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I am beginning to truly believe that all our constitutional rights are going down the drain due to...fools like you spouting the PROPERTY VALUES right...which does not exist.

Hm. So you're basically suggesting that my house will sell for the same price regardless of what kind of neighborhood it's in. After all, the prospective buyers will pay no attention to anything beyond my property lines.... (Yeah, right.)

And that I have no legitimate recourse to ensure the quality of life in my neighborhood?

And that I have no right to complain if Joe next door decides to turn his house into a brothel, and the guy across the street to open a biker bar?

You're apparently pretending that being a member of a community does not involve a trade of property rights against community interests. Both sets of concerns are legitimate.

And that I have no right to complain if Joe next door decides to turn his house into a brothel, and the guy across the street to open a biker bar?

Clearly you have a right to complain but you may or may not have a right to have the state take action against these people. If prostitution is illegal in your state then the state may enforce that law. If, however, Joe next door's wife and daughters decide they wish to entertain a number of gentlemen in their beds without charging the effect on you is the same but they have done nothing wrong. Likewise the regulation of commerce may well be within the purview of the state but if a member of an outlaw motorcycle club purchases the home accross the street and has his outlaw cronnies visting often there is nothing you could or should be able to do about it. Likewise if he wishes to paint swastika's on his own front door, errect a flagpole or a cross in his front yard you will without some very specific deed restrictions be SOL. I note that in order to be enforceable in civil courts these deed resrictions must be within state policy thus even though a deed restriction may mandate occupation only by caucaisons that would be unenforceable.

No one was trying to open a biker bar or a brothel ... the old man's house needed some paint and repairs, but he was living alone and not causing any degradation to the quality of life in the neighborhood by bringing in an unwelcome element. According to you, the quality of upkeep on someones house is enough to have the courts and police involved. Apparently, compassion and understanding are not a part of your community.

You're apparently pretending that being a member of a community does not involve a trade of property rights against community interests. No pretense about that statement. If you want to live in a "community", that "community" has every right to do whatever the hell it collectively decides. Unfortunately for the "community" types, we live in a Constitutional Republic, with specific rights, unabridgable by the state or "community" (oxymoron if I've ever seen one). No where in our Constitution, is there a right to property "value", not to be mis-construed as property "rights". The right to own does not imply the right to profit. Sorry! Blackbird.

If you want to increase the value of your land by having nice neighboring properties, perhaps you should buy those properties and fix them up.

You PISSANT "it affects my property value" types make me sick to my F'ing stomach! What makes you think for an instant that you are ENTITLED to any value that a "good neighbour's" proximity might add to your property? If a bad neighbor is dragging your property price down, you think he should have to pay the difference. However, if good neigbour is inflating your price, you should be entitled to keep the increase without sharing in the cost of his property. You thieving commie scumbag.