The ranch was valued for tax purposes at $21.1 million for tax year 2023, but San Rafael Ranch LLC protested, arguing in part that the “notoriety” of the property and the sales price justified a lower valuation, and thus, lower taxes, according to The New Mexican. The Santa Fe County assessor later valued the property at $13.4 million for tax year 2023. The following year, it was renamed from 49 Zorro Ranch Road to 49 Rancho San Rafael Road.
That’s an impressive strategy. “You should lower my taxes. I’m just a truly awful person doing nightmarish things at my property. It might as well be native burial ground with all the cursed things I’ve done and buried across my property. We all know what the previous owner did, we know what I’m planning to do, so let’s just get ahead of this thing and all admit that the haunted tales of my actions would make Clive Barker cry, and gimme that sweet sweet tax break as a consolation prize for being worse than any monster described in any media ever.”
That’s an impressive strategy. “You should lower my taxes. I’m just a truly awful person doing nightmarish things at my property. It might as well be native burial ground with all the cursed things I’ve done and buried across my property. We all know what the previous owner did, we know what I’m planning to do, so let’s just get ahead of this thing and all admit that the haunted tales of my actions would make Clive Barker cry, and gimme that sweet sweet tax break as a consolation prize for being worse than any monster described in any media ever.”