It is difficult to gauge what a lawmaker is worth because disclosure forms do not
require exact values.
Not exact matches
I WOULD like to see a form that eliminates the CATEGORIES (A, B, C, D, E) and
requires EXACT amounts to be entered for the
values of assets, liablities, income etc..
Lawmakers are
required to identify any stocks they own, but are permitted to say how much each stock is worth within a range, without providing an
exact dollar
value.
This is
required as they can not lend without knowing the
exact value of a property.
Again, assuming home
value didn't change and that you got an FHA loan
requiring only 3.5 % down, your down payment ($ 7k) plus principal paid (about another $ 7k; 6936.27 to be
exact) only covers $ 14k of those costs.
It's not perfect, and it's still a work in process, but anchoring estimates of intrinsic
value on the earnings power of company assets (relative to a
required rate of return, which I set at an
exacting 10 %) helps avoid
value traps.
There are two types of blocking:
exact blocking
requires records to have the same set of valid fields and the same
values for these fields; automated blocking builds a set of conditions to find as many records as possible that potentially match each other.
To calculate the
exact amount of property tax you will owe
requires your property's assessed
value and the property tax rates based on your property's address.