2:54 my jaw actually dropped and my mind has been blown!! She ACTUALLY built a massive, skyscraper middle finger in front of their home! Nothing can beat that. She wins
There are actually two "spite houses" I know of involving my rich sister. One is not exactly a house but a warehouse next to my uncle's house. The two are bitter enemies so when my uncle had his illegally gotten house built beside our family's warehouse, my sister added a second floor to it to block the view on the side. Also, she used the warehouse as a storehouse for expired/expiring goods so that mice, rats and cockroaches lived there in huge numbers and even migrate into my uncle's house. The other spite house was already built between a business rival's house and her property. You see, the rival has a rectangular property next to her corner store. In that lot lives a poor family in their rectangular house. Through some cunning, she was able to buy the other half of the lot (the driveway/parking lot), leaving the rectangular house in between her two properties. She was so confident that no one will be interested in buying the skinny rectangular lot in the middle of her properties that she decided to wait until the poor family decides to sell their property at a much lower price. But she crossed paths with my sister and got her mad enough to seek revenge for it. Upon hearing the predicament of the poor family, she sent an intermediary and offered to buy their lot for a princely sum. The poor family quickly and gleefully agreed to the offer, thankful to be given the chance to give a big eff-you to the neighbor who's been harassing them for years. Before their hated neighbor got wind of it, the property was already sold to my sister. My sister quickly put up the property for a business lease and awarded it to a noisy maker of steel and iron grills. The smoke and noise it produces annoy the hell out of its neighboring establishment to this day.
I sorta live in a Spite house. The former owners of my house painted it this really bright blue color and it stands out from all the other homes on the street.. the thing is I would of been happy to paint the home until I met my neighbors..they are lawyers from New York and come down to my area like 1 month out of the whole year and every time they show up they act as if they own the whole neighborhood writing loads of complaints to the HOA with claims that someone's home is not in compliance ect ect, threatening lawsuits and so fourth..so when I discovered that the reason the previous owner of this home did so in spite of these people I felt I needed to carry this legacy.. (I have also spoken with our HOA and the thing is this bright blue color is considered an appropriate color 😉)
A slight update, other people in my neighborhood decided that in spite of the demands from these lawyers they decided to paint their homes fun beach colors, some going with the same shade of blue as mine, others a green..so now the only house on the block out of color scene is the lawyers house being a dark gloomy grey
Gosh I hate restrictive HOA policies... I'm glad we left such neighborhood atleast our new place is better. As long as you stay in your property, don't bother your neighbors and destroy public spaces you can do whatever renovations or activities you want
@@everydayiseveryday4529 tbh it depends where you want to live, you can't simply buy a plot/house in Paris for example and build something that doesn't fit in, there have to be regulations, but HOAs are a joke
In our little town, Waynesboro Pa, a couple owned an Advanced Auto and got a divorce. Out of spite, the wife bought the lot next to the business and opened up an Autozone, then promptly hired most of the better employees.
That is nothing. I had a business trip to a customer installation. I couldn't find their phone number on the internet so I called their HQ. The customer service tried to help me, but couldn't find the dept in their system, nor any of the local employees in the registry. "Are you sure this is ours?" "Well, if this plant worth over $100 000 000 ain't yours, can I just claim it? I'll even take down your logos for free and send to you...."
The giant concrete middle finger was awesome! That's one serious woman, what dude was a moron for listening to his family. That broad was the real deal, and self-made!
Considering how bad my ex wife screwed me in our divorce and continues to this day, I found great joy in that replica house built in the middle of nowhere.
They always do, it's there way of feeling superior. And making sure you never have a good relationship after. Which is a form of mental abuse and torture. I've never had a wife thank God, my mother was abusive, physically an emotionally. My teacher had an interview with her once in second grade, offered to adopt me. Should of jumped at that chance.
I'm a woman and what happened to me is the other way around, LoL. I'm the breadwinner of our very small family (we have no kids) and have at least two business/jobs at the same time, while my ex is jobless most of the times. I divorced him 4 years ago (he cheated with my best friend 😫) yet he's still jobless and have a lot of debts and living with his parents. I've already rebuilt my bankrupt pizzeria/bakery shop and published 3 science books (the fourth is on the way) since then. The divorce actually sets me free, I can follow my own dreams and plans now. I'm now living a modest and peaceful life in the suburbs area (he prefers the big city) in my own paid-in-cash home. I don't hold a grudge, I still help him paying for stuffs now and then (I have no obligation to do that, I just did it because I loved the guy for the 12 years that we're together and I still cherish him as a good friend). I never want to get married again tho, thank you very much. 🤣 Pardon the neverending edits, English is not my first language, and I love writing...
