON'T CARE WHAT DV THINKS!! I've decided that your DV mantra isn't worth the effort of ignoring and un-ignoring you, so I've put you back on ignore and won't waste MY time reading any more of your posts. The good stuff is totally negated by the other garbage.

we know folks that were FIVE years behind on their taxes before they even STARTED the foreclosure process. So three years is nothing. And don't fool yourself...the REPS would be doing the same exact thing!!

And again......you could vote ALL REPS in...and the ONLY thing that would change is the faces and names of the 'friends and family club'!!!

MC1....it's time you focus on changing the SYSTEM....not the political party!!
abolishing the county leg and going to a 'board of supervisors' is a start!

Quoted from Alva White

Oh, and this is for mikechristine1. I DON'T CARE WHAT DV THINKS!! I've decided that your DV mantra isn't worth the effort of ignoring and un-ignoring you, so I've put you back on ignore and won't waste MY time reading any more of your posts. The good stuff is totally negated by the other garbage.

Quoted from Alva White

Yep. Maybe someday folks will figure that out and do something about it.

But judging from what's posted here, and what you hear on the street, nothing is going to change. Ever.

Oh, and this is for mikechristine1. I DON'T CARE WHAT DV THINKS!! I've decided that your DV mantra isn't worth the effort of ignoring and un-ignoring you, so I've put you back on ignore and won't waste MY time reading any more of your posts. The good stuff is totally negated by the other garbage.

Guess my research proving the truths about the city and the politically connected hurts too much to read.    So many hide and avoid comment when confronted with the truth



Financially struggling homeowners pay for the property and school taxes of the millionaires and billionaires downtown.   Then homeowners have to pay additional taxes for the many years delinquencies of the taxable properties owned by politically connected.   And the non politically connected lose their homes while the politically connected cronies keep theirs

Quoted from mikechristine1

Guess my research proving the truths about the city and the politically connected hurts too much to read.    So many hide and avoid comment when confronted with the truth



Financially struggling homeowners pay for the property and school taxes of the millionaires and billionaires downtown.   Then homeowners have to pay additional taxes for the many years delinquencies of the taxable properties owned by politically connected.   And the non politically connected lose their homes while the politically connected cronies keep theirs

the truth doesn't 'hurt'! Never did! But most realize that there is little to nothing that can be done EXCEPT....start to change the system!!

It's the way it is and the way it would be no matter if it was a dem or rep in power. THAT is the part you are missing!! The SYSTEM needs to be changed!

Become pro-active....start going door to door.....get folks involved.....flood the city/county meetings....go with pitchfork in hand. If it doesn't start at the grassroots level.....NOTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE!!!!

so even tho you find and expose this information....exactly WHAT are folks suppose to do with it?? Exactly what they continue to do...sit back and bit@h!!

remember....the reps are biting at the bit to take control of all that power!!! But rest assured...they would do the same thing!!!

WORK AT CHANGING THE SYSTEM!

Quoted from bumblethru

the truth doesn't 'hurt'! Never did! But most realize that there is little to nothing that can be done EXCEPT....start to change the system!!

It's the way it is and the way it would be no matter if it was a dem or rep in power. THAT is the part you are missing!! The SYSTEM needs to be changed!

Become pro-active....start going door to door.....get folks involved.....flood the city/county meetings....go with pitchfork in hand. If it doesn't start at the grassroots level.....NOTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE!!!!

so even tho you find and expose this information....exactly WHAT are folks suppose to do with it?? Exactly what they continue to do...sit back and bit@h!!

remember....the reps are biting at the bit to take control of all that power!!! But rest assured...they would do the same thing!!!

WORK AT CHANGING THE SYSTEM!

Thanks for making those points. Maybe I wasn't clear enough myself. It dismays, saddens, annoys, deflates and perplexes me to no end that nobody gets that.

If all that is done is to continually post problems here and never do anything else, than nothing will change. It's pretty simple actually. And people have been complaining about the same things for decades. And nothing changes Because we would rather sit on our asses and complain, than actually roll up our sleeves and take action. I don't understand it.

Let's be clear about something else too. All the info that mikechristine1 posts is available to us all. The only thing he does is the leg work for which I applaud him. But to be honest we could all be "Real Estate Detectives" ourselves. But once we find the info what are we going to do with it. If history tells me anything, it's probably nothing. We'd rather b**ch about it than work to fix it.

Anyway if you'd like to be a sleuth like mikechristine1, here are a couple of links:

With this one you can search for a property. If you know the name of the person who owns the property you can use that as a search term. Also the address can be searched for.

http://64.132.212.43/imate/index.aspx


I especially like this one, as it's a map. It's the Schenectady Internet Mapping System, also known as SIMS. You can click on a property and a pop up will give you the owner, assessed value and some other information.

http://www.simsgis.org/sims_lite/

what would the next step be since this conversation has been nicely going on....and I don't mean just the conversation here
on this forum, but people have been individually approaching their local government/leaders to point this sh!t out along with
sending letters to the local paper.....

there is only one step left that I can see, unless you have another idea

it just shouldn't be that difficult for taxpayers to approach their government with grievances....unless of course the government
is just too busy worry and protecting the 'yacht owners'.....also, controlled by the 'yacht owners'....all under the guise of
collecting someone's f'en fair share......

