[VA] Dispute between neighbors in Del Ray

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok guys. It's time to use evil powers for good. What can the homeowners do to really get back at this guy? Legally.
Anything they can do to their home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok guys. It's time to use evil powers for good. What can the homeowners do to really get back at this guy? Legally.
Anything they can do to their home?

I think they should devote their resources to selling and moving. What a terrible situation. If they want to stoop to his level, maybe they could paint the side of their house that he sees a really awful color.

[Anonymous]

I agree that they should just move. I'd honestly worry the stress of living next to this guy would affect my health.

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Can you break dees restrictions?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ok guys. It's time to use evil powers for good. What can the homeowners do to really get back at this guy? Legally.
Anything they can do to their home?

I think they should devote their resources to selling and moving. What a terrible situation. If they want to stoop to his level, maybe they could paint the side of their house that he sees a really awful color.

Who in their right mind is going to buy a house with a known psycho neighbor whose second garage is about six feet from the house? Better they demo, rebuild (further back), and then sell.

[Anonymous]

If I read the article correctly ...

The asshole architect GAVER NICHOLS, had the zoning changed, after he developed the adjacent lots. Took advantage of the new rules for set backs and fire ratings - built an accessory dwelling as close to the property line as possible, and is threatening to call the county on his neighbors, because their ( existing) home is only two feet from his garage and not properly fire rated, since it is so close to another building ( his garage).
Am I understand this correctly?

That is completely fucking evil.

[Anonymous]

In protest, friends of the Linehans have written posts on Facebook and launched a Change.org petition...

LOL @ millennials and their ginormous efforts involving multiple clicks...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why is their kitchen window 2 feet from the property line? Did they bigfoot the lot?

You buy a house with a kitchen window a few feet from the property line, you get what you get. You can't build something on your property (kitchen window, deck, patio) and then tell your neighbor what they can and cannot build next to it.

Interestingly, one of the things that seems to have pissed off the architect is that the homeowners renovated the house he designed, and the article notes that renovation swapped the location of the kitchen and dining rooms. So, blocking their now kitchen windows seems to be payback for that. I'm thinking this guy should not be designing houses if he thinks his work should never be changed by future owners!

His motivation is immaterial. He has a right to do it - whether out of spite, or to store his prized antique car. He may be a jerk, but he has the right to do it.

Just because he has a right to do it doesn't make it right to do. I have a right to wear a t-shirt that says "Rape Nuns" - still not nice behavior.

[Anonymous]

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In protest, friends of the Linehans have written posts on Facebook and launched a Change.org petition...

LOL @ millennials and their ginormous efforts involving multiple clicks...

LOL @ your reading comprehension. The Linehans are middle-aged.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually think the couple who feel entitled to a view of his yard and are filming him are the asses here.

Agreed. If you want control over your view then go buy 50 acres somewhere.

Really? You think it's ok for him to buy a plot of land, petition to be allowed to build 3 houses on it, sell the houses to unsuspecting people, join a zoning board and help change the rules to allow himself to build a garage next to the property line, then purposely build his garage directly in front of their kitchen window? It may be legal but it is a very jerky move. I live in the neighborhood and see his signs all the time and I will never hire him after reading this.

Yes I think it is ok, news flash shit changes. The people in control and who are proactive typically turn out alright. I have little sympathy for people who just hoped stuff would happen. Besides it's delray, they are luckily they don't live next door to some flop house with 5 families cramed in it.

Got it, you're also a big jerk. Ok.

Rather be a jerk than a victim. Sounds like your menopause is flairing up again, you should do something about that.

Wow. This explains a lot. Does this sum up many people? Wow. What a narrow, immature, ignorant and unenlightened view on life.

Yet so very common in DC!

[Anonymous]

If you study the picture the Linehan so already have an outbuilding on the other side of their house and what looks like a shared drive way with Nichols the house are very narrow and turned sideways on the lots so the problem was always there Many homes have sheds and garages on the rear property lines in Nova it is very unfortunate but I wonder if they provokes Nikola somehow ? Like by using Nikola driveway which appears to be their yard ?

[Anonymous]

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In protest, friends of the Linehans have written posts on Facebook and launched a Change.org petition...

LOL @ millennials and their ginormous efforts involving multiple clicks...

LOL @ your reading comprehension. The Linehans are middle-aged.

Middle-aged people aren't allowed to have millennial friends?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

In protest, friends of the Linehans have written posts on Facebook and launched a Change.org petition...

LOL @ millennials and their ginormous efforts involving multiple clicks...

LOL @ your reading comprehension. The Linehans are middle-aged.

Middle-aged people aren't allowed to have millennial friends?

Facebook and change.org are age-restricted to 35 and under?

[Anonymous]

Wow, you'd think middle age people wouldn't be as lazy as millennials, at least with something that directly affects them...

[Anonymous]

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I am a PP and still think it was unethical of the Architect to influence city regulations - changing of setback from 8 feet to 1 foot- when he clearly had a plan in mind to build near a neighbor. Now he doesn't have to ask for a waiver and permission from that neighbor.

Still, I live 6 feet from my neighbor and if they decide to put a large building within a foot of my property, I know I will have to live with it. That's life with a small yard.

I can't see why this is unethical. He apparently was very transparent about the desire to build within a foot of the property line, which is why he lobbied for the setbacks to be changed. Usually when people advocate for changes in law its because the change allows them to do something that they could not do under existing law.