@@jeremydickman9464 I have an abusive mom (both physical and verbal) too. But I've learned to forgive her. She's now old and sick and living with me. She's still verbally abusive, but now I can accept that it was just her original character. I actually learned not to be the same abusive person to anybody FROM HER EXAMPLE. 😊
@@LadyVoldemort I forgave mine a long time ago, she an my father both know, they the states problem not mine. It's annoying trying to find a good woman, when you have to think about if what they saying or doing has an ulterior motive.
People, especially “Gentlemen” had a more eloquent way of dealing with dishonesty. They relied on their knowledge instead of their fists. .....for the most part. 😉 They did fight. With their fists. And no cheating. But SERIOUS matters were handled with a Duel 🤵🔫🤵🏻🔫 (to the death) Their honor meant EVERYTHING.
I have driven by the Montlake house many times, we know it as the "Spite House". We were told that it had something to do with zoning, but the neighbor theory works. In my neighborhood, there is a corner that had several small houses in a row, then a slightly bigger house on the corner, then around the corner a tiny ranch with NO yard but a strip in back and front. The last of the row had to be razed as it was beyond repair. Turns out, it had a huge lot behind the others, with a small panhandle going to the front. I wished I could buy it and give it to each of the other 5 so everybody could have a decent size yard. But it was sold and a nice large house was built using mostly the back space so now nobody has much yard. The bizarre thing is why was it all zoned like that in the first place? The corner house is from the 20's or 30's. The 4 in a row look like post-war prefab kits. (They're super cute) The ranch around the corner is from the 50's or 60's or maybe later.
My father in law was constantly harassed by his neighbor for petty things. Once a cop showed up because the neighbor complained his outside grill was causing smoke in their house. When the cops arrived, my father in law hadn't even started the grill yet! The cop asked if there was anything he wanted to complain about regarding the neighbor. He said no, but the next day he painted the side of his garage that faced directly into the neighbor's back yard, a very bright pink. The neighbor had to erect an expensive fence to block the sight of the garage.
my grandfather did something similar to this in Seattle. He had planned on biulding a long pier that widened to make a helipad. Due to an ordinance, his neighbor was able to get the city to deny the building permits. so instead my grandfater simply had large trees planted to block his neighbors view of the water. he spent thousands on those trees. No clue how much to actually had the brought and planted just to block his neighbors view.
@Candice Elizabeth but people like that make one heck of a story😂. I mean if you are a b**ch about something some one better put you in your place. I am not trying to be mean just saying, sorry if I offended you😣.
1973 our neighbor liked to throw rocks at the kids and dogs in the neighborhood. One rock hit my friend's puppy and injured it. We couldn't prove it so he was not arrested. Se we painted "PUPPY KILLER!" on the front of his house when he was away. The police came and of course we got in trouble and had to go to court. The judge ordered us (age 10-14) to repaint the whole outside of the house. The just did not specify color or pattern. We obeyed the judge's order to the T. The house spent over a decade with dozens of pink and purple cartoon puppies with a yellow background all over it. We sent photos to the judge who wrote back informing us that we had fulfilled the terms of the court order along with a photo of himself with his own pet puppy, a yellow lab.
4:17 As a house painter, my first thought was: How on Earth do they maintain the sides that are 12 inches apart? I’m sure it didn’t take long before moisture trapped in there started to rot the siding and trim on both houses. How would you do repairs and paint in there?
These days the government would waste resources to get involved in people’s petty fights and tell them what they can or can not do with their private property.
In my small town, a man owns a nice house on a hill across the street from a pretty lake. Someone wanted to buy the land directly in front of the lake, but the man in the nice house petitioned and fought to not allow a residential building to ruin the view and some other bullsh*t his lawyers worked up. (I don’t really know much about the case) He won, and the guy wasn’t allowed to build his house there. He still bought the land, though, and found a loophole that allowed him to put a business on the land. He built really ugly storage containers for a self-storage facility so he could actually ruin the view. They’ve been there for about 15 years now!
Scary stuff. I've decided that if anyone spoiled my property on purpose, I would move out and donate it to the homeless, or make it a half way house for criminals who have done time.
what do you mean? There is nothing about the stories that say the revenge wasn't served "cold," which of coursed means after time has passed and is less hot-headed---usually more calculated and masterful. These houses are all the ultimate cold revenge!
