Baeumont – Valdermar – 1039
- Net Worth : $94,456
- Adults : Valdemar
- Job’s : Valdemar – Law
- Business’s : None
- Estate Tax : $10,000
- School Fee’s : $2000
- Lorcan – Knight Training
- Mortgage – $60,000
- $3000 per day.
- Income –
- LotIncomeToken’s Cashed – $46,556
Valdermar isn’t doing well, at the moment he’s one his own as his wife and her Lady’s maid are currently living up in Darkfire estate.
Financially he’s struggling and struggling big time. The thing that hit Valdermar hard was the fact that when i installed the mortgage/rent system i made all of the nobles buy the buildings they where then going to rent out. This wasn’t a problem for most of the lords however Valdermar has a large estate with the higher band estate tax and hasn’t actually got that many residents. Father mathew doens’t pay rent, Lars etc are still quite new, Forrest is new ish, leaving his income for a long time dependent on 2 peasant familys and the Gawen’s.
Basically long story short while the other lords could for the most part afford to buy their property’s Valdermar could not and ended up taking out a huge mortgage. In addition to this lorcan is in Knights training and i figure Valdermar is to proud to withdraw him and admit he’s struggling. All in all this means Valdermar’s in major financial hell right now.
The solution TAX RAISE!! ok so as the peasants and merchants rounds have been played already it won’t help till next round but still its a step in the right direction.
Right now people on his estate pay
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Adult – $300
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Child – $50
New Rate –
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Adult – $350
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Child – $75
It’s worth noting that the Gothier family although have a reasonable amount of cash on hand can in no way afford this number for very long. That doesn’t matter it’s not Valdermar’s problem its Helena and Stephan’s.
In addition to this there is another thing to consider, Valdermar murdered Lucy Shaw (Head of the Shaw estate) and even though King Thomas isn’t very amused by this state of affair’s the current vampire situation mean’s Valdemar can quite legally take possession of Lucy’s estate. Now i suspect he isn’t going to want to pay estate tax on two estate’s so he’s liable to leave the lands to Lucy’s son Aiden but it’s reasonable to assume he’ll move all take possession of all indentured men on Lucy’s estate.
Looking at the Shaw estate there are the following familys
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Carpenter (Orion) – Indentured Merchant
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Faron Carpenter – Indentured Merchant
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Aiden Jones – Indentured Merchant
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Hayden Huntsman – Free Merchant
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Bran Howard – Free Merchant
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Phoenix Goldman (Lucy’s servants) – Servants Class
Out of these the only ones with any real choice about where they go is Hayden and Bran. With Lucy dead, It’s sensible to assume Hayden will move to the cheapest estate which is the Vaux’s, same with Bran.
Phoenix and his wife Heather where Lucy’s servants and have been left with Lucy’s Children, So i think it’s reasonable to assume Thomas will move them to his own estate to protect them leaving the children in the care of the Goldman’s rather than giving the responsibility for raising them to an outsider. He will however take on the cost of educating the children himself at least till Aiden the hier is old enough to take back the Shaw Estate.
Still that leaves 3 family’s forcibly moved to the Baeumont estate, it won’t effect much this round but next round certainly things are going to be different for all involved.
This does however mean that Valdemar is going to land himself in yet more debt after all the new family’s will need houses … eeek oh well i’ll sort it out next round, hopefully i can move some of them into existing owned apartments.
Ok my first move of the round is to cash in the lot income token’s this raises Valdemar just over $46,000 not bad considering. Next move is to use this to pay off as much of the mortgage as possible, I’ll buy more bush’s as and when i need to be for now the least im paying less.
The round it’s self is fairly uneventful other than the staggering amount of Debt Valdemar is now in.
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