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[โ€“] NABDad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A guy bought the property next to my house. He was going to tear down the house that was there, but our historic district stopped him. He had to restore that house and convert it to a duplex. Then he squeezed another house in the strip of land in between.

It is hideous. When my mother-in-law visited, she asked why they were building an office building next door.

It sold for $799,000.

[โ€“] Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

We had an investor do that to us, it was 3 houses down and built 3 units with no parking. Plus the house could look down in our pool and all other homes in the neighborhood were single story. Then they painted it hot pink. It was an eye soar