I have a strong feeling the wife was not well taken care and she felt used for her to demand a house just like the one she was coming from to be built for her! However, she had a simple and a small mind else, she would have specified where she wanted the house. I have a strong feeling she was a simple woman who silently bore all dished to her until she could take no more.
@Suki Yaki I try. Next door neighbor fined twice for his loud dog. Here it is "stay home" orders, & the jerk has left to leave his dog barking out the open front room window the whole time they are gone. People can only take so much stupidness. He also goes around & trashes me, talking to all the nearby neighbors. A real loser.
My family had some legal issues with the people we bought our property from 15 years prior. They claimed that they still owned the waterfront (seeing as we live on a river) and after going through court, their case was denied because the local government owned the land. To get revenge, my dad hung a 15 foot long sign that said, “WATERFRONT” for upwards of 3 months, right where anyone driving by on the main road in town would see.
I see no issue with being vindictive, as long as you cause no physical harm. I nurture each and everyone of my grudges with a lot of care and tenderness. It makes life very interesting.😎😎😎
mmmm I don't know how badly you nurse these grudges. I get not forgiving someone and not associating with them. But nursing a grudge sounds much more deliberate and focused negative energy. Grudges aren't healthy.
One time I built a large wooden house on a hill in Minecraft and my friend's sister burned it to build her own house. She loved the way the nearby mountain looked. I built a fortress on and in that mountain, and when she told my friend what happened he told his mom and she grounded her for terrorism. LOL Edit: I made this up stop liking this
Sounds like my spiteful days of playing The Sims 2 and 3. For some reason, the members of this weird old family in the town were very rude to my characters. Like they would come in my house and help themselves to whatever and laugh at their misfortunes (e.g.: when a character was learning to invent/upgrade things and accidentally electrocuted themselves or were sculpting and the whole block they'd painstakingly chiseled burst into pieces and they had to start again from scratch). So I bought their home (or maybe just moved in while "merging" the families...it's been a really long time so I don't remember exactly) and then I sent one into a room where I put something to block the door and they died of starvation after peeing on the floor/in their pants. Another was in a pool and I deleted the ladder (this was a version in which a ladder was required to exit the pool) and they swam until exhaustion took over and they died. I want to say there was another family member whom I put in a small building separate from the actual house and it contained only a couple of fireplaces and rugs directly in front of the fireplaces (a fire hazard). I then removed the door and when the rugs caught fire they couldn't escape. I was a kid/teenager though and we all did weird things at that age. 🤷🏻♀️
Siblings fight : -1st sibling : FU im going to make a large house and get most of the land our father left us ! -2nd sibling : hold my architect and construction workers
My husband dreamed up a new paint colour and combo for our house in Florida, which the local paint store was not suppose to mix for anyone else. Naturally, they did and a year later, four houses on that short street looked just like ours. He painted our house black for revenge. It certainly upset the neighbous. We had quite a lot of parties back in the late 60's and 70's, we never had a problem with friends finding our house, for sure. There was only five houses there.That is a true story.
Born & raised in nearby town to the "Pink" house. It is still wrapped in controversy. Due to it's poor condition, located in a marsh and what was not mentioned in the video, it is at the end of the runway of a local municipal airport there was a movement to tear it down. Since it is a landmark there has been a big local $ drive to save it. It's still there in tough shape. It's on the only road out to the island. Kind of blew my mind to see it on here.
I bet the entire thing balances on pure rot. Stick someone in there can barely fit through the door and it'll cause the entire thing to collapse in on itself. Marshland is absolutely terrible to build on.
I used to live on Plum Island for a few months (not long enough to get the story). I could never figure out why that thing was way out there... and now I know... LOL.
4:12 For a 2-storey basement with a pool, a 3-storey hole needed to be dug. The neighbors better hope their houses were properly shored during the project.
I am surprised the city didn't just build a road anyway like many of the ones that followed. Thanks to eminent domain no one really owns any property but the government.
That was very entertaining I must say. It was so hilarious and shocking at the same time. Amazing how far and petty people would go to piss someone off for sweet revenge!
Ba’sa means finger, depending on context it can mean “finger in ass” or “finger in face” “Finger in face” meaning the act of flipping someone off which I guess can be seen as “fuck you.” If you look it up all you get is info about this house for some reason though.
