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You might just have to suck it up and figure you can't win every battle. Our next door neighbor's home is painted blue - no way would our HOA have permitted that. We don't know how they pulled it off. There's nothing I can do but they are nice people so I just blow it off.
Why is it a concern to you that they painted their house blue?
Why is it a concern to you that they painted their house blue?
The rest of the community complies to certain architectural guidelines. Having one house completely standing out looks bad. It's a light blue, sky blue. The remainder of the homes are various earth tones.
People complain about things that really don't concern them. It's kind of funny.
Some people want the one house that stands out.
Some people want high trees and bushes.
It doesn't sound like they are slobs or leaving garbage around their yards. Why care so much? Maybe they do it to make your house look better. If you care that much, you move to an HOA that regulates all of these minor details.
Ugly, and he still made bank. BTW-His house didn't impact values of anyone else around him: Park Slope
The rest of the community complies to certain architectural guidelines. Having one house completely standing out looks bad. It's a light blue, sky blue. The remainder of the homes are various earth tones.
It would seem that house also complied, or else the HOA would have not approved it. I love to see color in the lands of boring beige houses.
I live in the country. I've got a neighbor who religiously mows his grass and trims. I don't. I try to keep the grass down to where it doesn't harbor pests, but gasoline costs money and it takes time, especially when you are mowing a couple of acres regularly. Also, with that amount of mowing on rough land, I regularly have to buy mowers because of breakdowns.
If anything, I want my property value to be LOWER not higher. I'm not trying to flip my property, and a lower valuation means lower taxes.
Here is the game that everyone else plays:
I just bought a rock for $100,000, I'm now a proud rock owner. WHAT a status symbol. I'm in high cotton!
I enjoy the rock and I want it to look nice, so I'll buy some rock polish for $10,000
A year has passed, and I need to buy more rock polish
My neighbors are now impressed at how shiny my rock is
The taxman just came by and congratulated me on my shiny rock
He said it is now worth $200,000, so instead of paying $5,000 in taxes on my rock, I'll be paying $10,000 in taxes. Wheee!
My rock now costs $20,000 per year in rock polish and taxes. Hmmm.
I have to insure my rock, so I pay another $10,000 in rock insurance. Boy, insurance is expensive here.
Isn't it WONDERFUL that since I have lived here five years my rock has appreciated in value to $200,000?
If I sell my rock, after I've paid the closing costs and realtor, I can take away $80,000 profit - free and clear as long as I buy another rock within a year.
With financial thinking like mine, as a proud rock owner, we could start a bank!
Someone who pays out non-productive money for years on end and then calls their inflation a "profit" has rocks in their head. They are fun to watch though, getting all upset about the proper settings for their rocks.
Maybe the neighbor has a physical limitation preventing them from maintaining the berm, and trimming the hedges. The rest of the yard is maintained, so maybe there is something else going on.
Maybe the neighbor has a physical limitation preventing them from maintaining the berm, and trimming the hedges. The rest of the yard is maintained, so maybe there is something else going on.
He could always hire a gardening service if he wanted it done.
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