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Land is worth money because of improvements or detrimental choices. Manhattan and Staten Island have dramatically different valuations because of what’s there.

California needs a sane taxation system that doesn’t allow squatters to pay nothing for property taxes, but harshly punishes new homeowners.



> Land is worth money because of improvements or detrimental choices

It's worth money because of what's around the land. Otherwise identical houses in different locations would sell for the same price.


Only in LVT fantasy land.

Improvements represent applications of labor and capital that produce value.


"Location, location, location" is "LVT fantasy land"? That's practically the first rule of real estate.

Is a 1 acre empty lot in Palo Alto worth the same as a 1 acre empty lot in Mobile, Alabama? No improvements on either one so they should go for the same price, right?


Why isn’t it?

That land wasn’t valuable when it was orange groves. The improvements make the place.




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