Them: "Do you think that any of these petty home owners are justified in their actions?" Me: the are all! Any one so dedicated to ruining another's life is amazing!
Dayton mansion, in Minnesota, is another interesting spite story. From what I remember, the house was built out of spite, across the river from his ex wife.
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Kavanagh was an Irish descendant, her ancestors come from roughly 1846 from Ireland. The name Kavanagh is an Irish surname. Nobody needed to know this but it's here anyway
And here we have a law, that forces you to build at least 3 meters away from the edge of your property, unless you have a written permission from your neighbor.
A lot of these were built in the early 1900's before stricter building and safety codes were a thing. With the exception of the London house(it's and the neighbors are made of brick) a lot of these close proximity houses are against modern fire codes. It's more for historical reasons they haven't been torn down but if a fire or other event that would cause major damages where a rebuild would be needed were to happen then they couldn't be reconstructed in the same area.
I had a friend that owned a house in Newport Beach, Ca. It was the house he grew up in and bought from his father. The property was considered to have an; ocean view, but you had to go out to the front yard to see it. OR, build a second story, which his neighbor did. My friends house was on the opposite side of his neighbors ocean view, which made any biilding for an ocean view impossible, not to mention now his neighbor could look right down into his yard eliminating any backyard privacy. So needless to say he was pissed about it. Bamboo is a tree that grows pretty fast. And as skinny as it is, it puts out a lot of leaves. So he gave me a job planting bamboo in his backyard. The trees were delivered one afternoon, I had the holes pre dug and waiting. So the day after they were delivered, they were planted. Side by side, right along the fence that was now useless. The funny thing was his nieghbor never even knew about them until one morning he started seeing something growing up in front of his sunrise windows. I wish I was there to see the look on his face when he realized his sunrise windows soon couldnt see diddly squat. No sun, no view. Just bamboo leaves.
My husbands ex wife wanted to take everything from him even though he said she could keep half the house and everything in it. He represented himself and wrote all the letters to her solicitor. (Using online solicitors letters) he never paid a penny on legal anything. He dragged out the divorce proceeding so she had to keep paying for the letters sent. (£40 a letter and he had sent around 100 letters which her solicitor had to reply to. She asked for his harley but he had given it to a friend to look after. When it all went to court they had to sell the house and split the money and she came off with practically nothing and what she had was gone in no time.
I know mine but most just the first two houses in each direction and those across the street. The rest I just know by name from the HOA documents since I am the president.
When railroad magnate, E H Harriman, wanted to move into the upscale, closed and gated community of Tuxedo Park, NY, he was met with opposition. Tuxedo Park had been referred to as the Beverly Hills of the east. He was "new money" and the town that invented the formal Tuxedo smoking jacket wanted nothing to do with him. Even though he was one of the richest men in the entire world, he was still considered an outcast. EH Harriman did get his revenge. He deciding to buy the entire mountain ridge that was adjacent to Tuxedo. EH Harriman purchased various land parcels and eventually acquired 40,000 acres for the grounds of his estate. To access the ridge, a custom railroad engine was built that grabbed the railroad ties themselves to pull itself up the steep grade. On the ridge-top he built his 100,000 square foot home so he could look down on all the people in Tuxedo Park and they would have to look up to him. He even ordered the builders to design and build the home so that when he was on his royal throne (toilet) he would not only look down on Tuxedo when having a poo, he would also 'flush' in their direction. Revenge!
The town is Alameda. Not Almeida. It’s on the San Francisco Bay, west of Oakland, wast Of San Francisco. I know the spite house well, Alameda is my Home town, it’s an Alameda Legend.
Al baa'sa house was built because one brother stole the majority of the land inherited from their father and left this small part to his brother knowing the land should have been shared equally. and that's why the losing brother built Al Baa'sa.
@Peter Evans typical colonizer antics. Personalizing someone else's culture & language, just to meet their own greedy, insignificant, egotistical needs.
99 problems and a neighbour is one.
yes lol
I was shocked that your comment didnt get a lotta likes
Lol
I Like the vid
neighbors is 98
2:54 my jaw actually dropped and my mind has been blown!! She ACTUALLY built a massive, skyscraper middle finger in front of their home! Nothing can beat that. She wins
Yes considering it was tallest building in the country for many years 😆
She is a boss!😃👍🏼
@@gametime_1236 Tallest in the continent.
Good for her, lol!! Yes, I quite enjoyed that bit, too, lol!
