[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by Shellshack

Mr and Mrs Jones. I this house costs $200,000 to construct plus $20,000 in development (impact) fees. I can charge you $200,000 and you pay the fees, or I can charge you $220,000 and I pay the fees.
Either way you will live in a wonderful community which is clean, relatively crime free, has one third of the property taxes you had in Illinois, none of the income taxes. We bought in and are glad we did. I cannot understand people who choose to complain after they voluntarily moved in knowing exactly what they were getting.
Finally, I was of the understanding that these threads were to be free of politics. Can we now start using these as a political forum??Endorsing or opposing specific candidates or parties seem rather political to me???

Mr. and Mrs. Me bought our house in 2018. As far as I know, the $20,000 was included in the price we paid. In 2019 our property tax (along with tens of thousands of our neighbors) was increased by 25%, in part to pay for the new roads South of 44 rather than increasing the impact fees on that new construction. All of us pay more in taxes so that Mr. and Mrs. Jones don't have to pay as much in fees. The issue is much more complex than that but that is the basic complaint.