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by DoubleCribble 3206 days ago
This is an example of a pre-1975 windfall at it's finest and the decades of legacy effects of Prop 13 [0]. Why would you ever want to sell your house if it costs almost nothing to keep empty/second home and you bought it before 1975?

If the Zillow data is correct, it looks like it's being taxed at a value of only $110k, ~60% of the original purchase price in 2017 dollars (from comment below). [1]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197... [1]https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/fsba,fsbo_lt/19540393_...