Town of Hillsborough Files Lawsuit Against Iconic ‘Flintstones House’
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my dad used steal from those Hillsborough pussies
People who complain about unique houses as "public nuisances" should just lock themselves in a windowless padded room so nothing can damage their precious little eyes and challenge them in any way.
they really are bastards
they had a trail shut down because they didn't want to see undesirables
I can go on and on about these types of people because I deal with them every year. You live in a slightly more wealthy area, people who don't have real problems start to find things to complain about if you don't conform to their standard of normal.
Some of the worst offenders are people who do their daily runs through my street. I've gotten complaints about my dog barking at them, having a flag pole with the British and American flag in my yard. Complaints about a fence we put up after people were calling the cops about my dog barking
i mean he needed lights for his lighting rig
I'm buying a house in the next few months, and I made damn sure it wasn't part of a homeowners association, they are so terribly nitpicky. Like if your grass is a half an inch to high, you could get fined, I've heard enough horror stories to avoid that sort of neighborhood. Of course, this house in the article is very eccentric, let them do what they want with the land they own as long as its not physically dangerous to others. The article makes it sound like the town is completely anal, even requiring permits to put up lawn decorations, if I were the owner I would add even more wacky stuff at this point.
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Who filed the complaint?
Plant a big obnoxious Fred Flintstone character in their driveway.
It should be just be a frame of Fred Flintstone with the caption "Yabba Dabba Douche-bags!"
Yup. I will never ever ever sign an HOA and I'll tell a realtor to not even think about showing me HOA-attached homes. My property, my choice, as long as it's not a physical hazard to anyone else they have no right to tell me what to do with it.
I've been driving past that house for decades, it's pretty much iconic to that freeway that goes past it. I can't imagine it ever going away.
I am of deepest sympathy to Fred Flinstone. I hope he comes across a flamethrower and sets his neighbors on fire.
I honestly thought you were calling the people who died in the UK's Hillsborough incident pussies for a second. I didn't know this referred to a place in the US too.
Over here, you have to get planning permission for extensions on your house and stuff, but I assume it is different in the US. I remember when people got really pissy about this guy's modification to his home to have a giant great white shark protruding from his roof.
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there are dozens of hillsboroughs in the US
Every HOA here bans company vehicles. Fuck people who work trade jobs apparently. Doesn't help a new small family house STARTS at AT LEADT 300k+ here and puny lots of land with virtually no backyard is 60k+.
Eventually these HOA's are going to just mandate that everyone owns a white mid-size sedan so all vehicles are uniform like the houses and lawns.
oi, you got a license for that shark?
Oh my god retirees are the worst. They have nothing to do except be "neighborhood police". Some guy was threatening to call the cops on me and my roommates, because he was accusing us of "running an auto repair business" out of our garage. Despite that the 4 vehicles in front of our house have not changed over the course of a year and all of the plate numbers are registered to that address. And of course, my roommate was in the middle of replacing some wheel bearings and tie rods, and I was swapping my all seasons for winter tires in the street.
I told him good luck to even get the cops out to look. No HOA so he's effectively powerless. So far, 5 months later, nothing has come of it.
The thing is, though, that they objectively affect property values. While the impact on your assets by the indirect actions of others is generally not actionable, it can be when it comes to real property.
Then don’t buy property next to the crazy flinstones house that’s been there for half a decade.
But that’s part of the catch 22 of the situation.
It it takes people caring about inane bullshit for it to become a objective devaluer to most properties.
If if the property has oil run off or other environmental waste then yeah there’s is property value effects there but it gets weird when it’s just “non standard homes”.
And property values are ridiculous and easily gamed in the first place.
This is the same of reasoning used to excuse segregation. Just because it's profitable does not mean its moral.
Did anyone read the article? The issue is with dinosaurs she put up on the property, not the house itself.
As a paleontologist, I'm now even more irate.
That changes nothing
Jeez we have the same kind of people in my city. We have the largest lake beach in my city, the largest of all nordic countries actually, and Lalandia wants to build a huge water park with camping sites and, resturants etc, it would create a couple of hundreds of jobs and boost our tourism, and our city has one of the highest unemployment rates in the county so this is very much needed.
But there these like 60 people living by that beach who are completely against this and their complaints amongst some other things have postponed the project's start for a while now because they afraid that the project will ruin the area by flooding it with tourists, which is pretty bullshit because this is what the beach looks like every single day during the summer when the weather is good.
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What if you bought your property first? And they moved in, put stuff out on the lawn, and your 250k house dropped 50k in value?
I'm not a fan of home associations or restrictive zoning laws but there's a massive difference between restricting a use of property like the one in question here and committing discrimination on the basis of a protected class. The reasoning was used to excuse segregation. That doesn't make the reasoning itself faulty when it's used to a legitimate end.
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