yeah, like it was 1953 or something. The city does in fact accept credit card payments for reservations, but the guy in charge of taking reservations doesn't know how to process credit cards, or use the internet for that matter. So we had to go to the dimly lit building underneath the Liberty Bridge with a money order (WTF? what the hell is the convenience of a money order in 2011).
On only a slightly related topic, my application to buy distressed property from the city (with cash) was denied. The reason on the denial was "unpaid property tax" (no other details). Since I've never owned property, I don't know what the fuck they are talking about. Sean, you were so right when you said that the system is designed to have you banging your head against the wall until you just give up and go away.
Is their pending tax leins against the property you were trying to purchase?
I'm sure there are...but the whole point (I thought, silly me) was to sell these properties and add them back to the tax roll. It is the city's legal team that should be clearing these liens for a prospective taxpayer like myself. I am convinced that instead of taking $5k, $10K, $25K, or whatever from me that goes to the city, the municipal workers are steering these properties to deep-pocketed investor friends of theirs, or allowing them to deteriorate to the point of condemnation, when Cousin Yinzer Jagz and his demo crew can get the $10K contract to plow over the house.
That or maybe in a previous life I owed property tax to the city and they are only now catching up to me.
