When you play a game of fuck around and find out, don't be surprised if a negatively loaded question is responded with a negative counter answer. Ja bless

No this is not a cult. The grace farm foundation promotes its mission, and the church is a seperate an entity. The foundation was formed by Bob Prince, co-CIO of Bridgewater, with his wife as the president. It's for sure a large tax write off, but both the foundation and church are positive and contribute to community culture. I don't know wh you'd think it's a cult, other than feeling insecure bout your socio economic status.

Increase is likely systematic, but if you're looking for idiosyncrasies I'd: compare the cities metrics YoY, n vs the independent appraisal. Then flup w the city for clarification why something seems off.

Property value goes up but mill rate goes down. The real increase is a marginal %

It's based on comparables, but given the sq footage for the area it'd not unreasonable. I get where you're coming from tho, person who flipped the house is gonna walk away w almost double their initial investment