[VA] Dispute between neighbors in Del Ray

[Anonymous]

I'm curious about this has progressed. Is the garage finished? I understand, maybe wrongly, that Alexandria city officials were not planning on taking any action to stop it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious about this has progressed. Is the garage finished? I understand, maybe wrongly, that Alexandria city officials were not planning on taking any action to stop it.

How could they? Everything is legal. That neighbor must have really pissed him off!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious about this has progressed. Is the garage finished? I understand, maybe wrongly, that Alexandria city officials were not planning on taking any action to stop it.

How could they? Everything is legal. That neighbor must have really pissed him off!

Or they were reasonable people and he is insane and majorly overreacted to some perceived wrong. Maybe.

[Anonymous]

I think they should remove or dry wall the kitchen window. Being angry everyday over this is going to kill them~

Not everyone gets a nice view from their kitchen and that is life.

Neighbor is a jerk but there is nothing you can do about that!

[Anonymous]

The neighbors need to find their way to the dark web and quietly hire a skilled arsonist.
Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they should remove or dry wall the kitchen window. Being angry everyday over this is going to kill them~

Not everyone gets a nice view from their kitchen and that is life.

Neighbor is a jerk but there is nothing you can do about that!

I can see your point. However, it's not just about a bad view. What if they need to have repairs done to that side of the house and the two feet of space is inadequate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious about this has progressed. Is the garage finished? I understand, maybe wrongly, that Alexandria city officials were not planning on taking any action to stop it.

How could they? Everything is legal. That neighbor must have really pissed him off!

Or they were reasonable people and he is insane and majorly overreacted to some perceived wrong. Maybe.

Well, there is one side with a "perceived wrong" and one side with an "actual wrong", I suppose.how would you know which is which?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The neighbors need to find their way to the dark web and quietly hire a skilled arsonist.
Problem solved.

Because that is legal, and no way this guy has cameras. Not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they should remove or dry wall the kitchen window. Being angry everyday over this is going to kill them~

Not everyone gets a nice view from their kitchen and that is life.

Neighbor is a jerk but there is nothing you can do about that!

+1

Time to invest in some curtains.

[Anonymous]

Bottom Line: If you hire this spiteful angry control freak, you deserve each other!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bottom Line: If you hire this spiteful angry control freak, you deserve each other!

Perhaps. But I think the neighbor did something to aggravate the builder. Didn't the neighbor know who he was dealing with?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bottom Line: If you hire this spiteful angry control freak, you deserve each other!

Perhaps. But I think the neighbor did something to aggravate the builder. Didn't the neighbor know who he was dealing with?

Oh come on dude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bottom Line: If you hire this spiteful angry control freak, you deserve each other!

Perhaps. But I think the neighbor did something to aggravate the builder. Didn't the neighbor know who he was dealing with?

Did you read the article? They hired a different contractor to renovate and swapped the kitchen and dining rooms. The neighbor built the house and was pissed so put up the wall right outside the window.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bottom Line: If you hire this spiteful angry control freak, you deserve each other!

Perhaps. But I think the neighbor did something to aggravate the builder. Didn't the neighbor know who he was dealing with?

Did you read the article? They hired a different contractor to renovate and swapped the kitchen and dining rooms. The neighbor built the house and was pissed so put up the wall right outside the window.

And most of the posters here haven't bothered to read the back story or know the two protagonists. Neither side is all right and neither side is all wrong.

The architect had this vision of a wonderful shared space. He lived it, breathed it, built it.

The family that bought in to the shared space concept house did it because they got a lot bigger house than they could normally afford in that area -because- it was shared space. A lot of folks looked and then walked away. Anyway, this family that did buy in then proceeded to do what they could to work against the shared space concept at every turn from the beginning. Very passive aggressive actions and lots of snide asides to the neighbors/neighborhood. And with the tree/plantings issue and then the kitchen space, the architect and dreamer of the shared space concept seems to have lost it.

Bottom line: they shouldn't have bought in if they didn't go with the concept and the architect should not have been so offended that his actions, while legal, might have caused him great embarrassment.

[Anonymous]

Did you read it? It was the other neighbors who went against him.