The Houses Built to Ruin Lives | Tales From the Bottle

It takes a lot of time and money to be this petty, but that's no problem for the people who build "spite houses". "A spite house is a building constructed or substantially modified to irritate neighbors or any party with land stakes. Because long-term occupation is not the primary purpose of these houses, they frequently exhibit strange and impractical structures. Spite houses may deliberately obstruct light, block access to neighboring buildings, or be flagrant symbols of defiance. Spite house are a particularly local kind of hostile architecture meant to annoy/irritate a particular person. Although, in the US, homeowners generally have no right to views, light, or air, neighbors can sue for a negative easement. In instances regarding a spite build, courts are far more likely to side with the neighboring parties which may have been affected by that build. For example, the Coty v. Ramsey Associates, Inc. case of 1988 ruled that the defendant's spite farm constituted a nuisance, granting the neighboring landowner a negative easement. Spite houses, as well as spite farms, are considerably rarer than spite fences. This is partially because modern building codes often prevent the construction of houses likely to impinge on neighbors' views or privacy, but mostly because fence construction is far cheaper, quicker, and easier than building construction. There are also similar structures known as spite walls or blinder walls." More on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spite_h... Join membership:    / @qxir   Second Channel:    / @qxir2   Merch: https://qxir.creator-spring.com/ Patreon:   / qxir   Twitter:   / qxiryt   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?... Instagram:   / qxiryt   Tiktok:   / qxiryt   Discord:   / discord   Twitch:   / qxiryt   Subreddit:   / qxir