It wouldn't look out of place in Central Park.
There are actually two "spite houses" I know of involving my rich sister. One is not exactly a house but a warehouse next to my uncle's house. The two are bitter enemies so when my uncle had his illegally gotten house built beside our family's warehouse, my sister added a second floor to it to block the view on the side. Also, she used the warehouse as a storehouse for expired/expiring goods so that mice, rats and cockroaches lived there in huge numbers and even migrate into my uncle's house.
The other spite house was already built between a business rival's house and her property. You see, the rival has a rectangular property next to her corner store. In that lot lives a poor family in their rectangular house. Through some cunning, she was able to buy the other half of the lot (the driveway/parking lot), leaving the rectangular house in between her two properties. She was so confident that no one will be interested in buying the skinny rectangular lot in the middle of her properties that she decided to wait until the poor family decides to sell their property at a much lower price.
But she crossed paths with my sister and got her mad enough to seek revenge for it. Upon hearing the predicament of the poor family, she sent an intermediary and offered to buy their lot for a princely sum. The poor family quickly and gleefully agreed to the offer, thankful to be given the chance to give a big eff-you to the neighbor who's been harassing them for years.
Before their hated neighbor got wind of it, the property was already sold to my sister. My sister quickly put up the property for a business lease and awarded it to a noisy maker of steel and iron grills. The smoke and noise it produces annoy the hell out of its neighboring establishment to this day.
Your sister is evil, but clearly a genius! 😂
That sounds like the devil at play he only comes to steal kill and destroy sad because family is all we have and most people let the enemy destroy it
@@Ms.Usseryig the whore of Babylon ain't so bad after all
1925 seems like a rough year for spiteful real estate. The roaring 20's gave people more money than they knew what to do with it.
lack of access to alcohol
@@richardh8082 lol
Counterpoint: They knew exactly what to do with their money.
I sorta live in a Spite house.
The former owners of my house painted it this really bright blue color and it stands out from all the other homes on the street.. the thing is I would of been happy to paint the home until I met my neighbors..they are lawyers from New York and come down to my area like 1 month out of the whole year and every time they show up they act as if they own the whole neighborhood writing loads of complaints to the HOA with claims that someone's home is not in compliance ect ect, threatening lawsuits and so fourth..so when I discovered that the reason the previous owner of this home did so in spite of these people I felt I needed to carry this legacy.. (I have also spoken with our HOA and the thing is this bright blue color is considered an appropriate color 😉)
A slight update, other people in my neighborhood decided that in spite of the demands from these lawyers they decided to paint their homes fun beach colors, some going with the same shade of blue as mine, others a green..so now the only house on the block out of color scene is the lawyers house being a dark gloomy grey
how satisfying!
@@Tally2727 Awesome!!! Your story, especially the update, really made me feel good inside... I love it when the bad guys lose! Lol! 🤗🤗🤗
Gosh I hate restrictive HOA policies... I'm glad we left such neighborhood atleast our new place is better. As long as you stay in your property, don't bother your neighbors and destroy public spaces you can do whatever renovations or activities you want
@@everydayiseveryday4529 tbh it depends where you want to live, you can't simply buy a plot/house in Paris for example and build something that doesn't fit in, there have to be regulations, but HOAs are a joke
In our little town, Waynesboro Pa, a couple owned an Advanced Auto and got a divorce. Out of spite, the wife bought the lot next to the business and opened up an Autozone, then promptly hired most of the better employees.
........lol...........
OOF I-
You got the last laugh though... cuz, she gets to see your mug every day lol
And most people would much rather go to autozone if it's just as convenient. Well played 😂
imagine having enough money to build a grudge house
That is nothing. I had a business trip to a customer installation. I couldn't find their phone number on the internet so I called their HQ. The customer service tried to help me, but couldn't find the dept in their system, nor any of the local employees in the registry.
"Are you sure this is ours?"
"Well, if this plant worth over $100 000 000 ain't yours, can I just claim it? I'll even take down your logos for free and send to you...."
insert maniacal laughter
Imagine having that money During 1920s depression.
A strong argument against wealth redistribution 😆
@@RT-fb6ty The Depression was 1929 to 1933. The 1920s were called the roaring 20s because everyone seemingly had money
Damn, they had a lot problems in the 1900’s
Al-Hassam Games got sht done tho 🤷♀️
I am a lesbian
Rich people problems
Bathe and relax in my shit Ok?
