{"id":26726,"date":"2011-06-14T21:32:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T21:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/todays_entry_from_the_isnt_it_fun_to_live_in_america_box\/"},"modified":"2011-06-14T21:32:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T21:32:14","slug":"todays_entry_from_the_isnt_it_fun_to_live_in_america_box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26726","title":{"rendered":"Today&#39;s entry from the Isn&#39;t it Fun to Live in America Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home values in Snohomish County continued a prolonged slide this year, according to assessment notices that should arrive soon.<\/p>\n<p>Assessment notices being mailed this week show a dip of nearly 13 percent in value for residential properties. That&#8217;s the largest falloff since 2008, when housing declines began to show up in county assessments&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><i>You might think then that the taxes on real estate would therefore be less.  You would be wrong&#8211;they could be, but they may not be. Why?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Because of Washington&#8217;s budget-based taxing system, taxes can go up even when property values decline.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/43390193\/ns\/local_news-everett_wa\/t\/assessed-value-homes-drops-nearly-percent-county\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home values in Snohomish County continued a prolonged slide this year, according to assessment notices that should arrive soon. Assessment notices being mailed this week show a dip of nearly 13 percent in value for residential properties. That&#8217;s the largest<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26726\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,615,149,600,151,587],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-city-government","category-economy","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-politics-in-general","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}