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Dorrington Realty has a list of services and he is on the list under Handyman.
*http://www.murphysrealestatebylinda.com/Local%20Partners.htm
Remove the *Does Frank Stone cut trees down or just work with stuff on the ground? Anyone have a contact number?
I have a tree I need taken down and already have too much firewood. The person I contacted about taking it down didn’t want to deal with the wood.
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It’s not unusual for a tax agency to charge a “convenience fee” for the use of credit cards or even e-checks. Sometimes it’s a flat fee, other times % of the payment. One thought, if you want to make the payment via credit card because of the miles/rebates, consider purchasing a cashier’s check with your cc for the property tax payment. There will still be a fee but your bank benefits may offer free cashier checks. win-win.
Of course there are costs with handling credit payments.
But I wonder what the county pays to the handler. If there is no cost to the county and the handling company is paid ONLY by transaction fees that is a good deal. But if the county pays for the service in addition to the fees charged taxpayers for each credit card transaction that is not such a great deal for anyone other than the processor. The county could simply not accept credit card payments and save themselves some money?I would love to have some of the pine, but I can’t get up there until next week, Thursday or Friday. By then it’ll probably all be spoken for. If not, please let me know.
ScottI was going to rent a splitter last summer, but realized for about fifty bucks more than a one-day rental fee, I could hire a couple of guys who brought a splitter- the two of them split and stacked way more wood than I ever could. I used Frank Stone.
I think you are referring to the ‘Do Wooders’ who operate out of The Chapel in the Pines
2286 Cedar Ln, Arnold, CA 95223
(209) 795-1064PG&E felled an 80 ft pine tree on our property. The trunk is cut in 4′ sections but would have to be further cut into 16″ pieces and split. This wood is free for the taking! Let me know if you are interested and I will let you know our location.
I did hear that there was some group that would take wood like this and provide it to underprivileged folks. If anyone knows about this please let me know.
Any time a credit card is used, it is settled through a banking process which includes the bank issuing the credit card and the the bank of the recipient. In addition, there is a payment network such as Visa or Mastercard and may be a card processing service in the middle. Each party takes their cut. Even if they were to use Square or PayPal to process credit card transaction, there is a fee. Generally around 2.5% of the transaction amount Merchants look at these fees as a cost of doing business and accept the net payment as a tradeoff for convenience. Govt. agency fees are mandated so they do not care about catering to the customer to encourage “sales” (theire sales are mandated!) add a service fee to cover them. On a $2000 property tax bill the county is not willing to eat a $50 cc processing charge.
The county uses a third party to process credit card payments and they charge the fee. I imagine the county also pays them for their service? Why does the county need a third party to accept payments? They have less people than in the past to process payments? Or the same number of people doing less work?
Who knows, I am sure they will have a great reason why they need the third party for getting tax payments.We had a similar problem with the address. the problem was that one Comcast has the address in Arnold. PGE has the address in Camp Connell. Att had us listed in Dorrington! So when you give your address they might not have it listed in the city you tell them.
Have you tried to charge your property tax payment?
Careful, there is a $19.00 “service charge”Just paid the auto license fee and there is no “service charge”, the way it should be.
How much more can the county squeeze out of us? Maybe I should ask Merita.
I’m still undecided about whether or not to keep the landline- though I understand the value and security of having contact if the power goes out. Our place is right off Sierra Parkway hear Hwy4, so we’re one of the first places to get plowed. We’re doing the devo program at Bear this year, so we’ll go up every other weekend at least, so with luck from the weather gods, there will be ample opportunity to get caught in a blizzard. I think that we’ll keep it through the winter and then pull the plug or not when the snow melts.
Right now, Comcast has to do a “service check” because our address isn’t showing up in their dbase. I’m sure it is available- about $40/month if we add it. They’re supposed to call back in a few days.
