Tip of the Day: Cabinet Hardware

Love Tim Carter of Ask The Builder. Thought his response to Lois was just right. Finding hardware that matches the rest of the style of the kitchen is important. I had a CMA appointment were every cabinet had a different knob on every cabinet door in the kitchen. The wife had just removed the original hardware over time and replaced it with whatever struck her fancy at the time. No two cabinet doors or drawers had the same pull. It was amazing. I explained that buyers might not necessarily have her artistic eye and that we needed to make things easy for buyer to imagine living in the space. She was willing to make the changes and kitchen cabinetry became an asset rather than a liability.
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Tax Plan Passes Senate

Well, they took two months longer than they said they would and there seems to be some doubt whether the bill will be sustainable or not but the tax bill (S20/A1) is on its way to Governor Corzine’s desk.
There was a bit of drama with this vote because Senate leader Richard Codey (D) held the voting board open for two hours. He had four members of his party who either voted no or abstained from the vote altogether. Senator Codey brought the Senators back yesterday in effort to pass the bill and vowed to keep bringing them back until the bill passed. With some behind the scene lobbying of Republicans for votes by Gov. Corzine and Codey, the bill finally passed (28/10) and is now on it way to Governor Corzine’s desk where he is expected to sign it.
That the bill is bipartisan even though Senate Minority Leader Leonard Lance (R) was against the bill means there is hope for property tax reform. Granted this bill may not be sustainable, granted it is not the sweeping change really needed to bring property taxes down in the future or adequately fund schools districts, but it is a start. The legislature is taking a long time to learn to walk but at least it is mobile at last.
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Property Tax Relief Legislation in Senate Review

The tax relief bill is one step closer to reality. It comes before the State Senate (S20) today. The relief effort will only be as successful as the local governments will allow it to be. The credit program allows homeowners whose earnings fall between $100,000 and $250,000 to receive a credit on their property tax bill. While the cap placed on the amount local government may increase taxes in a given year, and the Senate allotting $2.05 billion to the program at least the first year of the program may work out well for homeowners. Since the four percent cap on increases in local levies has exceptions, how long the amount allotted to the program will last is anybody’s guess. Ideally, the amount homeowners receive should remain at 20 percent no matter what local governments do -- whether that is indeed the case remains to be seen. Still it is a beginning.
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