Fumo Still Asking $6M For Fairmount Place

When Vince Fumo put his mansion in Fairmount on the market for $7 million — he’s since lowered the price to $6m — people wondered how he could only be paying $6,611 a year in property taxes. Or they wondered about it after patriotic American baseball player Brett Mandel complained about it. (And maybe Metro, too? I don’t remember.)

Anyway, somebody was told to look for Vince Fumo’s tax bill and, of course, the city apparently lost it. And, of course, all the renovations he did to his house were done in secret; he got a court order in 1995 to make the renovations to his mansion secret, the only such order ever given out. He got it because he supports abortion rights and was worried for his safety.

But not all is well in Fumo world. Let’s all laugh a little that Vince Fumo thought investing tons of money to build a mansion in Fairmount would work out:

In the interview, Fumo also complained that he had sunk too much money into the property, more than the neighborhood justified.

Ha ha, sucks to be you. If only you were smart and had bought in Wash West.

City tax board says it lost Fumo file [Inquirer]

Mayor Can’t Keep Track of All His Wheelings & Dealings

Hey, so remember when John Street tried to get in property tax delinquents? And then he accidentally — whoops! — was delinquent on property taxes himself? Well, how’d that happen?

Good luck getting an answer from the mayor, he has no idea!

At issue are tax bills for two of Mayor Street’s properties that had not been paid since 2003. Street paid the nearly $5,000 bill only after being told of the matter by a reporter last week. In his first public comments on this, Street said there’s confusion over the bills, and said he won’t try to straighten it out in the media:

“That’s personal, and I’m not going to get into how I pay my bills. Legitimate taxes weren’t paid on time, and when I found out, I paid them. And I think that’s good enough.”

Street also overpaid on some other bills, but he’s a millionaire so it doesn’t really matter. Ha ha, John Street is a millionaire! What are you going to tell me next, state legislators make six figures? Oh, shit.

Mayor Mum About Why He Failed To Pay Property Taxes [KYW 1060]