My question has to do with what fees are appropriate to assess to the borrower in this situation.

Get a college text book, business finance 101, basic stuff, easy reading too, written for high school kids.Hate to say go look it up, but you won't really get it out of forums.Most finance ratios won't be applicable with 100% financing as there is nothing to measure or assess other than asset/debt.

Ferndale's millage rate is pretty high, and their assessments aren't that low either.

They probably bid based on assessed value and didn't see the house.

The first thing I would do is assess the land versus building value and find out which is more valuable.Also look into restrictions for this area; some historic districts require period-era updates, which means you have to keep the original look/style etc.

What if the condo association hit her with a major assessment, or she needed an expensive medical procedure not fully covered by insurance?

The property is assessed at around $200,000.The bank is telling me that they can only cash me out for 75% of the purchase price, not the actual assessed price.

Initial assessment on that: it doesn’t seem to be the current tenants but the overgrown landscaping and poor lighting that welcomes the trouble element.

So in your example, how did you get the timeshares assessed so high when the market value apparently was $10 a piece?

Total assessment for 2012 is 267k.