The five-acre catch in Idaho's timber exemption.
There's a property tax program a lot of Idaho landowners never hear about, and the acreage rule inside it is one of the reasons every homesite at Clagstone is sized the way it is.
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There's a property tax program a lot of Idaho landowners never hear about, and the acreage rule inside it is one of the reasons every homesite at Clagstone is sized the way it is.
The shoreline is mostly private. If you're moving for "Hayden Lake out the back door," it's worth knowing exactly what that means before you tour.
The pitch you usually hear about moving from Washington to North Idaho is "lower taxes, lower cost of living, better lifestyle." Two of those are true. One of them is, for a working-age Spokane Valley household, mostly false.
A six-acre buyer asked me about an apple orchard last summer. Two years ago that was a routine question. Last year it became a complicated one, because the law changed.
The difference between a five-acre lot and a six-acre lot doesn't sound like much on paper. It's the difference between a neighborhood and a homestead in person.