NEIGHBORS PETITION TO STOP BRONZE STAR WINNER FROM BUILDING A HOME IN THEIR AREA, AND YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHY

NEIGHBORS PETITION TO STOP BRONZE STAR WINNER FROM BUILDING A HOME IN THEIR AREA, AND YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHY. This guy should get the house, sell it to the local Hell’s Angels chapter and move someplace where he’s wanted. It would be sweet revenge on the pukes in this neighborhood.

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  • Seems from the article that the house will comply. I live in a gated community with a pretty strict building code requirement. A wounded warrior is getting a house built for him courtesy of a number of organizations. The house does NOT conform to the neighborhood. In fact it looks like sh!t. My wife's best friend lives next door to the house and the price disparity is over $1,000,000 between the two houses. Does that make my wife's friend and her husband bad people for fighting against (and losing) the battle to either relocate the house to another lot or modify its design to conform? Is that fair?

    In Tampa, we've taken a horrible beating in real estate. Anything that further diminishes our values is a real loss. Like I said, the article suggests there seems to be a resolution and the story is really a nonstory. There is no resolution in my neighborhood. Any compassionate person wants our war veterans taken care of but even their rights must stop when they infringe on the rights of others. BTW, for those who don't know me, i am a veteran but I also am a homeowner and responsible for the financial security of my family.

    • There are ways to handle the situation when things are still in the preliminary stages. Instead of fighting against it, since it wasn't yet built, the community could have just contacted who they needed to contact and be welcoming while at the same time, make damn sure the house complies and if needed they (the neighbors) apport their time/money to make sure that the veteran is accepted and that his house complies. Acting bratty from the off is off putting and that is the problem that I have with them. However, it will be resolved and that is great. The problem was that since it seemed that they didn't want the veteran there, the neighbors came off as assholes. I have the right to feel that way, because that is just how they came off. Since the house wasn't built yet there were ways to handle it without coming off as snobbish.

      Now I don't know what the issue was with your community. Did your community/etc asked the organizations what was what and to make sure they complied while at the same time be neighborly? Did the organizations refuse outright or your hoa just didn't intervene in time? Like I said there are ways to handle situations, be good people and still make sure that the home complies. Without more details I am unable to know why the house wasn't made to comply before it was built. Now after it was built I don't see a problem with asking justly for the house to comply seeing how it affects the houses nearby, however my question is is the person able to make those changes or to relocate the house? If he or she is unable to do so will he or she get help from the organizations/neighbors/HOA etc.? Again I need more details.

      • I don't have all the details but it seems the five member board must have granted an exemption. The street in which the house is being built requires side-facing garages. The vet's house has a forward facing garage. I've heard of builders who have had to tear up slabs because they were about to put up a forward facing garage. The vet's roof is a shingle one but the street requires barrel tile. It goes on. My wife had lunch with her friend who lives next door yesterday where she announced they're selling their house regardless of any loss. Too bad but the value of their place has been diminished because the board refused to keep any integrity in their building requirements. There are many other streets with foreclosed houses that could have been retrofitted for a wheelchair bound person acquired for less money than building where they did.

        I don't blame the veteran. The board is to blame for this since multiple options were available and they chose the worst one.

        • Well then, that was just completely stupid!
          If they could have bought a foreclosure and retrofitted it for less than building a new house, this was a huge mistake, and the board needs to be removed. Personally, if it were me, I would have opted for the nicer house, even if I had to wait a little longer for the foreclosure paperwork and retrofit. However, I find it a little odd that the friend would sell regardless of loss. I don't know if I would go that far. Instead, I would petition the board to take the foreclosure retrofit option, and even contribute to the fund. It seems to me that it would cost them less to go that route.

          • My friend is loaded. He can take the loss. He and his brother own a slaughter house and supply beef to McDonalds and Burger King. That said, I feel bad for him because he just put a very nice home theater and pool deck extension on.

            Our board is made up of four incompetents and one rational person who is always outvoted.

          • Don't you get to vote for new board members occasionally?
            The other option would be to fire the whole board and hire a management company, that way these decisions would be out of the residents hands. A management company would be required to follow the HOA charter with no deviations.

          • Funny you mentioned that. The rational board member is newly elected and I'm contemplating running in the next election against a long-time member who is up next year.

            We do have a CDD that supposedly ensures no deviations but the HOA is so corrupt that "stuff" happens.

