Dear Ms. Betty…I could send you the letters if you wish. I’m a renter, and every time my rent goes up, reason #1 is usually property tax increase. If you were the landlord, I’m sure you wouldn’t just expect it to come out of your savings…oh, wait…that comes from rent you would charge, too…if you were a landlord .
Winery Tasting Room Manager
Welcome Road Winery is seeking an energetic, friendly and dependable person to manage the West Seattle tasting room on a part time basis (28 to 50 hours per month / 2 to 3 weekends per month). Our new tasting room is scheduled to open in early November 2016 at California Ave & Charlestown.
You have excellent people skills, a knowledge of wine and a desire to play a key role in establishing our new tasting room in the West Seattle neighborhood. You are also honest to a fault, can lift 45 lbs. and are available to work weekends.
Experience working in a previous tasting room is strongly preferred. Experience distributing wine to retail and restaurants is a BIG plus.
Primary Responsibilities:
1. Opening & closing the tasting room (we anticipate being open Thursday – Sunday)
2. Greeting guests, pouring wine, facilitating and processing sales, acquiring wine club signups
3. Managing the wine club (sending emails, preparing shipments, organizing parties, etc.)
4. Assisting with private events
5. There is an opportunity to also handle social media for the winery – experience and desire dependent
Requirements:
1. At least 2 years of hospitality experience; tasting room experience is strongly preferred
2. Wine distribution experience is a big plus
3. High school diploma, college degree preferred
4. West Seattle resident is a plus
5. Awesome references
6. Food handlers permit; Class 12 pouring permit (we can assist if you need either of these)
Competitive hourly wages DOE, plus wine-related benefits.
Please email resume to leigh@welcomeroadwinery.com
JKB
you have ridden this dead horse into the ground.
what do you want me to say? that in a moment of frustration and snark i posted that line as a reflection of your remarks.. because that is what it boils down to .. the great “how dare they” “uppity ___________”.
Yup.. in a moment of snark i mocked what you said. And in this moment of clarity i pretty much stand by it.
Do i need to tell you how tiring that argument is? Or that it is any more palatable clothed in what you think is politically correct language?
They dare because they are directly affected by what is happening.. and if you can’t get that .. that’s really your problem.. not mine.
I have my priorities straight.
I am far more offended by the behavior that triggered the protests than by the protests..
and quite frankly.. i can’t see why you’re not.
If that makes me some kind of big meanie.. so be it. i am a big meanie.
i don’t know how i can be more clear.
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This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by JoB.
Looking for a reliable babysitter available for occasional evening help as late at 11pm. Easy job since kids are 12 and 10. Conveniently located in the Belvedere neighborhood (near Bridge). Immediate need is for October 11.
Please send inquiries and referrals to lynleybarbano@gmail.com.
Puget Sound Puppers LLC has an opening for a motivated candidate to join our team of compassionate and dedicated Professional Dog Walkers in West Seattle. Hours will average 12-20 hours per week, depending on our scheduling needs. Candidates must be available for 4 to 6 hours between 10am and 6pm, Monday through Friday. Some weekend availability is ideal (we pay time and a half for most weekend walks), but not required. Pay starts at $13-$15/hour.
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If you think you’d be a good fit, please reply to Jaime Volker (jaime.volker@gmail.com) with a cover letter, your resume, and the contact information for three professional references.
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Pier 1 left Westwood because their rent was greatly increased.Not the minimum wage issue.
JoB – I’m going to call out your use of “uppity n____” as an offensive slur that belongs back in the Jim Crow days. What were you thinking?
Or to JanS, who also used ‘uppity’ in an early post.
You people are nitpicking my writing style, while offering language that you yourself would have called hate speech.
JoB, you suggested that I was misinterpreting this, when in fact I had offered no interpretation at all, other than to note you were the one who’d said it. Care to explain?
Because any worthwhile febrile imagination would do better?
“Not personal, or not meant to be” is interesting. Forum talk is in these little blurbs, lacking tone-of-voice or other personal clues. So if what’s written is personal, but wasn’t meant as such, how does the conversation go forward?
(Assuming this post goes through). JoB – I wrote a response that the system isn’t posting. I’ll try to get it through.
Mark, you mean “renters pay property taxes”. No apostrophe, which I only mention because you were just calling out Betty for (egregious and ridiculous) syntax issues.
So a really free-market analysis makes the link between taxes and rent pretty weak. A landlord looks at the demand and figures out what rent price optimizes his revenue. The connection is that is optimal revenue doesn’t cover expenses (which include property tax), then he sells the property and leaves the game.
Yeah, if I were doing it, I’d total my expenses up, tack on 20%, and charge that as rent. So much for theory.
Betty and other ranting, foaming, slavering righties, What is it with you and your ilk and the improper use of capital letters and punctuation?
