Mercury Ballistic posted:

This house near me got a double take from me:
This can't be right, can it? https://imgur.com/gallery/QjB9L

Mercury Ballistic posted:

This house near me got a double take from me:
This can't be right, can it?

Mercury Ballistic posted:

Look at the windows, now look at the top of the garage door. Does the door open into the floor of that room.

Platystemon posted:

“private balcony”

Kaethela posted:

I wonder if you could piss into the sink from up there.

Mercury Ballistic posted:

This house near me got a double take from me:
This can't be right, can it? https://imgur.com/gallery/QjB9L

Mercury Ballistic posted:

Look at the windows, now look at the top of the garage door. Does the door open into the floor of that room.

Mercury Ballistic posted:

Look at the windows, now look at the top of the garage door. Does the door open into the floor of that room.

Baronjutter posted:

Crappy construction memory triggered!

Back when I was still living with my folks we had some new neighbours move in down the street. A couple with a kid and everyone got a really weird vibe off of them right away. Dude was like an alien trying to seem like a normal sociable human. Mom was fairly quiet and always seemed to be looking over her shoulder or scanning the room for threats. She was some academic from China who had to "flee" for political reasons. Kid was normal.

A few months after they moved in people noticed they were extremely paranoid about their home security and their child's security and privacy. They'd just drop odd little comments here and there about lurking child predators or kidnappers. They'd make little comments about how they got some super secure SUV because it was the hardest to break into or carjack. They got special reinforced and tinted windows for the back so that people can't see their kid when they drove him to school because of course they wouldn't let him walk to school with his friends, that's not secure. I mean not only could the kid be snatched at any moment, anyone could just look at him!

Where things got really weird is the plywood fort they built around their entire property. They didn't build a fence or hire someone to put up something nice, they just bought a load of plywood and 2x4's and built a 6' or so white painted plywood wall around their property along with a big rolling gate. It's a rich neighbourhood but there's no HOA or anything but people started to take notice of the "plywood fortress" and were pretty displeased with it. It wasn't very well built, sagged in areas, didn't follow the terrain nicely, and had a bunch of angled bits of wood propping it up from behind. Most of it was just plywood sitting on the dirt too. Why did they build it? Well they needed a wall for security, and privacy. It had to be tall enough so an adult could not peep over the fence and see their kid, and it had to be totally solid with no gaps or holes that would let someone spy a look at their kid. Wife was also paranoid about chinese agents or something.

When they moved out and sold their house they were SHOCKED that the first thing the new owners did was tear down the plywood hoarding. Why would he do that?? The new owner has 3 kids, why would they not be so happy to already have a pedophile privacy palisade? Now just anyone on the street could sneak a peek of his kids!! He also made sure the wall was listed as a feature for the house, he was so proud of it and thought everyone would want it. poo poo was rotting only a year after he built it.

HycoCam posted:

It has to be a temporary wall... Has to be... Erected to prevent damage to the house from whatever is happening on the neighboring lot. To be taken down when the excavation/foundation work is done or some such reason.

Mercury Ballistic posted:

This house near me got a double take from me:
This can't be right, can it? https://imgur.com/gallery/QjB9L

PetraCore posted:

Are you sure he was actually their kid?

Jordanis posted:

I never picked the aggregate off myself, but I remember seeing the pits where other students had.

Darchangel posted:

On the plus side, I'm seeing at least a 10' 15' ceiling in the garage, there. Plenty of room for a vehicle lift.

Mercury Ballistic posted:

I walked by again today, I could see the garage door rail in the bottom of the windows, so that may be the case. But why?

Darchangel posted:

Plenty of room for a vehicle lift.

