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First of all the police need to be called. It's Property Damage on a large scale if nothing else.
She needs to get the place dusted and swabbed, there will likely be fingerprints and touch DNA.
All neighbours need to be interviewed as there will also be witnesses. Letter dumps and posters out to drag in anyone who was just driving past.
If Police refuse to act Id go to the local newspaper
they would eat this one up!!!!
then they need to sue the Offenders (assuming they have Evidence) to get the house repainted to its original color at the Offenders cost.
Or more ideally, repainted a color both can agree on.
I simply cant believe this is a Q, if this happened to me the Whole World would find out about it.
I may hate the color of your house, but I will defend to the death your right to choose it.
No. It's NOT their house. They have no input on what the neighbor paints their house. You want a color scheme that blends it all in nobody paints a different color ho buy in a HOA.
No. It's NOT their house. They have no input on what the neighbor paints their house. You want a color scheme that blends it all in nobody paints a different color ho buy in a HOA.
look at it this way -
what would solve the neighbor hatred best?
1. repainting the house yellow
2. finding a mutually agreeable shade
I'm talking Bigger Picture - they have to still be neighbours which may take compromise on both sides. Assuming they just don't want to arm up and be hostile that is.
Heck they may agree on a fetching shade of orange or aubergine for all we know.
The homeowner knew immediately who was responsible, but the neighbors have refused to answer their door when she knocks. The company who painted the house said they had a valid work order, and were paid in cash by a woman calling herself Ms. Jane Smith. Supposedly, because the neighbors never actually set foot on the property, they can't be charged with any crime.
What do you mean, "Supposedly..."? If you hire a hit man to kill someone, YOU are responsible. They should immediately file charges with the police. They'll have to get tough to deal with those neighbors.
It could be worse; I had neighbors across the street who were feuding over an easement: one driveway to serve two garages between them. It was a single mom who moved in, and that's when the trouble began. It escalated more and more. Then, when the mom and kids were away for the weekend, the neighbor burned down their house.
There are crazy people out there. Your new neighbors need to get this on the police record. And btw, the police are used to dealing with neighbor disputes. But this is more than just a dispute; trespassing and vandalism occurred. Those neighbors owe the homeowners for a new paint job, at the least.
First of all the police need to be called. It's Property Damage on a large scale if nothing else.
She needs to get the place dusted and swabbed, there will likely be fingerprints and touch DNA.
All neighbours need to be interviewed as there will also be witnesses. Letter dumps and posters out to drag in anyone who was just driving past.
Seeing that the story is 4 months old, from what I understand, there is no swabbing or dusting that will do anything. The police also usually decline to dust outside because the evidence is usually worthless when exposed to weather. I know this from personal experience, the police refused to dust one of my surveillance cameras after my house was broken into and I had the guy on video grabbing the camera to turn it down.
Interviewing will probably be fruitless as well. And if the bit about the "painters" suing for costs of the work, they already know who did it. No need for any of that.
A young couple moved into the neighborhood a few years ago and immediately began harassing their next door neighbor to paint her house because they didn't like living next to a yellow house. When the woman refused, they tried everything they could to get their way, including calling the police on her, reporting her to the city, taking her to court, and trying to form an HOA to force her to bend to their will, all to no avail, because, of course, the woman had a right to paint her house any color she chose.
Then, this:
"I recently had to go out of town for two weeks. When I got back, my house was gray. I actually almost drove past it because I'm so used to my yellow house."
The homeowner knew immediately who was responsible, but the neighbors have refused to answer their door when she knocks. The company who painted the house said they had a valid work order, and were paid in cash by a woman calling herself Ms. Jane Smith. Supposedly, because the neighbors never actually set foot on the property, they can't be charged with any crime.
We had a similar, but also different situation in our neighborhood. A long time resident decided he liked Barney the Dinosaur purple, and proceeded to paint his house that color. We live in a neighborhood where the median price is $450K, and everyone has nice landscaping, and standard exterior colors.
This guy didn't have many friends to begin with, and needless to say, even fewer afterward. Several of us decided to agree to pay for a repaint if he was willing to change the color, especially the two people living on either side of him.
A note was sent via mail and left on his door. He never reached out to anyone, so the hideous purple paint remained.
Unlike the couple accused of repainting the house without the homeowners consent, we just put up with the eyesore, despite being a daily annoyance.
Eventually the house went on the market because the guy died, and fortunately the family buying it changed the exterior color. As a matter of fact, they did all sorts of landscaping, lighting, etc. that has made it one of the better looking places on our block.
The moral of the story is that while many people rail against HOA's, they do serve a purpose of keeping one or two fools from adversely affecting everyone else's property values and piece on mind.
I wish my neighbors would do something like that. My landlord's house & my house (I live in a house behind him) were painted a hideous hideous pinkish rose color with cream trim. My landlord thinks it's gorgeous.....he also chose that color because that's the paint that was on sale that day I guess, no lie. It's putrid, truly.
A young couple moved into the neighborhood a few years ago and immediately began harassing their next door neighbor to paint her house because they didn't like living next to a yellow house. When the woman refused, they tried everything they could to get their way, including calling the police on her, reporting her to the city, taking her to court, and trying to form an HOA to force her to bend to their will, all to no avail, because, of course, the woman had a right to paint her house any color she chose.
Then, this:
"I recently had to go out of town for two weeks. When I got back, my house was gray. I actually almost drove past it because I'm so used to my yellow house."
The homeowner knew immediately who was responsible, but the neighbors have refused to answer their door when she knocks. The company who painted the house said they had a valid work order, and were paid in cash by a woman calling herself Ms. Jane Smith. Supposedly, because the neighbors never actually set foot on the property, they can't be charged with any crime.
If this is true, I like the comment someone made below the article. All the neighbors should paint their houses yellow.
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