Freddie's Blog

Well people it looks like there a lack of love for us in Lawrence Township! Came across an article talking about Lawrence Township's Sign Ordinance and thought I would share parts of it here. It is not online, sorry :-( "According to the Lawrence Township Land Use Sign Ordinance, no signs other t...

I had a former client ask me recently a question about mortgage payments. Went hunting for an answer to his specific question and found this along the way. Cleaned it up a bit, played around with it and decided to share it here. Hope you have a bit of fun and have an explanation if ever asked abo...

Perhaps we should autopsy property tax reform to determine what killed it. By real reform I mean more than the stop-gap measure that is in the works. Yes, the special interest groups played a part in the downfall of this last attempt to curve the runaway costs of living in NJ. It was naïve to thi...

Well it is on again... for now. The town council and the mayor stopped squabbling long enough to agree to ask for public input into the proposed transit village (like their neighbors in West Windsor did. The name of the game was to serve the people. The proposed transit village at the Hamilton St...

Looks like the folks in Ewing Township had a bit of a blunder with a land deal. Seems the tax collector sold a tax lien on property the township did not own. The township's tax collector sold the lien on property out by the Trenton/Mercer Airport. The lien was purchased by Capital Asset Research ...

Okay when I read this article I thought, no good deed goes unpunished. Do something environmentally conscious and what do you get: knocked in the wallet. It seems if you spend the money to have solar panels installed to provide energy for your home, then township assessors come along and counts t...

Well, it is beginning. Governor Corzine has not even signed the 20 percent tax benefit for homeowners and already a municipality has proposed to raise its property taxes 7.5 percent to $.29 cents per $100 assessed property value. That works out so that a home assessed at $574,800 would pay an ext...

Love Tim Carter of Ask The Builder. Thought his response to Lois was just right. Finding hardware that matches the rest of the style of the kitchen is important. That reminded me of a formerly client. It started out as just a CMA appointment. The home was a beauty until the kitchen. Every cabinet...

Okay we all know the legislature was called into special session last year to come up with a plan to reform New Jersey's property taxes. Well so far only two bills have been signed into law and two are on the Governor's desk. What's PassedMainly some general house cleaning measures although the f...

Happy Days are here again.... temporarily anyway... Well, they took two months longer than they said they would and there seems to be some doubt whether the bill will be sustainable or not but a tax reform bill (S20/A1) is on its way to Governor Corzine's desk. There was a bit of drama with this ...