I read this article, https://easyreadernews.com/manhattan-beach-the-emoji-house-war-a-neighborhood-feud-erupts-in-el-porto/, and I conclude that the emoji house owner is a liar and an asshole who doesn't live in that house and painted it that way to spite her neighbor.

While the law may be on their side, I am certainly not. I hope the neighbor finds a good real estate lawyer...

I read this article.... ~ jerry at August 14, 2019 11:18 PM

WTF are "eyelash extensions?"

WTF are "eyelash extensions?"

I'm left wondering what part any given woman is actually her and not faked?

I conclude that the emoji house owner is a liar and an asshole who doesn't live in that house and painted it that way to spite her neighbor.

She best hope that at some point in the future, when she goes to sell and make the big bucks, that other neighbors don't move to declare it a landmark and that it has to be maintained as it is.

http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2019/08/when-is-a-mans.html

It wouldn't bother me, but I could see someone acquiring a paint gun and adding some artistic splashes.

If you have deed restrictions or a HOA then you agreed to let your neighbors have a say in how your house is decorated. If you didn't read the paperwork you signed when you bought your house then that failure is on you.

The rest of the country wishes California reverted to being just about fun at the beach, hot import nights, and a quirky dwellings in unincorporated Malibu.

Can't wait until we all have jungle primaries and then the entrenched state political machine lets you choose People's Choice A or People's Choice B as selected by the People's Committee for Choice, party card required.

WTF are "eyelash extensions?"

My kids tell me they're the Newest Thing, or at least they were a few months ago. They're like false eyelashes, but tend to run longer. Quite a bit longer. Here's a picture to illustrate.

Nothing like paint jobs, tree trimming, and lawn mowing to bring out the Nosy Parkers and busybodies, is there?

Eyelash extensions are fake eyelashes that last several weeks instead of just an evening. They're put on with a different kind of glue.

I, too, came to the conclusion that the property owner was being a vindictive bitch. And you know what? If my neighbor was was running an illegal air b&b next door, I'd turn them in, too. People can do what they want as long as it doesn't affect others, and having a party house next door DOES affect the neighborhood.

Really, though, if you want to live in a neighborhood with a certain aesthetic, find a gated community with an HOA. Of course, then you have people critiquing your own property... but that's the trade-off. My neighbors might not like my roosters and goats and miniature horses, but I don't like their trailer house. We don't have deed restrictions (except no new mobile homes can be brought in, so if theirs burns down or gets taken out by a tornado, they'll have to site-build something.)

The property owner is being a total pill. But she’s allowed to be.

As AHW says, if a neighbor’s aesthetic property choices would bother you (and, indeed, having an ugly house next door can prevent you from selling yours), live in an area with an HOA.

We are DIY xeriscaping our front yard (grass free by 2023 is our goal), and so we have piles of mulch, piles or rock, some finished gardens, and cardboard lying over certain areas (killing the grass for our planned new beds for fall). Oh and we refuse to water our existing grass, so it’s brown right now. Our yard is unsightly. Luckily, our neighbors are aging Austin hippies who, although their yards are manicured, think what we are doing is pretty cool and often walk over to chat about what I’m planning and offer advice on good plants to try.

"If it isn't yours, you'd better roll the dice and hope you have dull neighbors"

Or move to a neighborhood with an HOA that shares your taste, accepting that sooner or later, you will find your own choices restricted to your disappointment. Life is trade offs. An HOA is a way you can deny your neighbors full property rights by joining them in a mutual agreement to sign away those rights. Call it Mutual assured busybodiness.

"the emoji house owner is a liar and an asshole "

Last time I checked, the First Amendment protected liars and assholes just like everyone else.

"If my neighbor was was running an illegal air b&b next door, I'd turn them in, too. People can do what they want as long as it doesn't affect others, and having a party house next door DOES affect the neighborhood."

First, an airbnb doesn't necessarily mean a party house. There can also be owner occupied party houses. An airbnb doesn't intrinsically imply externalities that materially infringe the rights of neighbors, any more than a promiscuous homeowner who has a string of overnight guests, or, for that matter, a homeowner of the "wrong" ethnicity. All any of these do is offend the neighbors', and potential property buyers' preferences, which falls under MYOB.

Much is made of preserving property values, but where in the Constitution is there a right to have the government infringe other peoples' rights to guarantee you a return on an investment? That would imply Exxon stockholders have a right to have climate activists muzzled.

To paraphrase President Ford - a government that can tell your neighbors how to decorate their houses will also have to power to dictate how you live in yours.

"But her neighbor Susan Wieland believes that the wide-eyed emojis with full lashes are meant to look like her. "I feel like I've been directly attacked with my eyelash extensions," Wieland told Easy Reader News. "It's mocking me. It's heartbreaking. I mean, it's literally staring right at me.""

And this is the citizen with a vote, mortified that emojis found on every cell phone everywhere are looking at her.