As to the renter question as it pertains to property tax; renter’s pay property taxes. It is part of the equation that is used to calculate what rent should be. Otherwise landlords would operate at a deficit all of the time.
Redblack, thank you for mentioning about how statewide tax distribution works! For the record, some years ago (5 or so, I’ve not looked it up recently) for every dollar that was collected in Ferry Co, the county with the least tax revenue, they received something on the the order of $2.80. King Co, on the other hand received less than $1 for every dollar collected. And, strangely, it’s the rural, conservative counties the complain about how the west side pulls the state in terms of politics, all the while sucking at that liberal tax teat. I wish I could get that out of my head now.
JKB, do you refer to Robert’s Rules when having informal conversations with friends? Your insistence that there be no editorializing or criticism of your rhetoric is unrealistic and your responses to such are condescending.
Before you insist that I provide you with “proof” read the last 5 pages.
By the way…I threw some spleen in there for you. It’s sort of squishy. Get it quick our it’ll smell bad.
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This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by mark47n. Reason: Needed some more cow bell
the other thing that “conservatives” love to ignore about the reality of taxation – the elephant in the room, if you will – is that the heavily-populated, dense, liberal, and diverse areas of the state send far more tax money to olympia than they receive in the form of “gold-filled gum drops.”
the inverse is true for the rural, more conservative areas of the state.
also, too, by the way, last time i checked, our fair city had a rainy day fund (budget surplus) of around $700 million.
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This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by redblack.
Liberal craziness on display once again.
No, Mrs, Brayden renters DO NOT pay property taxes. ONLY property owners pay property taxes or it would not be called a.. say it with me… ” Property Tax ! Jesus !
Only a Liberal such as Mrs. Braydon can twist reality to fit her situation and not even blink. Facts, Logic and not even titles on the taxes get in the way.
The ever lovely Mrs. Brayden just assumes that the evil capitalist land owner ( ie. The Landlord ) raises her rent to reflect the increase in their property taxes and much of the time that is true. But, what she is leaving out is that she will be the first person aboard the ” regulating the rent train ” that is now catching steam around Seattle to prevent this and her reasoning will be because of the ” Greed ‘ of the Landlords we needs this to be done.
In Liberal land reality sucks therefore they have learned the trick to just invent your own state of reality which enables them to ignore such things a Facts and Logic and certainly Math. The Democrats are suddenly the party of ” Science ” when it comes Global warming but obviously Math doesn’t have anything to do with Science..? OMG !
Yes, This altered state of consciousness that I refer to as ” Liberal land ” allows Liberals like Mrs. Brayden to tell you such hallucinogenic tales like the Government run Programs , agencies or pretty much Anything they do is a ” Good return for your dollar ” . i have to admit … after i stopped laughing and found my chair I gave gave her some props. WoW ! Even Harry Reid would laugh on that one.
Yes, it is true ( St3 ) at ( $ 1 Thousand Million Dollars ) -per- mile to move no more than 10% of traffic is a Great Deal in Liberal-ville. So will the Heroin ” Adventureland Amusement park ” downtown and please don’t forget the ( 2 ) Lane non expandable tunnel that replaced the ( 3 ) Lane Viaduct that was built before traffic even started will be a stunning return on investment. Oh.. Don’t forget the Toll that will end when my Great grand children’s Children retire.
The only problem with Mrs. Brayden and the other Liberals is that they live in Seattle and not ” Liberal Land ” and here in Seattle we don’t have money trees that bear Gumdrops filled with gold. We have real taxes that are going up by the second with no consideration of the consequences these wasteful fantasies are having on the people paying the bills.
The sad thing is that Liberals only understand what reality is all about when the sign on the way into Liberal-ville says. ” Welcome to Venzuela ” or ” Thank you for visiting Greece. Please leave your wallet at the door “.
thanks, skeeter.
i roll taxes and insurance into my mortgage payments, so i rarely look at the details. and i’m willing to own up to my own ignorance: i didn’t realize that washington had capped property taxes – which is the very thing that started driving california to its fiscal knees decades ago.
.87%. wow. good research, man.
Redblack I don’t disagree with most of your post. In 2016 the property tax rate in Seattle was only .87%. That’s less than 1%. Really low! The reason it is so low is because assessed values have increased a lot but there is a legislative cap on property tax increase. So the rate is actually *falling* because the base is capped and assessed values are rising.
Voter approved levies are not part of the cap, though. So the portion of tax from levies has increased substantially.
For 2016, the owner of a home in Seattle pays a property tax rate of .87% So a $670,000 house will have property taxes of $5,826.44 for the year. Of that amount $3,338.55 is from the standard state/local/city factor and the remaining $2,487.89 is from voter approved levies.
The OP is concerned with the voter approved levies. For a guy or gal making big bucks, $2,487.89 is chump change. For a person just barely squeaking by in a house they bought some time ago for WAY less than $670,000 that $2,487.89 might be more meaningful. In my opinion it is not an inconsequential number.
