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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSpite houses
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/9-amazing-houses-built-purely-out-of-spite-%E2%80%93-and-the-nasty-feuds-behind-them/ar-BBF3hxC?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignoutEver noticed a house that looked just a little too tall, small or close to its neighbor? You may have just spotted a spite house.
Built specifically to annoy or upset others, the spite houses that dot the U.S. are lasting monuments to everything from family feuds to zoning disagreements.
Spite houses are not built to be practical. Rather, the homes were designed for a range of purposes from warding away loiterers to making a neighbors existence miserable.
Here are 9 of the most bitter houses ever constructed in the U.S.
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Spite houses (Original Post)
mfcorey1
Nov 2017
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marybourg
(12,650 posts)1. Click bait? nt
MLAA
(17,375 posts)2. Could be, but I admit I enjoyed reading it a nice reSpite from news about IMpotus and repugs 😉
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)4. Thanks. That is exactly what it was meant for... a break from the
chaos of the current administration. Click bait? No!
MLAA
(17,375 posts)5. Thanks for sharing we all need a little mental break from time to time 🙂
nolabear
(42,007 posts)3. I drive by the Seattle one all the time.
Its the yellow one at the top of the article. It went up for sale a couple of years ago but Im not sure whether it sold. Frankly you can get half a million for a tent here these days.