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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 08:39 PM Nov 2017

Spite 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=mailsignout

Ever 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 neighbor’s existence miserable.

Here are 9 of the most bitter houses ever constructed in the U.S.
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MLAA

(17,375 posts)
2. Could be, but I admit I enjoyed reading it a nice reSpite from news about IMpotus and repugs 😉
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 08:55 PM
Nov 2017

mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
4. Thanks. That is exactly what it was meant for... a break from the
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 09:12 PM
Nov 2017

chaos of the current administration. Click bait? No!

nolabear

(42,007 posts)
3. I drive by the Seattle one all the time.
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 08:59 PM
Nov 2017

It’s the yellow one at the top of the article. It went up for sale a couple of years ago but I’m not sure whether it sold. Frankly you can get half a million for a tent here these days.

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