As my post earlier explained, we are a just and generous city. We are willing to pay more to support the things important to us – parks, libraries, schools, affordable housing, etc. But some cannot afford it. So they will have to live elsewhere or cut back in other areas of their spending.
To update, I still haven’t found Lily, so I tried Bishop’s Barbershop across from Jefferson Square. Very happy! I saw Mizzy & she was awesome with my color & cut, both were superior. Yes, they’re more expensive than Budget Cuts, but I’m very happy with the results.
hahahahahaha…yeah, let’s blame JoB…that works…you were perfectly happy having the only say until someone disturbed it and disagreed…oh…like in a forum..imagine that. If you just want to have your own page with no disagreement…start one of your own…and be happy there. Only let people who agree post comments :D
have a good weekend !
you didn’t post a blog…you posted a rant. This is a forum…not a personal blog page…just thought I’d throw that in here…
have a good one :)
In line with a comment on a different thread about property taxes, moving to rural locations is one way to get away from the unpleasant aspects of metropolitan living. Otherwise, staying engaged with neighborhood interest groups and delivering constant feedback to city committees and elected officials are the most effective ways of influencing quality of life issues.
Thanks, we probably wouldn’t have been able to find that out anyway, without emergency-responder involvement… but if you ever have a Q or a tip, you are also welcome to text/call our hotline, 24/7, 206-293-6302. Hope the recovery has gone/is going well.
A point of order; PCC’s building will be demolished but PCC will be rebuilt there again as a part of a new building. At least that was the last I saw, here: here.
Camp Crockett is a dog day camp, boarding, and grooming company in search of a pack leader. We have an exceptional opportunity for someone with experience working with dogs to join our team and meet the wonderful dogs that make up our great pack.
Along with having previous experience, we would require the person taking this position to possess the following skills:
-Unconditional love and understanding for each and every dog.
-Patience with difficult dogs and the ability to stay calm under pressure.
-Respect for people and animals.
-The physical ability to lift 50+ lbs.
-Receive input in a positive and constructive manner.
-Professional phone etiquette.
-Exceptional customer service.
-Self motivated.
-Knowledge of different breeds and dog behavior.
-Reliability.
-Thorough cleaning skills.
-Great references.
If you feel you possess these skills and would contribute to our pack, please drop off your resume in person at Camp Crockett. We are located at 5611 Delridge Way SW.
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oh, and by the way…
so your property taxes might approach 2% of assessed value.
what’s the interest rate on your home loan? and what value do you get for that 4% interest rate that you pay to some zaibatsu bank?
does BofA give you free foot rubs? remodeled fire stations? better school facilities? improved electric service?
or just a bunch of corporate customer service grief, while they dodge federal taxes with your money?
property taxes are collected (and apportioned) by king county, even when cities (like the people’s republic of bellevue) vote to tax themselves a little more in order to finance levies, bonds, etc.
and, by “a little more,” i mean on the order of .0975% increases over a 10-year period. far, far less than 1%, for the mathematically challenged among us.
now, having paid property taxes faithfully in king county for 12 years, i can attest (under oath, if necessary) that property taxes in king county are less than 2% of assessed property value.
do you get where i’m going here?
the only way that anyone’s property taxes have increased by any appreciable notice (like 20%, for example) is through increased valuation by king county.
so you don’t like the commensurate taxation in seattle that results from seattle’s booming economy and increasing property values? or maybe you can’t afford the mortgage you agreed to pay?
there’s great news! you can easily sell your house in pinko and diverse seattle’s white-hot sellers’ market and move someplace that’s friendlier to your hostile, selfish needs… like buckley. or spanaway. or carnation.
then you can bitch about seattle traffic and road maintenance with real, informed gusto.
got any other “facts” or “logic” you want to dazzle me with?
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This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by redblack.
Tired of dealing with more than one patient all the time? Private home care opportunity available. Part-time health care assistant required immediately for a single non-mobile patient, an elderly female with dementia who needs total care in West Seattle. Age 85, weight ~125 lbs, height 4’10, unable to communicate verbally most of the time.
Duties: Helping my father and I with dressing, feeding, transfer to commode, cleaning, light housekeeping (sweeping, vacuuming, dishes, laundry), meal preparation and companionship. Must be able to manually transfer patient from bed to commode once a day, other transfers made with hoyer lift.
Hours: 10:30am to 5:30pm, 2 to 3 days/week, occasionally more, tbd.
Compensation: depends on experience
A cheerful disposition and a good sense of humor are essential. Previous experience with dementia patients preferred. CNA, CPR and First Aid certifications major pluses. Valid WA State ID, no criminal history, and dependable transportation please. Respond with a brief description of yourself and any relevant qualifications and experience, a resume, and your phone number/email via bfly@todomundo.com. Thank you!
