Like Bob i find it incredible what you have had to go through to build a home. Guess you don't have the deep pockets to bribe the state county and town officials like developers must do. They seem to manage to get things done in record times here. Oh but i forgot you only offering up one tax paying house, they tend to be delivering thousands of new tax payers. Lol.
Next i shudder to think what they going to extort from you for the privilege of building your home in the form of development fees.
Around here that number is so obscene, it makes living in a cardboard box highly attractive.
I recall when i first came to learn about what Singaporeans pay for their certificate of entitlement COE a instrument sold at auction, that allows you to then go out car shopping and permits purchase of a car that then carries a further obscene number for import duties.
It gets topped out with a cherry that is , you only get to keep the car on the road for 10 years. I guess at least a house is a better proposition.