Nope. None. Nada. Nunca.

No income tax. You get what you pay for.

Some parts of Texas don’t require any building permits either

TN has no income tax but we have zoning in all major cities.

As far as "you get what you pay for", you get what your local govt decides you should get with the money you paid.

Come see our property tax rates! TANSTAAFL!

No. This was inside the city limits of Houston. All sorts of permits are required.

When I was going to the University of Houston, I had a part time job at a tool & die machine shop on Stephanie Lane, the next street over. It is no longer there but would have been a few thousand feet away. There was hardly any residential areas close by at that time. It has all encroached since then.

+1

Higher up co-workers living in the Memorial area with nice, but not opulent, 4k sq foot cribs were paying $12k twenty years ago.

We trade income taxes for sales and property taxes.

feds are sending a Chem Haz team out


I'm glad this didn't happen in a chemical plant...

What you described is likely ~$40k/yr now in property taxes.

Memorial is one of the $$$ areas of Houston, so your home value is higher than it would be in other locations.

The current tax rate for most of Houston is 2.421583%

I can't argue. I did say the guy was a more senior co-worker so perhaps he could have swung a half million dollar house back then to tie in with the $12K number I remember him saying.

I lived up 1960 from 10 by Champion Forest. Huntwick was the neighborhood. I paid $4k on a purchase price of $165k which sounds in the ballpark.

One has nothing to do with the other, but you go girl.

Some car content to this tragedy:

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/01/25/1M-worth-of-Corvettes-trapped-after-deadly-Houston-warehouse-explosion/7851579977070/

Show me a great city that was built without tax funded regulation- sister

You think income taxes and zoning are related somehow?

I cycled past this area yesterday and it looks like a war zone, there were cranes being brought in with police escorts to remove the building debris.

State Farm disaster relief is on site for the residents and lots and lots of houses with plywood screwed into shattered window frames and also for the garage doors. The curbs look like Harvey with home debris. Very sad for these families.

So, that would be a no you can't? Girlfriend

Fairly certain that about 100% of the municipalities in this country collect some sort of tax revenue, so the answer to your question that is unrelated to the statement you are incapable of supporting is no.

Apparently the discussion is a bit over your head, and you have to want to learn to be taught. I am sorry I can't help you