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1. mara says:

   June 29, 2015 at 17:27

   We live in a “leafy” suburb in an old but quite suitable house which, though being on a half site, has a private and sunny back yard. The problem is that the old lady next door has a single, modest house on 850 sq metres. She will have to sell soon and we are most uneasy as to who will buy the land and what will be built on it. Her old house will be removed overnight and how many units will then loom over our backyard and who will inhabit them? Fuck knows but I have a bad feeling about this. Why does this make NIMBYs?
   • KG says:

     June 29, 2015 at 17:43

     Why? Because in these times changes seem to be almost always for the worse, Mara.
   • nominto says:

     June 29, 2015 at 23:47

     it happened to me ..
     had an award winning landscaped back yard /totally renovated house.
     then – 2 x 2 stories units slapped in the neighbours yard
     lost all the privacy
     then the rental hooligans moved in
     my dogs hassled all day long – then I got a visit from animal control with complaints
     parting gift – got burgled
     yeh – never got round to torching the assholes.
     • nominto says:

       June 29, 2015 at 23:54

       ps: sorry Mara don’t mean to be downer – may work out AOK.
     • G P says:

       June 30, 2015 at 21:17

       Were you not able to object?

       Cross-leasing is the worst thing ever and I believe the North Shore has quite a lot and it is a ticking time bomb. Having being in that unhappy position once – never again.

       Everyone needs their little patch unless they love apartment living and given these shaky isles you can’t go too high, never mind fire.

       Last year were saw a beautiful bungalow in very good condition that had not been hacked to death but the killer was that two dingo-ugly units had been thrown up in the 70s to give a 1/3 share. It took over a year for the owner to sell the place. Had it been left as a stand-alone dwelling he could have named his price.
       • nominto says:

         July 1, 2015 at 00:02

         they changed the zoning virtually overnight [and yes – I did the cost analysis of doing the same – numbers didn’t work for my one- house position,etc]
         I had no idea the neighbour was selling [no for sale signs] – she was an in debt gambler and I figured she answered an advert for someone wanting land.
         found out when the bulldozer and builders turned up one morning
         – 3 months later – shithead tenants.
         the real doozy when I decided to sell -was the first open home…bang on opening the gates to welcome home hunters; the sods next door cranked their stereo to “11”- buyers spun on their heels and were gone…eventually sold it in one of the worst falling markets of that time but did buy quickly again – this time no neighbours [or ones not close enough to be a problem].
         lucky in one way – the block of private units one over from me, got the worst of it [east facing small back lawns now overshadowed from these 2 story units] – they were quite pissed off because their block had covenants making them owner occupied only [or something like that] – in fact all of our stretch of street was owner occupied.
2. Ronbo says:

   June 29, 2015 at 22:46

   Secession in America: The Sioux Indians denounce all their treaties with the USA and declare independence:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Lakotah

   This happened back in 2007 and no word yet on when the 2,000 Sioux will go on the warpath against the 10 or 20 million non-Indians in their “nation.”