Shan Shan True
I just want to imagine what the builders thought about some of these buildings
Builder: "Ha, ha. I am still getting paid right?"
money money money
"Yeah, i can put my kid through another year or 2 of school.
Yeah
@@LambentLark ?
The giant concrete middle finger was awesome! That's one serious woman, what dude was a moron for listening to his family. That broad was the real deal, and self-made!
"Before seeking revenge, dig two graves"
'or three if you have three enemies :)' cuz I ain't dying
And push your enemies in them and bulldoze it.
There is much wisdom to be found in the words of others.
@@_zet_zet_ lmfao
If it means getting suitable revenge on my now ex-husband, then so be it. I'll die a happy woman.
Rich people revenge: Build beautiful houses.
Me: Praying my enemy to die.
Did it work tho?
Me having no.enemy ... Happy me
😱
I would never wish death on someone I used to love, that's messed up.
I’m pretty sure that’s against the will God.
Considering how bad my ex wife screwed me in our divorce and continues to this day, I found great joy in that replica house built in the middle of nowhere.
They always do, it's there way of feeling superior. And making sure you never have a good relationship after. Which is a form of mental abuse and torture. I've never had a wife thank God, my mother was abusive, physically an emotionally. My teacher had an interview with her once in second grade, offered to adopt me. Should of jumped at that chance.
I'm a woman and what happened to me is the other way around, LoL. I'm the breadwinner of our very small family (we have no kids) and have at least two business/jobs at the same time, while my ex is jobless most of the times. I divorced him 4 years ago (he cheated with my best friend 😫) yet he's still jobless and have a lot of debts and living with his parents.
I've already rebuilt my bankrupt pizzeria/bakery shop and published 3 science books (the fourth is on the way) since then. The divorce actually sets me free, I can follow my own dreams and plans now. I'm now living a modest and peaceful life in the suburbs area (he prefers the big city) in my own paid-in-cash home. I don't hold a grudge, I still help him paying for stuffs now and then (I have no obligation to do that, I just did it because I loved the guy for the 12 years that we're together and I still cherish him as a good friend). I never want to get married again tho, thank you very much. 🤣
Pardon the neverending edits, English is not my first language, and I love writing...
@@jeremydickman9464
I have an abusive mom (both physical and verbal) too. But I've learned to forgive her. She's now old and sick and living with me. She's still verbally abusive, but now I can accept that it was just her original character. I actually learned not to be the same abusive person to anybody FROM HER EXAMPLE. 😊
@@LadyVoldemort I forgave mine a long time ago, she an my father both know, they the states problem not mine. It's annoying trying to find a good woman, when you have to think about if what they saying or doing has an ulterior motive.
It’s Newburyport by the way not newport
A lot of things happened in 1925
Like 2020
dude you're everywhere
I know!! I said again! Damn!🤣🤣
People, especially “Gentlemen” had a more eloquent way of dealing with dishonesty.
They relied on their knowledge instead of their fists. .....for the most part. 😉
They did fight. With their fists. And no cheating.
But SERIOUS matters were handled with a Duel 🤵🔫🤵🏻🔫 (to the death)
Their honor meant EVERYTHING.
Must've been a good year. Lol
I have driven by the Montlake house many times, we know it as the "Spite House". We were told that it had something to do with zoning, but the neighbor theory works. In my neighborhood, there is a corner that had several small houses in a row, then a slightly bigger house on the corner, then around the corner a tiny ranch with NO yard but a strip in back and front. The last of the row had to be razed as it was beyond repair. Turns out, it had a huge lot behind the others, with a small panhandle going to the front. I wished I could buy it and give it to each of the other 5 so everybody could have a decent size yard. But it was sold and a nice large house was built using mostly the back space so now nobody has much yard. The bizarre thing is why was it all zoned like that in the first place? The corner house is from the 20's or 30's. The 4 in a row look like post-war prefab kits. (They're super cute) The ranch around the corner is from the 50's or 60's or maybe later.
My father in law was constantly harassed by his neighbor for petty things. Once a cop showed up because the neighbor complained his outside grill was causing smoke in their house. When the cops arrived, my father in law hadn't even started the grill yet! The cop asked if there was anything he wanted to complain about regarding the neighbor. He said no, but the next day he painted the side of his garage that faced directly into the neighbor's back yard, a very bright pink. The neighbor had to erect an expensive fence to block the sight of the garage.
That middle Finger Building Tho....
