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Anonymous wrote:The thing people are missing is this is clearly elder abuse. The older parents own the home. Not that son in the news. He is not a neighbor, homeowner or anything. He is just a mooch who is somehow tore apart that home into a ugly mess and left his parents with a ton of legal issues, unwanted publicity, angry neighbors and for now a unsellable house.

The ownership has switched back and forth between son and parents several times. Unclear why, but I certainly wouldn’t say this situation is indicative of elder abuse.

So would you go to your MIL or FIL and ask for house to be put in your name for free?

Have you heard of inheritance? In any case, maybe they wanted to switch off who had tax liability.

Anything about elder abuse is pure speculation.

Pure fact the owners of house are parents. Not son.

They seem to have mixed finances, which isn't surprising given they're a single household. I'm not sure what point you're getting at. It certainly isn't indicative of elder abuse or fraud.

Sometimes elderly people don’t understand decisions that an adult child is making for them. If an elderly person owns a house and their adult children come in and start making changes that are not necessarily in the best interest of the elderly owner, that could be seen as elder abuse, especially if there is any evidence of cognitive decline on the part of the owner.

It really depends a lot on the ages of the elderly people involved and how much cognitive decline they are experiencing, among other factors.

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Anonymous wrote:My friend lived in an Ashley and did a major Reno that basically turned it into a colonial with 5 brs.

Did they have to do major foundation work to create the full second level?

In this area, I will speculate that any pop-up will require some foundation work. The marine soils that we have weren't as well understood 50 years ago, and IMHO all of foundations were underbuilt.

So are you saying that if Mike will have to have foundation work done if he adds a floor to the main house after the tower is finished, as he suggested in one of the news interviews that he might do? How difficult, or easy, is that to do when you factor in the new addition already in place?

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Anonymous wrote:The thing people are missing is this is clearly elder abuse. The older parents own the home. Not that son in the news. He is not a neighbor, homeowner or anything. He is just a mooch who is somehow tore apart that home into a ugly mess and left his parents with a ton of legal issues, unwanted publicity, angry neighbors and for now a unsellable house.

The ownership has switched back and forth between son and parents several times. Unclear why, but I certainly wouldn’t say this situation is indicative of elder abuse.

So would you go to your MIL or FIL and ask for house to be put in your name for free?

Have you heard of inheritance? In any case, maybe they wanted to switch off who had tax liability.

Anything about elder abuse is pure speculation.

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Anonymous wrote:My friend lived in an Ashley and did a major Reno that basically turned it into a colonial with 5 brs.

Did they have to do major foundation work to create the full second level?

In this area, I will speculate that any pop-up will require some foundation work. The marine soils that we have weren't as well understood 50 years ago, and IMHO all of foundations were underbuilt.

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Anonymous wrote:The thing people are missing is this is clearly elder abuse. The older parents own the home. Not that son in the news. He is not a neighbor, homeowner or anything. He is just a mooch who is somehow tore apart that home into a ugly mess and left his parents with a ton of legal issues, unwanted publicity, angry neighbors and for now a unsellable house.

The ownership has switched back and forth between son and parents several times. Unclear why, but I certainly wouldn’t say this situation is indicative of elder abuse.

So would you go to your MIL or FIL and ask for house to be put in your name for free?

Have you heard of inheritance? In any case, maybe they wanted to switch off who had tax liability.

Anything about elder abuse is pure speculation.

Pure fact the owners of house are parents. Not son.

They seem to have mixed finances, which isn't surprising given they're a single household. I'm not sure what point you're getting at. It certainly isn't indicative of elder abuse or fraud.

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Anonymous wrote:No one has posted explicitly anti-Asian content, but as an Asian myself, I can detect some dog-whistling in certain posts. Having lived in Caucasian-majority countries all my life, it's water off a duck's back for me at this point, and I don't really care... but just because I'm not offended doesn't mean it isn't there! There is an underlying subtext of "look at these lowly immigrants with no sense of decorum ruining the neighborhood" going on, and it's useless to deny it.

And you know what? They have no sense of decorum!!! I take offense at that, on their poor neighbor's behalf. Also I'm not happy that someone who looks Asian is bolstering anti-Asian sentiment and helping racists think their immigration notions are rooted in reality. What did Stephen Miller say? Even immigrants' kids are tainted? Racists only need one example to vilify and mistreat an entire ethnic group...

I disagree. In my rural county, we had a local named "Randy" who kept adding mobile homes to his property for each of this kids. He eventually accumulated five trailers on a 1.5 acre lot. The county board and his neighbors were pissed, but you couldn't do anything since zoning allowed essentially a DIY trailer park.

I would watch Randy's reality show.

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Anonymous wrote:My friend lived in an Ashley and did a major Reno that basically turned it into a colonial with 5 brs.

Did they have to do major foundation work to create the full second level?

In this area, I will speculate that any pop-up will require some foundation work. The marine soils that we have weren't as well understood 50 years ago, and IMHO all of foundations were underbuilt.

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Anonymous wrote:The thing people are missing is this is clearly elder abuse. The older parents own the home. Not that son in the news. He is not a neighbor, homeowner or anything. He is just a mooch who is somehow tore apart that home into a ugly mess and left his parents with a ton of legal issues, unwanted publicity, angry neighbors and for now a unsellable house.

The ownership has switched back and forth between son and parents several times. Unclear why, but I certainly wouldn’t say this situation is indicative of elder abuse.

