How are property taxes collected in the Bay Area?
Mummified Body Found in Bay Area Home | NBC Bay Area
Investigators are looking into the financial history of a woman whose decomposed body was found inside a Piedmont home Tuesday evening, a police captain said.
Watch VideoPolice are interviewing a “person of interest” after an elderly woman’s decomposed body was found inside a Piedmont home Tuesday evening,
Officers found the woman’s body in the entryway of a home in the 200 block of Highland Avenue after a family member who lives nearby requested a welfare check around 5:15 p.m., Piedmont police Capt. John Hunt said.
Hunt said property records list the homeowner as 86-year-old Patricia Bostrom, but that the Alameda County coroner’s bureau is still working to confirm the deceased woman’s identity through dental records.
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The woman’s property taxes had not been paid since December 2003, Hunt said.
Wait a sec… these taxes haven’t been collected since December 2003, and no one investigated?
Just how are property taxes collected here in the Bay Area?
An anonymous Burbed reader wants to know!
March 4th, 2009 at 8:24 am
A FAMILY MEMBER LIVES NEARBY AND SHE’S MUMMIFIED BEFORE HE/SHE CALLS IN A WELFARE CHECK????
March 4th, 2009 at 9:34 am
This is very strange? Family members live near and no property taxes paid for 5 years??? Why wouldn’t the family perform the check themselves??? Those lazy cops, gotta make sure they are earning their $100K plus salaries huh?
March 4th, 2009 at 9:52 am
It makes a little more (twisted) sense after you read the article. It looks like her daughter may have been cashing her social security checks for the last few years or something.
March 4th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
That’s our secret, no one pays property taxes in the BA. Instead, all the renting masses pay doubled vehicle registration fees, higher sales taxes, and higher gas taxes.
Paying property tax is sooooooo flyover country!
March 5th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Piedmont? That isn’t RBA. No wonder they have dead bodies and tax evaders. Hey wait a minute. Isn’t A Lewis the one with the Piedmont jones?
March 5th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Come on now Madhaus, Piedmont is the blue collar town north of San Jose a la Willow Glenner.
San Jose? Piedmont? I think we all know San Jose is far more “desirable.”
March 5th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
I can’t believe I did not make this connection until now. You know, old ladies are always popping off and not being found for months because their precious darlings are far too busy working hard to afford RBA real estate. Even a celebrity can be embarrassed by police finding her mom’s corpse had been rotting for weeks. It’s double-bad when it’s a morals/ethics nut who berates her callers about Honoring Your Father And Mother.
Not surprised this happened in a blue-collar dump like Piedmont, though. I am sure this would never occur in a prestige area like San Jose, or at least not in the better zip codes.