Massive home addition causes confusion in Fairfax County neighborhood

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Anonymous wrote:No way this is an American family.

Why, what really is “American “?

Do you mean “White”?

No, they mean a more recent immigrant, who can be white as well.

I stayed away from buying near "family compounds" as I called them when we were looking. At least one in our neighborhood is owned by white American born folks, but I have no desire to live near them either.

Perhaps you and Courtney can work together to bring back redlining.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised the neighbor doesn't see a problem with being such a jerk to the family building this addition. When it is finished, it will give them a very good view of the neighbor's yard and any illegal or disallowed activities they might do. There's no law against video recordings of yards.

That’s a huge leap. If anything, I would think the family building the addition would have thought in advance about being good neighbors.

They thought people would like it, until Courtney started attacking them online.

Trust me, Courtney isn’t the only neighbor who was angry. She’s just the one most directly affected.

She did incite those others, though.

My point is that the homeowner building the addition is in a very strong position to make things unpleasant for Courtney. The more she throws her temper tantrum, the bigger the grudge will be. She isn't going to win this- it is just a matter of how badly she loses.

How would you know whether or not that is what happened? Are you part of any of the neighborhood boards/chats?

It is crazy to most of the neighbors in this ‘hood that something like this somehow got approved by the county.

Maybe the family really is that out of touch that they think this is lovely or whatever. Maybe they are shocked at the uproar. Who knows?

I don’t think the neighbors, including Courtney, actually care whether or not this family talks to them again. There have been rumblings of legal proceedings, but nothing has actually happened as of yet. The neighborhood seems to have settled into wait and see on this house and then moving forward with pursuing code changes through Herrity to prevent something like this for others going forward. The homeowner and family needs to watch their step going forward, though, as any shenanigans against neighbors or wrt who is living in this monstrosity will be brought to the attention of the proper authorities.

Didn't you read the articles and watch the videos? They lay out how this went down.

The "rumblings" about a lawsuit won't go beyond that. There isn't a cause of action.

I’ve read and seen everything I have been able to find, including what is on this thread.

I also am privy to the neighborhood chats, so know full well how this actually went down. Shoot, I even went online to get the Elliot in the Morning clips. My husband was out of town and getting texts from his office that he should call in because they were looking for people who have seen this thing in person.

So I’m not really sure what info you think I am lacking.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No way this is an American family.

Why, what really is “American “?

Do you mean “White”?

No, they mean a more recent immigrant, who can be white as well.

I stayed away from buying near "family compounds" as I called them when we were looking. At least one in our neighborhood is owned by white American born folks, but I have no desire to live near them either.

Perhaps you and Courtney can work together to bring back redlining.

I can guarantee you that very few in Greenbriar would support anything of the kind. We love our neighbors from all over the world. This family has been around for a while, so they aren’t a new family and/or recent immigrants. I know several of us fought back against videos that were attacking the family as “foreigners”

No one’s issue is with the family itself.