          • Be careful about running for the board, the useless ones might just wait until you are out of town on business to hold the votes, and still get their way. Can you assign a proxy for your vote in such cases?

    • I don't fault you for that, if a gated community has construction standards, the house should conform. This article does show that the house will conform, and I think the neighbors are just being petty. In your case, I think it is a mistake to build a house that is so different, and it should have been put in a neighborhood that it fits better.

  • HOAs can be a pain the ass. Mine isn't terribly intrusive, even though I have the nosiest next door neighbor this side of Gladys Kravitz. She once asked my partner why I was always coming home so late at night (um, because I manage a bar?). I'm just glad this story have a positive side to it. The exposure has helped raise over 40K towards the mortgage mostly from the folks in Morton, as well as a fundraising push from Rep. Schock. By the time this is over, the family will proably be able to pay everything off outright.

  • I like the Hells Angels idea, but they can be decent neighbors, I would give the house to the Pagans, much more likely to be less than good neighbors.

    • When we were living in our RV in San Diego, our neighbor across the road from us was the personal videographer for Sonny Barger. I got to know him when helping him remove his Harley from the hydraulic rack on the back of the rig. He has some disabilities from a crash many years ago, lots of burns and such.

      Really nice neighbor, I would hear classical music from his RV on a regular basis. Our cat took up residence on his rattan door mat, spend lots of time there. When he moved on, he gave the door mat to our cat as a gift. She still sleeps on it, lying in the sun outside.

      • Great story, but I have to ask, did he ever climb on Vlad, or just look askance (like I'm sure you see all the time, you know they WANT to, but...)?

        • I see people all the time that obviously would have fun riding a giant rocking unicorn, but are afraid of what people would think. No, our neighbor never got on, but he did hang around asking questions whenever I was out working on the horses. Most people have never seen a big hunk of carved plywood, and it's intriguing even on just a technical level.

          • We DO have a ladder for people to climb up with, Rose. It also locks the horse from rocking while you climb up. I'd have a much more difficult job without the stairs, having to hoist people up and down all day by hand, or getting on my knees and letting them walk up my back. (That last one's reserved for hotties in heels.)

            I do caution them as they dismount, though. "Careful on the stairs, they're the most dangerous part of the ride! No, really! When you get home, go on that interweb thing you've got, and look up accident statistics. You'll find a page that lists where the most accidents happen. Stairs will be near the top of that list. They're very dangerous. Now, look all the way down that list, giant rocking unicorns aren't even ON there!"

  • Why not get together with Habitat ask what's what and state okay let's make it of brick of whatever and we can help out? Seriously people are disgusting sometimes. I would feel bad for him to live in the neigborhood.

  • In that case, maybe these nosy turds would rather have some neighbors that came from inner city Detroit.

  • A bunch of busy bodies who didn't bother with getting the facts. It should be an honor to have this man and his family as neighbors. He has earned the respect he's entitled too. If he wishes to move to this area of Kentucky, I would certainly welcome him into my neighborhood.

  • I agree with the neighbors. If their HOA specifies brick construction and HFH is going to make it out of wood, they are right to complain. Now the right thing to do? Get together as a community and buy the materials needed to make this home compliant with their HOA rules as a 'house warming' present to the new neighbors.

    • Habitat always makes sure their homes fit in the neighbor hood. Where did the homeowners ever get the idea that it wouldn't. Sound like sabotage to me.

      • In all truth, the neighbors are just snobby bastards. They equate HFH homes as homes for the poor and destitute and they probably didn't want that stigma attached to their neighborhood and that is just disgusting and snobbish to the max.

        • Habitat houses ARE designed to assist people too poor to buy a house on their own. But not destitute. They get a low or no interest loan, but they have a mortgage to pay. And their downpayment is paid in "sweat equity" where they work other habitat houses. The neighbors areidiots. But I am concerned that a decorated veteran has to go through Haabitat for a decent home.

        • HOA's and their officers can be a PITA. My wife ran and served as VP of ours for about 7 months. She ran to get some improvements done in our hood. The backbiting and in-fighting among the officers was so bad, I was embarrassed for my wife to be involved with the whole mess. Toss in the 10%ers ( nosy, intolerant busy bodies ) and our phone was ringing every 15 minutes!

          This story probably has a few of these type people driving the NIMBY movement. Once they dig in, an amicable resolution becomes difficult. I suspect the decent people in this community will take over and this young family will wind up getting a nice home that fits the HOA regulations.

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