😂🤣😂😂
I know you
Factsssss
Bathe and relax in my shit
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@@Truckspotter. I am a lesbian
Is it just me or when houses are built out of hatred, the houses seem better???
Passion Projects tend to be better quality, even if it's a vengeful passion.
right? the Pie House look kind of cool to me.
It is because they did it in a very artistic way.
Agreed. I think all these are epic and justified.
With the exception of the house built on marsh land.
my grandfather did something similar to this in Seattle. He had planned on biulding a long pier that widened to make a helipad. Due to an ordinance, his neighbor was able to get the city to deny the building permits. so instead my grandfater simply had large trees planted to block his neighbors view of the water. he spent thousands on those trees. No clue how much to actually had the brought and planted just to block his neighbors view.
So He Can Laugh At The Neighbor Trying See And Say Money Can Grow On Trees🌲🌲🌲🌲$$$$🏡🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😁
@@AKingZWldAQu33nZUnVZ lol
Sweet revenge
@Candice Elizabeth but people like that make one heck of a story😂. I mean if you are a b**ch about something some one better put you in your place. I am not trying to be mean just saying, sorry if I offended you😣.
AKingZWldAQu33nZUnVZ
Why😲 do you😏 have to😉 put so many 😐 emojis 😉
1973 our neighbor liked to throw rocks at the kids and dogs in the neighborhood. One rock hit my friend's puppy and injured it. We couldn't prove it so he was not arrested. Se we painted "PUPPY KILLER!" on the front of his house when he was away. The police came and of course we got in trouble and had to go to court. The judge ordered us (age 10-14) to repaint the whole outside of the house. The just did not specify color or pattern. We obeyed the judge's order to the T. The house spent over a decade with dozens of pink and purple cartoon puppies with a yellow background all over it. We sent photos to the judge who wrote back informing us that we had fulfilled the terms of the court order along with a photo of himself with his own pet puppy, a yellow lab.
love this one :)
4:17 As a house painter, my first thought was: How on Earth do they maintain the sides that are 12 inches apart? I’m sure it didn’t take long before moisture trapped in there started to rot the siding and trim on both houses. How would you do repairs and paint in there?
Spoken like a knowledgeable Professional…
Things that nobody else would ever think of‼️
At 11:18 , "AL BA'SA" literally translates to "The middle finger", not the grudge :P [i'm from Lebanon, and the term is from our urban dialect]
Ba3sa 😅
That's even funnier.
also, it's not an ocean, it's the Mediterranean sea.
@@savasorama ?
@@LambentLark Ocean or Sea. What don't you understand. Why the question mark?
That first house was really pretty despite of the location
Ye 🍇
It’s a really beautiful area right down the road from the house
I live really close to that house and have gone past it probably hundreds of times! It's cool to know the history behind it.
i would love to live in the middle of nowhere.
@@cedarthetree76 except that's not the true history of it. Just a myth.
Love it. I have always fully subscribed to the old adage, "Don't get mad, get even".
These days the government would waste resources to get involved in people’s petty fights and tell them what they can or can not do with their private property.
Feeding humans their own medicine is an intoxicating joy
Al ba'sa doesn't mean the grudge, it means the finger, literally.
Literally you're wrong
Well according to Google Translate it means "The miserable"
@@ShawnO3258 considering your name is shawn and her name is rania AND im lebanese i can say the one whos wrong here is u love
@@ShawnO3258 that's not what other Lebanese in the discussion thread are saying.
@@ShawnO3258
Literally, you are still embarrassing yourself a month later...
In my small town, a man owns a nice house on a hill across the street from a pretty lake. Someone wanted to buy the land directly in front of the lake, but the man in the nice house petitioned and fought to not allow a residential building to ruin the view and some other bullsh*t his lawyers worked up. (I don’t really know much about the case) He won, and the guy wasn’t allowed to build his house there. He still bought the land, though, and found a loophole that allowed him to put a business on the land. He built really ugly storage containers for a self-storage facility so he could actually ruin the view. They’ve been there for about 15 years now!
5:03 it would be so funny if their kids become best friends/fall in love with each other
I can imagine young lovers getting into each other's rooms through the window without any fear of falling.
@@plantedlife was thinking something like that too.
K-Drama?
@LearningLife it's been a recurring theme
Scary stuff. I've decided that if anyone spoiled my property on purpose, I would move out and donate it to the homeless, or make it a half way house for criminals who have done time.
