3 ms·
I remember seeing nearly finished building in Croatia, lacking only the exterior finish, but (apparently) with people living Inside. I first though it was a cos
by baud147258 8y ago
I remember seeing nearly finished building in Croatia, lacking only the exterior finish, but (apparently) with people living Inside. I first though it was a cost-cutting measure, saving on seemingly unecessary work, but I've also heard it was to avoid taxes on buildings.
- miluge 8y agoWhen I first moved to Romania I saw the same and always wondered why. Now I built a small home and left it like this so I don't pay taxes (wanted to build, leave there a year of two and sell). You also don't pay as much taxes when sold not finished.
- village-idiot 8y agoHaiti had/has the same rule: property taxes only applied to finished structures, so many of the rural dwellings were left unfinished. When my wife volunteered there right before the earthquake she said that many structures had exposed rebar sticking out of the concrete. She thinks that increases the fatalities significantly.
- smcl 8y agoThat was my exact memory of Croatia - I remember so many nearly finished buildings with "rebar" sticking out of the top of walls or unfinished exteriors - and they looked like they'd been that way for a while.
- baud147258 8y agoPersonnaly I did not see that many of them and they were all inland, not on the coast, where the housing market might be different. Also the remnants of the war had a much bigger impact on my memories of the country: we saw a few buildings still covered with bullet holes and areas cut off because of mines. That nearly two decades after the war such things were still visible was an interesting experience.
- baud147258 8y ago> an interesting experience. Wrong choice of words here, I was trying to say "bigger impact"