Comments on: Boise Public Land Deals Have Dubious History

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 11 May 2015 22:10:55 +0000

@ Easterner

Agree tax vales are often low, I have seen development occur where the appraised value was 25-50% higher than tax value, but have never seen nor heard of double. I would not be surprised to see this property appraise at $5M.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Sun, 10 May 2015 04:42:53 +0000

But Dave, The CWI brain trust must have glorious river view offices to complement their superiority complexes. With money to burn, what’s the problem here??

By: Easterner

Easterner — Sat, 09 May 2015 19:20:33 +0000

A good summary and conclusion of the situation. Unless of course a certified appraisal comes in at 9 million. 😉

Everyone is accusing CWI of being bad, and no one is asking if the county assessment was low, or more importantly comparing the methodology of the assessment vs the FMV.
Kinda like farm land being valued based on “10 cows were sold last year”. Buy it, build 100 houses and all of a sudden that dirt is way more valuable.

I say there are LOTS of parcels way undervalued for tax purposes and thereby LOTS of people are getting the benefit on their county taxes.

By: Easterner

Easterner — Sat, 09 May 2015 19:19:40 +0000

Edit for you Guardian, it is 2901 W. Main the city owns and the adjacent parcels of 2800 W Fairview, & 2811 Main.
And here is an example of the problem I have mentioned previously- what is the assessed value for those two parcel? We don’t know, because the Assessor doesn’t bother with listing the values as a matter of public record. Dear Assessor, ….

By: J Smith

J Smith — Fri, 08 May 2015 22:16:30 +0000

How is Davy Bieter ever going to build a trophy downtown for the rich folks, paid for by the poor folks, if you keep shining a light on his shady good-old-boy deals? If the puppet masters of Bieter Boy and the Back-Slapper City Council had their way, they’d fire up all the bulldozers, and unleash the skyscraper assembly machine to efficiently turn Boise into a clone of Los Angeles. Local corruption in Boise is as bad on a mini-me scale as corruption is at the national level, and the made for TV Public relations methods are just as sanitized and slick. The time has definitely arrived for patriots to protect our country from its government, as you are so capably doing David Frazier. Thank you!