In article .com,
wrote:

"Please give us reasonable examples of such things. Paint color, as
you know, doesn't count because that can be changed very easily and is
highly a matter of personal taste anyway. "

Sorry, but paint color does matter if it's totally out of character
with everything else nearby. Like the example I gave long ago. Take a
nice neighborhood of very conventional mid-America looking homes. But,
you have one homeowner that's ****ed off at the neighbors. Probably
for some reason like the neighbors got tired of his dog running loose
and crapping in their yards or chasing their cats. So they called
animal control on him. So now he's ****ed off and to get even, decides
to paint his house with graffiiti so it looks like a wall from an
overpass in Harlem. He knows two other homeowners are trying to sell
their houses, while he has no intention of leaving anytime soon. And
to make things even better, he puts every conceivable lawn ornament,
starting with pink flamingos, and moving on to painted toilets, which
he claims are legitimate lawn decorations, out for everyone else to
see.

Now, without a HOA, despite that it's only a house color and lawn
decorations, how exactly do you "very easily change that?" And don't
give us the BS that it won't affect property values, because every
reasonable person knows that it does.


Sounds like a lot of trouble to go through just to annoy two people who
are selling their houses anyway. How often does this happen? I'm guessing
very rarely. How often does it work and the sellers actually lose money?
I'm guessing even less often.


Dimitri