Bonnie and I moved to Haines in 1983 with two small kids in tow.
We bought a house for $45,000 that was nothing more than a big shack. It had single-pane windows and some walls had no insulation, but we made improvements as money and materials became available. We didn’t begrudge our elderly their tax break.
At that time the senior exemption was for the first $150,000. There were very few, if any, houses in…
