News, Florida homeowners fined for "Starry Night" murals on house (investments, house value)
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While I personally wouldn't paint Starry Night all over my house, I think the homeowners have every right to to do so.
Ultimately, if you want to be assured that your neighbor is prohibited from painting their house any color other than an approved, neutral beige buy into an HOA and consider your monthly dues a worthwhile tax for that peace of mind.
I kinda like it, kinda hate it.
I think the house walls are cool and would have been enough for me. The fence/wall with Van Gogh's face is awfully busy.
That's where I am too--I actually kinda liked it up until Van Gogh's face. Then it got a bit on the creepy side.
Too bad they live in a country where people don't have the freedom to paint their homes the way they like.
Innacurate.
From the complaint:
graphic designs in mostly blue and yellow colors had been painted on a wall at the Subject
Property, and that an advertising sign for a "Painter Artist" with a telephone number was placed in the ground adjacent to the painted wall.
Nancy Nemhauser testified that the painter, Richard Barrenechea,had come to her
and suggested painting the graphic designs on the walls, and that she entered into a written
contract with the painter for the painting of graphic designs on the walls with compensation to
the painter.
The painter advertises his professional services by using photographs of the
graphic designs he painted on the walls of the Subject Property on his internet website, which
also advertises for sale his paintings with designs similar to those on the walls of the Subject
Property.
The graphic designs on the walls and house structure of the Subject Property are
intended to benefit the economic interests of the painter, and therefore constitute commercial
speech which is permissible to be regulated by the City.
I'm glad I live in a country where facts usually matter.
Whether you like the painted house or not, the city is on shaky legal ground by trying to regulate it as a sign. It may be a sign of something about the owner, but it's not a commercial sign as (not) spelled out in the city ordinance. The city may find out that overly broad definitions can become meaningless for legal purposes.
You might want to get your facts straight on that.
Yeah, right. Until the day you decided to sell your home and found out no one would come to the open house or make you an offer. That house in the picture is worth nothing, except maybe to some ex hippie.
Sometimes, being different is not a good thing.
I was never a hippie, so I cannot possibly be an EX hippie. An aspiring hippie, perhaps.
And as far as selling it - there is such a thing as paint, you know. That's how the thing got that way to start with - paint. It isn't permanent. I have absolutely no compunction or desire to live in a house that is fixed up in bland neutral ways for a future sale. It will be set up for ME and how I want to live.
Being different is never a good or a bad thing in and of itself. It just is. This is not the sort of "different" anyone needs to be concerned about. It's not like they went out and killed their neighbors and then painted the house with the blood of their victims.
I hope they don't. Imagine you own a house across the street from them and are trying to sell, there goes your property value. When you do something, you need to look at how does this affect someone else. Does painting my house yellow affect the neighborhood? No, ok then paint it. Does painting my house multiple colors affect the neighborhood? Yes, then don't do it. Many cities, while not HOA's, do have regulations about eyesores.
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