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This is ridiculous, I'm sure 95% of buyers don't even know what the flag of Puerto Rico looks like, 5% of them if they do, are intelligent enough not to care.
Well its not racial, its an ethnicity thing, which is not the same. While there is no way to know if a given PR family will be loud, based on the cultural characteristics and the advertising of the cultural affiliation, potential buyers may suspect there is a likelihood they will be loud. So, since loud neighbors deters buyers, it may be an issue. On the other hand, the house may just be overpriced or have some undesirable feature like being on a highway.
Cultures are different, its a simple fact. If there where not collective differences, there would not be any cultures, there would just be one culture. Necessarily, some cultures are louder than other cultures, because different behaviors lead to different outcomes. However, culture is not genetically determined, so whether your neighbors participate in that characteristic of the culture or not you can't predict beforehand. It just comes down to propensity as a group. Individuals are...individuals. There are Amish people who have loud parties I'm sure. There are people raised Jainish who... eat meat. Not genetic but voluntary. But most people are gonna guess if you are Jainish you are vegetarian, if you are Amish you are quiet etc. If you are a PR family, many people are going to expect a likelihood of loudness, good dancing and tasty food.
You sound pretty racist to me. First, you assume that your house isn't selling because you have Puerto Rican neighbors. Second, you admit to doing a double take when you see a non-white person in your town. A non racist person would assume that there is an issue with their house not their neighbors preventing the sale. A non racist person would also not even notice if they saw a black or brown skinned person in public. The fact that simply seeing a minority makes you react indicates that you are not completely comfortable with people of other races. I honestly couldn't tell you the race of the various people that I saw this morning, much less three months ago, it just doesn't register as an item of note for me.
You may not be an overt racist but clearly you have some issues with prejudice and bigotry.
It's not racist to be surprised to see someone of non-white descent if your town is nearly 100% white. Obviously, if you live in a big city that's fairly diverse, it's not shocking to see a black, Latino, or Asian, but if your town is 100% one ethnicity or race, yes, you might be taken back by seeing a black or Latino, not in a bad way, but more in a surprised way because you don't come across minorities very often.
Forgot to add they also have a lot of ugly decorations in their yard from parties they have (they throw a lot of outdoor loud parties), and leave out all the chairs and tables and decorations and don't clean it up. They have things hanging from their trees etc.
This is key.
I don't think the buyers are not submitting offers because your neighbors are Puerto Ricans or because they fly the Puerto Rico flag (which I had to look up to see what it looks like), but because they don't maintain their property to the standards of an affluent neighborhood (I do consider neighborhoods with $850k+ homes affluent).
A neighbors flag and ugly (ugly is subjective) hanging yard decorations is not the culprit, in addition, how would a prospective buyer know that the neighbors have loud parties, age, condition, price are more likely factors that your home is not selling. If this is an older home, awkward layouts/landscapes and/or is relatively closer to other homes than most in this price range, then yours will sit.
It's not racist to be surprised to see someone of non-white descent if your town is nearly 100% white. Obviously, if you live in a big city that's fairly diverse, it's not shocking to see a black, Latino, or Asian, but if your town is 100% one ethnicity or race, yes, you might be taken back by seeing a black or Latino, not in a bad way, but more in a surprised way because you don't come across minorities very often.
^^^^^ Yep, especially if you're in one of those up scale WASP communities in CT.
Lol, sorry I had to laugh because in the first post it was just a flag and you were deeply puzzled as if that could possibly be it? Then a few comments and supposedly now there's strange hanging stuff, loud parties etc but other than that they are great neighbors, never had an issue blah blah. You sir, are trolling most definitely.
OP just joined this month and starts out by asking an odd question. And then, by the way, their yard is a mess.
A neighbors flag and ugly (ugly is subjective) hanging yard decorations is not the culprit, in addition, how would a prospective buyer know that the neighbors have loud parties, because age, condition, price are the more likely factors that your home is not selling. If this is an older home, awkward layouts/landscapes and/or is relatively closer to other homes than most in this price range, then yours will sit.
The neighborhood in the description of o/p is more than likely an upscale WASP neighborhood and would be attracting buyers attracted to that type of neighborhood.
And if you don't think the Puerto Rican flag, most people know what the flag looks like unless they live under a rock, would be a turn off to some buyers by their preconceived notion, you must live under a rock.
OP just joined this month and starts out by asking an odd question. And then, by the way, their yard is a mess.
Where are we supposed to go with this?
He is already getting satisfying results in this thread, I say he is a happy little troll right now.
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, age, condition, price are more likely factors that your home is not selling. If this is an older home, awkward layouts/landscapes and/or is relatively closer to other homes than most in this price range, then yours will sit.