So would you go to your MIL or FIL and ask for house to be put in your name for free?

Have you heard of inheritance? In any case, maybe they wanted to switch off who had tax liability.

Anything about elder abuse is pure speculation.

Pure fact the owners of house are parents. Not son.

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Anonymous wrote:The thing people are missing is this is clearly elder abuse. The older parents own the home. Not that son in the news. He is not a neighbor, homeowner or anything. He is just a mooch who is somehow tore apart that home into a ugly mess and left his parents with a ton of legal issues, unwanted publicity, angry neighbors and for now a unsellable house.

The ownership has switched back and forth between son and parents several times. Unclear why, but I certainly wouldn’t say this situation is indicative of elder abuse.

So would you go to your MIL or FIL and ask for house to be put in your name for free?

Have you heard of inheritance? In any case, maybe they wanted to switch off who had tax liability.

Anything about elder abuse is pure speculation.

Pure fact the owners of house are parents. Not son.

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Anonymous wrote:My friend lived in an Ashley and did a major Reno that basically turned it into a colonial with 5 brs.

Did they have to do major foundation work to create the full second level?

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Anonymous wrote:The thing people are missing is this is clearly elder abuse. The older parents own the home. Not that son in the news. He is not a neighbor, homeowner or anything. He is just a mooch who is somehow tore apart that home into a ugly mess and left his parents with a ton of legal issues, unwanted publicity, angry neighbors and for now a unsellable house.

The ownership has switched back and forth between son and parents several times. Unclear why, but I certainly wouldn’t say this situation is indicative of elder abuse.

So would you go to your MIL or FIL and ask for house to be put in your name for free?

Have you heard of inheritance? In any case, maybe they wanted to switch off who had tax liability.

Anything about elder abuse is pure speculation.

Pure fact the owners of house are parents. Not son.

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Anonymous wrote:No one has posted explicitly anti-Asian content, but as an Asian myself, I can detect some dog-whistling in certain posts. Having lived in Caucasian-majority countries all my life, it's water off a duck's back for me at this point, and I don't really care... but just because I'm not offended doesn't mean it isn't there! There is an underlying subtext of "look at these lowly immigrants with no sense of decorum ruining the neighborhood" going on, and it's useless to deny it.

And you know what? They have no sense of decorum!!! I take offense at that, on their poor neighbor's behalf. Also I'm not happy that someone who looks Asian is bolstering anti-Asian sentiment and helping racists think their immigration notions are rooted in reality. What did Stephen Miller say? Even immigrants' kids are tainted? Racists only need one example to vilify and mistreat an entire ethnic group...

I disagree. In my rural county, we had a local named "Randy" who kept adding mobile homes to his property for each of this kids. He eventually accumulated five trailers on a 1.5 acre lot. The county board and his neighbors were pissed, but you couldn't do anything since zoning allowed essentially a DIY trailer park.

+1, I've lived in diverse areas and also lived in overwhelmingly white areas and people just don't like neighbors who drag down the neighborhood with ugly and sometimes burdensome choices. And white people do stuff like this ALL THE TIME.

I think what the PP is sensing is more a general classism that is unrelated to race. There may also be some anti-immigrant sentiment but I don't think it's Asian specific. If the neighbors where Italian or Russian and doing the same thing, I think there would still be an air of "why don't these foreigners get why this sucks?" but it wouldn't be racist. Immigrants often don't understand nuances like the idea that a neighbor is going to be pissed off if you build an extension that blocks all the light from their yard, because they may come from a place where no one feels entitled to light in their yard, and that's always going to cause a cultural conflict regardless of the race of the people involved. I guarantee that white Americans who immigrate to other countries are often greeted with this same exasperation when they don't "get" things about the local culture. It's just a very common immigrant experience and actually much more common in more homogenous cultures than it is in the US, but of course it still happens here too.

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Anonymous wrote:The thing people are missing is this is clearly elder abuse. The older parents own the home. Not that son in the news. He is not a neighbor, homeowner or anything. He is just a mooch who is somehow tore apart that home into a ugly mess and left his parents with a ton of legal issues, unwanted publicity, angry neighbors and for now a unsellable house.

The ownership has switched back and forth between son and parents several times. Unclear why, but I certainly wouldn’t say this situation is indicative of elder abuse.

So would you go to your MIL or FIL and ask for house to be put in your name for free?

Have you heard of inheritance? In any case, maybe they wanted to switch off who had tax liability.

Anything about elder abuse is pure speculation.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has posted explicitly anti-Asian content, but as an Asian myself, I can detect some dog-whistling in certain posts. Having lived in Caucasian-majority countries all my life, it's water off a duck's back for me at this point, and I don't really care... but just because I'm not offended doesn't mean it isn't there! There is an underlying subtext of "look at these lowly immigrants with no sense of decorum ruining the neighborhood" going on, and it's useless to deny it.

And you know what? They have no sense of decorum!!! I take offense at that, on their poor neighbor's behalf. Also I'm not happy that someone who looks Asian is bolstering anti-Asian sentiment and helping racists think their immigration notions are rooted in reality. What did Stephen Miller say? Even immigrants' kids are tainted? Racists only need one example to vilify and mistreat an entire ethnic group...

I disagree. In my rural county, we had a local named "Randy" who kept adding mobile homes to his property for each of this kids. He eventually accumulated five trailers on a 1.5 acre lot. The county board and his neighbors were pissed, but you couldn't do anything since zoning allowed essentially a DIY trailer park.