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Dozens of Useful Web Sites for Seniors
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Seniors are the fastest-growing segment of Internet users (the Baby Boomers turned 60 this year!), and the Web offers them more all the time. Here are more than two dozen of the best Web sites for seniors - both fun and useful.
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Read classic literature, play, poetry, novel at bartleby
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Senior Issues
Health
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The Yahoo Senior Directory - click on directory then enter seniors
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California Proposition 60 & Proposition 90
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Question:
I am a senior citizen and have been thinking about selling my home and moving into a smaller home or townhouse. I am concerned about paying the higher property tax rate. I have heard there is a law that would allow me to keep my present tax rate. Is this true and if so I would like more information on this.
Answer: You are correct. I will send you the full information, but because there are other seniors in the Los Angeles area that may have the same question, I will print the short version here. You want to look into Proposition 90, enacted by voters of California in 1988. Caution all counties did not adopt this propostion! Proposition 90 allows eligible senior citizens relief from reassesment when purhasing a replacement home of equal of lesser value in a county which has adopted the provisions of the law. Those participating counties will accept transfers of your Proposition 13 property tax base assessments from other California counties also.
TABLE I
Counties which have adopted a Proposition 90 ordinance:
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Alameda
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San Mateo
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San Diego
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Orange
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Ventura
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Los Angeles
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Santa Clara
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TABLE II
Counties which have rejected implementing Proposition 90:
[Counties with an asterisk * previously had a Proposition 90 ordinance then repealed it. All other counties listed in Table II never had a Proposition 90 ordinance.]
Butte | Merced | San Bernardino | Calaveras | Modoc* | Santa Barbara | Contra Costa* | Mono | Santa Cruz | El Dorado | Monterey* | Shasta | Fresno | Napa | Siskiyou | Inyo* | Nevada | Solano | Kern* | Placer | Sonoma | Lake | Riverside* | Stanislaus | Madera | Sacramento | Trinity | Marin* | San Benito | Tulare | Mendocino | San Luis Obispo | Yolo |
Important: Because of certain requirements, potential buyers should check with the tax assessor's office or other county authorities before proceeding! Request information on both Proposition 90 and Proposition 60. For Los Angeles County go to http://www.lacountyassessor.com/extranet/list/forms.aspx
For more information from the California Association of Realtors regarding Prop 60 and 90 please visit the"Prop 90 Watch".
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