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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

data base that would show degradation of property values for properties

This past week, I received a special request from Tim. Please help him out by reading his request below and responding if you have information to share! His email is noted below and it would be so helpful if you could share your experience. Thanks, Tim, for working on this project!!!!

I want to put together a data base that would show degradation of property values for properties sold near mine sites.  This is a big undertaking and I need the help of all the people in your readership to collect information.

If anyone knows of a sale of a property within 1-2 miles of an existing sand mine, please relay that information to me. I will need:
--name of buyer or seller, or both;
--sale date, even approximately;
--municipality where the property is located (township, village, county, etc.);
--name of the nearby mine.

I will try to track down previous assessed values and sale prices through the appropriate county records.  This could take some time, but I think that having a large body of evidence from right here in Wisconsin, and recently, would carry far more weight in the court of public opinion than all existing research, which are dated or come from remote parts of the U.S.  If this “proximity to sand mine=degraded property value” thesis is wrong, then we need to know that, too, and to stop advancing a specious argument. Please post or summarize this message as you deem appropriate.

Thanks in advance,

Tim Zeglin


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