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<div>Donovan,</div><div><br></div><div>Just be glad your property has not depreciated in value. Sell it and be glad you made a profit. Take the money and run to the bank or, better yet, reinvest it. That's how capitalism works.</div><div><br></div><div>Ralph</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Feb 10, 2009, at 9:12 PM, Donovan Arnold wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I don't know Ralph.<br><br>My family has a cabin on Lake CDA. Many of the people in those cabins have had them for decades and generations as vacation places because they couldn't afford to go anywhere else. They aren't rich, they just had the homes because they were cheap when they bought them or built them. Now, those simple cabin homes go for $100,000s and even millions because of people in big cities want getaways. To tax Spokane and Washington residents and local Idahoians huge amounts forcing them to forfeit a piece of their family history seems wrong. <br><br>If you put a grandfather clause in there, I might see an exception. It is hard to save your cabin that your family built for $5,000 in 1948 because a Californian is willing to buy it for $700,000 and you get taxed on it more than you make. <br><br>Best Regards,<br><br>Donovan <br><br></td></tr></tbody></table><br></blockquote></div></body></html>