Kevin Leininger wrote this for the News-Sentinel on October 4, 2008:
"To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, those officials should develop a mutually acceptable method that allows people like Bauman to trust their assessments by being able to verify them.
Right now, they can't."
Leininger was writing in response to Aboite Township refusal to disclose comparable properties used to establish a rental home. The justification for not disclosing the information by the assessing community is that it could prevent landlords from truly disclosing how much they really get for their rental properties!!!! Nope, its really about the devaluing theory. The devaluing theory fear as espoused by Senator David Long as to why values are not being disclosed. These folks what to maintain a fairy tale that is everything is all right in their special neighborhoods, property values only goes down in minority neighborhoods, hahahaha
According to Leininger in his article:
"John Rogers, attorney for the Allen County Property Tax Board of Appeals, acknowledged the secrecy can complicate landlords' appeals - how can you challenge an assessment without knowing which properties were compared to yours? - but said the greater good justifies the process."
Is John Rogers an attorney who sits on the Allen County Property Tax Board of Appeals sanctioning landlords' failure to disclose information? I think Judge Thomas Fisher would like to hear about this case, if not the Attorney General himself, is that not Republican Steven Carter, who has failed the taxpayers of Allen County and many other counties something miserably during this predatory lending crisis.
More in Leininger's article:
"That's another very good question. Bauman, who charges $550 per month rent on his 45-year-old three-bedroom house in the 10300 block of Liberty Mills Road, argues the house should be assessed at no more than $100,000, in part because his longtime tenant maintains the 1.5-acre property, has provided appliances and pays for utilities and some other expenses. If he had to pay for everything his tenant does, Bauman said, he would have to increase the rent."
But Leininger knows the deal, because I've written too many articles educating him Is Aboite residents in agreement with the Township? if they are not complaining I would think so. Was Leininger's article an objective piece written to get answers for the complainer since Leininger lives in Aboite?
NOT
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