Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I am reading this right, they met the setback cert.

Administrative Review
Setback cert required prior to next inspection - See Nicole M or Colin G// Removed Admin Hold to Result Wind Bracing Inspection from 11/20
Met | | 11/21/2025

Now there's a different stop work for a wind bracing issue:

Stop Work
Stop Work Order
Wind Bracing Inspection Failed 11/20/25. List of Deficiencies Sent. Stop Work Order Issued 11/24/2025
Applied | Lock | 11/21/2025

The family adding on to their house has lived there a lot longer than the Karen next door. Whether or not she was involved in this, people in that neighborhood will assume she was. She's not going to have any friends left after this. Yet the addition will still be built.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't see the issue in this. They basically took the house and added two stories onto the side part of the house. If you look at the drone images they all have that long side, including the complaining neighbor. Our neighbors did horrible remodels that impacted us but their property and their right to do it.

Did your neighbor's remodel reduce your property value by 25%? Just because something is legal and you CAN do it, doesn't mean you should.

People greatly overestimate the impact a neighboring property has on their home value. 5% max. Probably less.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I am reading this right, they met the setback cert.

Administrative Review
Setback cert required prior to next inspection - See Nicole M or Colin G// Removed Admin Hold to Result Wind Bracing Inspection from 11/20
Met | | 11/21/2025

Now there's a different stop work for a wind bracing issue:

Stop Work
Stop Work Order
Wind Bracing Inspection Failed 11/20/25. List of Deficiencies Sent. Stop Work Order Issued 11/24/2025
Applied | Lock | 11/21/2025

The family adding on to their house has lived there a lot longer than the Karen next door. Whether or not she was involved in this, people in that neighborhood will assume she was. She's not going to have any friends left after this. Yet the addition will still be built.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I am reading this right, they met the setback cert.

Administrative Review
Setback cert required prior to next inspection - See Nicole M or Colin G// Removed Admin Hold to Result Wind Bracing Inspection from 11/20
Met | | 11/21/2025

Now there's a different stop work for a wind bracing issue:

Stop Work
Stop Work Order
Wind Bracing Inspection Failed 11/20/25. List of Deficiencies Sent. Stop Work Order Issued 11/24/2025
Applied | Lock | 11/21/2025

The family adding on to their house has lived there a lot longer than the Karen next door. Whether or not she was involved in this, people in that neighborhood will assume she was. She's not going to have any friends left after this. Yet the addition will still be built.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't see the issue in this. They basically took the house and added two stories onto the side part of the house. If you look at the drone images they all have that long side, including the complaining neighbor. Our neighbors did horrible remodels that impacted us but their property and their right to do it.

Did your neighbor's remodel reduce your property value by 25%? Just because something is legal and you CAN do it, doesn't mean you should.

People greatly overestimate the impact a neighboring property has on their home value. 5% max. Probably less.

No way. The neighbors on either side of that house will see significantly lower value of their homes if and when they try to sell. That monstrosity is awful and truly should never have been allowed.

No, because most people don't care. Even in that case, most neighbors don't care.

Sounds like you need to live somewhere with an HOA that allows you to boss everyone else around.

Anonymous wrote:If I am reading this right, they met the setback cert.

Administrative Review
Setback cert required prior to next inspection - See Nicole M or Colin G// Removed Admin Hold to Result Wind Bracing Inspection from 11/20
Met | | 11/21/2025

Now there's a different stop work for a wind bracing issue:

Stop Work
Stop Work Order
Wind Bracing Inspection Failed 11/20/25. List of Deficiencies Sent. Stop Work Order Issued 11/24/2025
Applied | Lock | 11/21/2025

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't see the issue in this. They basically took the house and added two stories onto the side part of the house. If you look at the drone images they all have that long side, including the complaining neighbor. Our neighbors did horrible remodels that impacted us but their property and their right to do it.

Did your neighbor's remodel reduce your property value by 25%? Just because something is legal and you CAN do it, doesn't mean you should.

People greatly overestimate the impact a neighboring property has on their home value. 5% max. Probably less.

No way. The neighbors on either side of that house will see significantly lower value of their homes if and when they try to sell. That monstrosity is awful and truly should never have been allowed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't see the issue in this. They basically took the house and added two stories onto the side part of the house. If you look at the drone images they all have that long side, including the complaining neighbor. Our neighbors did horrible remodels that impacted us but their property and their right to do it.

Did your neighbor's remodel reduce your property value by 25%? Just because something is legal and you CAN do it, doesn't mean you should.

People greatly overestimate the impact a neighboring property has on their home value. 5% max. Probably less.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't see the issue in this. They basically took the house and added two stories onto the side part of the house. If you look at the drone images they all have that long side, including the complaining neighbor. Our neighbors did horrible remodels that impacted us but their property and their right to do it.

Did your neighbor's remodel reduce your property value by 25%? Just because something is legal and you CAN do it, doesn't mean you should.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In an article today about the White House Ballroom addition, the architect is arguing with Trump about the size. He is quoted as saying that it is a general architecture principal/rule that the addition should never be bigger than the host-structure.

In the Fairfax house, the addition is obviously too big for the host structure. Any architecture (or fool) would know that. Makes me think they didn't use a real architect to design it.

Of course they did not use a licensed architect but not sure if that would have mattered. Fairfax county does not require an architect to seal plans for homeowner projects so as long as the codes are followed. The county is not the curb appeal police. This will be modified and/or torn down to comply with the setback fiasco.

Anonymous wrote:In an article today about the White House Ballroom addition, the architect is arguing with Trump about the size. He is quoted as saying that it is a general architecture principal/rule that the addition should never be bigger than the host-structure.

In the Fairfax house, the addition is obviously too big for the host structure. Any architecture (or fool) would know that. Makes me think they didn't use a real architect to design it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So according to the permits Mike is his own general contractor, which would mean when he said in the interviews that the contractor used the fence as the property line that means him. He used the fence as the property line. It’s his fault.

Mike is not the owner.

Anonymous wrote:So according to the permits Mike is his own general contractor, which would mean when he said in the interviews that the contractor used the fence as the property line that means him. He used the fence as the property line. It’s his fault.