Somehow I seem to have lost my rant topic. Well, whatever - if I care enough I’ll do something about it. Just like how I’m blocking all smtp traffic from Korea now.

Anyways - most recent house loan statement said that they’re raising our monthly payment by several hundred dollars.

Um, no.

Of course, there’s all this fine print and you have to squint and pull out your secret decoder ring to figure out what’s going on - but then we figure it out. Personal property tax is calculated every six months. Instead of putting in the fact that our tax is going from $x a month to $y a month, they put in our new tax is $x+$y a month.

Nope, that’s wrong.

Next step, I call up the stupid loan company and play voicemail option bingo for a while until I finally get a person. Hint - all good voicemail systems should shove you to an operator if you keep hitting zero. This was not a good voicemail system.

After several calls and a quick lesson in Spanish voicemail, I get a live body on the line and we discuss stuff for a while - she goes and gets some other people, we read some forms, etc. Finally she says - “Well, this is what the tax authority sent us. If you want it fixed, you have to call them.”

I now have the number for the Loudoun Cty tax authority to call tomorrow. I just wonder if I’m the only one, or if a bunch of people are getting double taxed right now.