I think the only step left is the one that I see.....

Wanna REALLY get their attention???? And let's see who has the balls to do this....


Every single property owner in Schenectady......................

DON'T PAY YOUR SCHOOL TAXES!!!!!!
DON'T PAY YOUR PROPERTY TAXES!!!!

Hey...there is already proof that you got AT LEAST three years!!

Put the money aside.....BUT DON'T PAY THEM!!!

EVERYONE GO TO THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING WITH TAX BILL IN HAND. In fact make a copy of it and rip it up right in front of them!!!

Watch the media attention Schenectady will get....AND....it's an election year!!!!!!

THAT WOULD SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE CORRUPT GOVERNMENT!!!!!

WE THE PEOPLE..... HAVE THE POWER!!!

Biggest problem is that the current city leaders, county leaders and Metroplex will NEVER do anything negative for their favored cronies.

But to the average homeowner the leaders say "Tough sh*t"

These good homeowners, in elections, vote against these corrupt leaders, but those opposing votes usually lose because the non-taxpaying and NON-RESIDENT downtown property owners give hefty campaign donations to the current leaders.  And also these current leaders try to give the voters the standard cheerleading message, "the city is in a renaissance" and "we are doing a wonderful job."   They will say "look at these fancy light poles, the gold ceiling at Proctors, the beautiful new buildings, etc"

But the leaders do NOT say "our tax base was X and today it has fallen to Y."   The leaders will NOT report "last year we had X number of tax foreclosures, this year the number of tax foreclosures has increased to Y."   They will NOT show the "before" photos of nice clean residential streets in neighborhoods and the "after" photos showing the SAME streets filled with dilapidated buildings.   They will NOT come out and say "home values have fallen by X%" or "5 years ago you could sell your house for $100,000 and today you can only sell your house for $50,000."  They will NOT come out and say "we have saved taxpayers money by cutting back on filling potholes, by cutting the raking of leaves in the park, by cutting back on snowplowing, etc."   Instead they say "we are making a wonderful effort at filling potholes, etc."   They will NEVER say to voters "there are no stores to shop downtown, but there are lots of gin mills which your taxes paid for."  Instead they will say "downtown is looking magnificent and there are so many places for people to go."   They will NEVER say, "Galesi is a billionaire but we are making you homeowners pay his taxes."   Theses leaders put stories in the paper that "such and such property is paying $200,000 in PILOT."  But they will NEVER NEVER NEVER say "Such and such property is paying $200,000 in PILOT, and you homeowners are paying the additional $800,000 that such and such is not paying because we gave them a tax break; oh, we never give homeowners a tax break."

Notice how their TAX DEADBEAT crony Mary Mary, at these so called press conferences at the periodic open houses spews nonsense babble saying "we have 75 houses under contract," but when you look 6 molnths down the road only 40 houses have sold in 6 months time.   The leaders will NOT provide an itemized listing of what houses are "under contract" and what houses have actually sold.   They will NOT say "here is the assessment value, here is the original asking price, here is the selling price, and the time it took for the house from list date to sale date was 2 years and 6 months."

The problem is that the good homeowners who have brains, have fled the city.   Their houses can be seen in the for sale ads, and the photos show the empty houses.  

You have to wonder how much the city paid to these 1,000 or so "instagrammers" (who do NOT pay taxes) to brag that the city is wonderful.  And what's worse, they are the ones that will be voting for the two dem candidates this fall and will vote dem next year -- all because there are so many gin mills for them to go to.

Quoted from bumblethru

Wanna REALLY get their attention???? And let's see who has the balls to do this....


Every single property owner in Schenectady......................

DON'T PAY YOUR SCHOOL TAXES!!!!!!
DON'T PAY YOUR PROPERTY TAXES!!!!

Hey...there is already proof that you got AT LEAST three years!!

Put the money aside.....BUT DON'T PAY THEM!!!

EVERYONE GO TO THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING WITH TAX BILL IN HAND. In fact make a copy of it and rip it up right in front of them!!!

Watch the media attention Schenectady will get....AND....it's an election year!!!!!!

THAT WOULD SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE CORRUPT GOVERNMENT!!!!!

WE THE PEOPLE..... HAVE THE POWER!!!

FINALLY!!!!! OMG!!! I've been waiting for this. Someone offered a solution rather than b**ch about how bad things are. Thank you bumblethru!

Sadly though, I doubt anyone here has "the balls" to do it.