Darchangel posted:

I don't expect those of you not posting from Automotive Insanity to understand the appeal.

kid sinister posted:

Darchangel posted:

I don't expect those of you not posting from Automotive Insanity to understand the appeal.

frozenphil posted:

"Mother gently caress! Jian-Yang!"

a denizen of Reddit posted:

Virginia – I sold a house last month, closing was on August 31st. I was served today with a small claims suit of $5,000 because of “leaving litter in the house and causing distress to the new homeowner”

Blacksburg, VA
I sold a house last month that I have lived in for a little over 10 years.
I loved this house and took great care of it. I am a very thorough and nice person. I left highly detailed notes about the house for the new homeowner, including about three dozen sticky notes throughout the house.
The sticky notes were totally benign, most pertained to quirks about the house or placement of where a light switch turned on what plug. So I would put a note next to a light switch and another next to said plug and say “This switch powers the plug with the green sticky note” others said “Rain hits the house from this side, be sure to double check the security of the window or water leaks from this corner.”
The detailed document that I left contained everything from warranty info on the home appliances including who last serviced the HVAC system, when it was installed, stuff on the water heater, roof stuff, etc.
It also had just a list of things like how to take care of a few different trees and shrubs in the yard, what landscaping company I used, the last plumber that came out to fix a drainage issue, who last dealt with the septic system, on and on…I trust you get where I am going with how thorough my list was.
Some backstory: When my parents purchased a home when I was a kid, the previous homeowner did this for them, and it stuck with me. My father used the pages of detailed notes for years, and I thought that was one of the most kind and amazing things a previous homeowner could do for a new homeowner and I decided to mimic it.
Now I am being sued and have a court date in a few weeks because, according to the homeowner, I have caused him profound stress with respect to how to run the house, and that I left litter in the house (I assume he means the sticky notes).
While I do not think his claim is actionable, a part of me has me concerned that he may attempt to argue that I owe him money because I documented the quirks about the house.
Based off what I have posted here on its own, does this new homeowner have any valid claim to this suit?

Platystemon posted:

tl;dr: OP documents their house. No good deed (pun acknowledged) goes unpunished and now OP has to defend themselves from a bogus lawsuit in small claims court.

Platystemon posted:

It has walls on two of four sides.




There are untaxable.

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

I am cornholio, I need teepee for my tax loophole.

therobit posted:

The lawsuit is out of line, but THREE DOZEN sticky notes?

Synthbuttrange posted:

he should just have put together a manual

The Dave posted:

I would kill to have documentation on my house but then again it would probably be more like "the pipe behind this drywall was leaking but we wanted to sell so we just patched the ceiling" and probably "this didn't have a permit".

blugu64 posted:

I've done that when buying cars private party. "Okay we've signed the title, and you have my cash. Did I miss anything that I need to have taken care of?"

Platystemon posted:

tl;dr: OP documents their house. No good deed (pun acknowledged) goes unpunished and now OP has to defend themselves from a bogus lawsuit in small claims court.

kid sinister posted:

therobit posted:

The lawsuit is out of line, but THREE DOZEN sticky notes?

Platystemon posted:

tl;dr: OP documents their house. No good deed (pun acknowledged) goes unpunished and now OP has to defend themselves from a bogus lawsuit in small claims court.

kid sinister posted:

quote:

The care over the church is shared by no less then six denominations. The primary custodians are the Greek Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic and Roman catholic church, with lesser duties shared by Coptic, Ethiopian and Syriac Orthodox churches. The whole edifice is carefully parceled into sections, some being commonly shared while others belonging strictly to a particular sect. A set of complicated rules governs the transit rights of the other groups through each particular section on any given day, and especially during the holidays. Some of the sections of the church however still remain hotly disputed to this day.

...

The famous immovable ladder is a bizarre outcome of this religious stubbornness pushed to extremes. Some time in the first half of the 19th century, someone has placed a ladder up against the wall of the church. No one is sure who he was, or more importantly, to which sect he belonged. The ladder remains there to this date. No one dares touch it, lest they disturb the status quo, and provoke the wrath of others. The exact date when ladder was placed is not known but the first evidence of it comes from 1852.

The ladder hasn’t moved since.