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By: ThayerAvenue.com » Monday Potpourri

ThayerAvenue.com » Monday Potpourri — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:07:05 +0000

[...] know how many people are living here, send me some scoop. You may remember this place from an early post/rant. Yes, the fence still looks like [...]

By: Oldie

Oldie — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:08:14 +0000

I am so glad to find this blog! That house on the corner of Thayer and Houston aggrivates me daily! I have been living here long enough to remember when the house was nice. I watched it go up for sale a few years ago, and then I remember watching that tacky backward fence go up… all the while thinking “What are these people DOING?” I have also seen the NUMEROUS people that seem to live or frequent that house. The other day, I noticed some of the siding falling off from the windows upstairs, and the windows borded up downstairs. What are they doing in there that they have that fence AND they’ve boarded up the windows? geeze.
Did you also notice the “driveway” in the back (when the fence is open, next to the “beware of dog” sign) that goes the entire length of the yard?
It’s all very shady.

I often wonder what the previous owner would think if he/she were to see what’s become of their old home. What a shame. It is a true eyesore.

p.s. Excellent X-Files reference! However, I’ll take a set of spookey rules over spookey-looking houses! (haha! Joking).

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 18 May 2007 01:40:14 +0000

Is that the one that’s been under construction forever and used to have the high pointy roof? I used to live on Dennis and we’d see one as we went through the neighborhood. I’d have slapped an injunction on them.

Must investigate the rampant fence abuse in the neighborhood…

By: firejimbowden

firejimbowden — Thu, 17 May 2007 19:45:40 +0000

If anyone’s looking for an example of a completely god-awful fill-in house project, check out the ongoing project at McMillan and Holman, near Forest Glen. I’ve been meaning to take a picture and circulate it for quite some time.

And I may be wrong, but doesn’t the house on the southwest corner of 16th St and Second Ave also have a bass-ackwards fence with a “Beware of Dog” sign?

By: Sligo

Sligo — Wed, 16 May 2007 18:40:16 +0000

Little pink houses for you and me…

There’s dark purple house on Carrol Avenue in Takoma.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Thu, 10 May 2007 14:58:54 +0000

I know this is bad and I don’t have to gaze at it unless I come to visit my children and grandchildren. You should see what I have to put up with in the upper middle class neighborhood that I live in. There is a PINK house! I have seen a backwards fence before but not in the city limits of any city. There’s got to be a rule against tacky!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:46:06 +0000

As for new monster houses that blot out the sun, I have a bad feeling that one of those is brewing near me, down near the end of Easley St. Go take a look sometime at the newly laid foundation. That thing’s going to be HUGE.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:02:20 +0000

Whenever I hear about neighborhood restrictions, I think of the X-Files episode where Mulder and Scully posed as a couple in a neighborhood with a Nazi-like homeowners association rules. And that's never any good. I suppose you're right. There were houses in our old neighborhood near Dennis Ave that defied the laws of physics (and the County) with what they were building. I think part of my issue is that it's difficult to foster a community atmosphere when people cordon themselves off like that.

By: David

David — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:40:15 +0000

I agree, the property is tacky, especially since the house itself has a lot of charm but has been marred by all of the god-awful trappings.

On the other hand, I prefer to live on a street where property owners are free to make bad aesthetic choices (in my judgement) than in one of those communities where eveeryone has to abide by these silly codes for what shade of color you can paint the exterior of your house and what shape your mail box can be. I’ll take tacky over little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and I don’t think that these type of aesthetic blemishes are bringing down neighborhood property values.

What I do consider worth fighting over is infill development that is out of character with the surrounding properties (ie, owners that tear down older houses and build enormous new ones that tower over the neighboring houses). There is a widespread debate over this type of development and I think the county is considering some added restrictions for the height and footprint of these new houses, but I don’t know the details.

By: Anonymous Neighbor

Anonymous Neighbor — Wed, 09 May 2007 13:34:55 +0000

Maybe the fence is because they were tired of looking at the Marine Corps flag across the street.

These folks are so gonna egg the pimp sled.