Posted on 06/05/2014 9:21:29 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
A Bradenton family says they've been hounded by code enforcement, and they've had enough....
Brent Greer and his wife are doing a little redecorating. The new paint job is unmistakable - the front of the home is a massive flag. Brent Greer hopes it sends a message.
He said, "I painted it to remind the city and all that live here that this is America. This is a free country. This is my home. This is not a shrine to Riverview Boulevard."
(Excerpt) Read more at wptv.com ...
Good luck friend. You can't fight City Hall.
Well, God Bless America.
Love it! Unfortunately if it’s not in code he’ll be fighting the city over property condemnation.
The guys taking care of SEVEN Foster children and they give him nothing but grief. Go rid your town of all the crack houses before you go after guys like this Bradenton. Aholes.
I didn't particularly care for the sherbet colors some of my Mexican neighbors painted their houses in when I live in Southern California. But I got over it.
Gee, doesn’t Bradenton have a platoon of armed-up goons in Code Compliance that they could send out in the Parks Dept’s. MRAP?
Sign that would be appropriate in front of the house:
IF OUR U.S. FLAG PAINT JOB OFFENDS YOU, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO MOVE TO A LOCATION REPRESENTED BY ANY OTHER FLAG OF YOUR CHOICE
Where does any city or township have on the books a specific code about HOW your house must be painted?? I know certain HOA have rules but you are pulling out of someone’s hat
It’s what whining Liberals do! This guy is a straight up American and Some fool @ the City wants to mess with him!
Paint and caulk around windows is a code violation? Give me a break! That weasel of a code enforcer need to be ran out of town on a rail, tarred and feathered! And that somebody that didn’t like the Christmas tree I’d be calling every hour to the City about anything I could see on their property that even looks like a code violation!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
How many homeowner's associations and school officials have gone down in the the light of public scrutiny of stupid and senseless rules? It is only unfortunate that people have to go this far to show petty bullies for what they are.
Yeah, on the one hand it’s stupid. On the other hand . . .
My neighbor abandoned his house. Windows got broken out, his pool turned into a mosquito infested swamp, kids started sneaking in and stealing stuff and the next thing you know, a meth-head squatting there caught it on fire. This was over a ten year period.
It was in a nice neighborhood. His stupidity cost us by reducing our home value when we moved (we had no legal means of compensation). We filed complaints with the health department (his yard had become a huge rat nest - with tall grass and half covered with empty beer cans). We filed complaints with the home owner’s association (he had signed an agreement to maintain his property, which he failed to do - they did nothing). We were extremely limited in what we could do, other than suffer the loss of the use and value of our OWN properties so that he could abandon his. The entire street was after this jerk. The house burned down months after we moved, but the house we had sold was saved.
So this home owner got mad at the city and did what? He got off his butt and painted his house. The purpose of the fine is to get people off their butts and do the work. This guy doesn’t say he’s too poor to paint, he’s too poor to pay the fine. Then paint the house, already. Fix the windows.
The city should have better things to do. Got it. I agree. He shouldn’t expect his neighbors, who are the ones who demanded action, to like him or to suffer financial losses because he doesn’t maintain his property.
I don’t think some are tracking on the “freedom comes with responsibility” bit.
Yes, you're right, good point. I didn't see that because I was looking at the David vs Goliath angle.
You could always team up with your neighbors and mow the abandoned yard. Call cops on trespassers etc.
No, that would take too much sense. It is better to sit in your recliner and bitch.
WE DID. The only trespassers the sheriff deputies cared about were the ones they could find easily, i.e., the ones the homeowner complained about taking care of his yard. We also lived in a weird city environment (rigged so the city could collect sales tax from everyone but had very few homes to protect with the police and fire department). Our only law enforcement was Harris County. That’s where Houston is. We lived way outside of Houston. I called 911 several times, once took them over an hour to get there.
And there was NO WAY I was paying to keep up his *#(@^%$ pool. Do you have any idea how much that costs? I didn’t have the money and I didn’t own his house and couldn’t use it. Eventually, after receiving a lot of complaints, the county health department forced him to fill it in with dirt. He could have painted an American flag in it and gone on tv to say how unfair it was. I wouldn’t care as long as he cleaned it up and it wasn’t posing a health risk to my kids. The whole street is lucky nobody was hurt in this fire.
This guy in this case bought a house in a town that had ordinances before he showed up. They don’t sound unfair, but he can work to change them. They aren’t unconstitutional. Even if he does, this guy is still a jerk and a bad neighbor. I may not agree with what the town is doing, but I don’t agree with “supporting” this clown in anything except hoping that he starts taking a little pride in his family, home and community . . . like he’s just started to do.
Read my post above. I did a lot more than sit and bitch. Way to jump to conclusions about a fellow FReeper.
“You could always team up with your neighbors and mow the abandoned yard. Call cops on trespassers etc.”
That is exactly what I was thinking....we must be old, thinking all old fashioned...
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