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Re:Elon Musk moves to Texas by omgwtfbyobbq on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @05:09PM (#25365952)
Mello Roos doesn't make the developer pay, they make the people in the special district pay. The developer gets to sell the units without any concern for what more people will do to local infrastructure.

I guess they could be $15k/year, but I've never seen an example that high. My mom lives in Yucca Valley and has two or three Mello Roos items (water district, local community college, and something else), and I think maybe pays about $600 total for them.

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Re:Elon Musk moves to Texas by adrr on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:08PM (#25366685)
That’s cheap. This is Playa del Rey area in LA which has Google,FB, and other regional offices. Plus 1.2% property tax.

https://playavistaexperts.com/buying-selling-resources/mello...

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Re:Elon Musk moves to Texas by omgwtfbyobbq on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:54PM (#25367333)
That's a good point, and I should probably be thinking about Mello Roos in terms of percent of property value or something.

It's a ton off money either way, although I guess not surprising in Playa del Rey.

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