Even though many caused me to giggle, humans can be so unkind to each other.😔
I love that the miner enemy even put the stairs into his home, on the side where his neighbor's house is!!!! lmao
RIDIN’ HIGH 5150 the front door & stairs are next to the “enemy” house vs. in the middle or other side of the “spite” house.
Obviously, they never heard the saying “Revenge is a dish best served COLD”
I think it is best served hot and spicy
@Anthony Marquez when they say cold they mean unexpected. But I’ll serve my revenge hot and spicy any day.
what do you mean? There is nothing about the stories that say the revenge wasn't served "cold," which of coursed means after time has passed and is less hot-headed---usually more calculated and masterful. These houses are all the ultimate cold revenge!
@@KP-mj1yq I like the line from the anthem/song 'I am a Missile' by Dorothy: 'Vengeance is a cold thing baby, I serve it on a bed of flames ...'
More like best served tall, wide and thin.
LMFAO!!! That first one for the divorced lady was pure gold!!!!! :P Love it!
I have a strong feeling the wife was not well taken care and she felt used for her to demand a house just like the one she was coming from to be built for her!
However, she had a simple and a small mind else, she would have specified where she wanted the house.
I have a strong feeling she was a simple woman who silently bore all dished to her until she could take no more.
"It was built entirely out of spite"
😂😂😂
Title should be” pettiest homeowners who spent a fortune 100 years ago
Moral: Be nice to your neighbors.
@Suki Yaki I try. Next door neighbor fined twice for his loud dog. Here it is "stay home" orders, & the jerk has left to leave his dog barking out the open front room window the whole time they are gone. People can only take so much stupidness.
He also goes around & trashes me, talking to all the nearby neighbors. A real loser.
Moral: Some people are evil
And your siblings
other moral: Don't piss off the wives.
Moral: What is your reaction if your neighbours do evil acts to your family
Tales from times, when building codes were weak.
My family had some legal issues with the people we bought our property from 15 years prior. They claimed that they still owned the waterfront (seeing as we live on a river) and after going through court, their case was denied because the local government owned the land. To get revenge, my dad hung a 15 foot long sign that said, “WATERFRONT” for upwards of 3 months, right where anyone driving by on the main road in town would see.
I see no issue with being vindictive, as long as you cause no physical harm. I nurture each and everyone of my grudges with a lot of care and tenderness. It makes life very interesting.😎😎😎
Diana Johnson 🤣
🤣🤣🤣
mmmm I don't know how badly you nurse these grudges. I get not forgiving someone and not associating with them. But nursing a grudge sounds much more deliberate and focused negative energy. Grudges aren't healthy.
@@KP-mj1yq Everyone is different. This might not work for you but, my grudges give me incentive. 🙄
Diana Johnson we all have room to grow.
One time I built a large wooden house on a hill in Minecraft and my friend's sister burned it to build her own house. She loved the way the nearby mountain looked. I built a fortress on and in that mountain, and when she told my friend what happened he told his mom and she grounded her for terrorism. LOL
Edit: I made this up stop liking this
Once my gf who I played Minecraft with burned down my house. But the good thing is, I wanted her to do that :3
Shane Oneill r/thathappened
@Antony Rojas
That is kind of what the video is about.
you're pathetic kido
Sounds like my spiteful days of playing The Sims 2 and 3. For some reason, the members of this weird old family in the town were very rude to my characters. Like they would come in my house and help themselves to whatever and laugh at their misfortunes (e.g.: when a character was learning to invent/upgrade things and accidentally electrocuted themselves or were sculpting and the whole block they'd painstakingly chiseled burst into pieces and they had to start again from scratch). So I bought their home (or maybe just moved in while "merging" the families...it's been a really long time so I don't remember exactly) and then I sent one into a room where I put something to block the door and they died of starvation after peeing on the floor/in their pants. Another was in a pool and I deleted the ladder (this was a version in which a ladder was required to exit the pool) and they swam until exhaustion took over and they died. I want to say there was another family member whom I put in a small building separate from the actual house and it contained only a couple of fireplaces and rugs directly in front of the fireplaces (a fire hazard). I then removed the door and when the rugs caught fire they couldn't escape. I was a kid/teenager though and we all did weird things at that age. 🤷🏻♀️
This dislikes are from the people who suffered from these
Or... The false info given. 👎
Siblings fight :
-1st sibling : FU im going to make a large house and get most of the land our father left us !
-2nd sibling : hold my architect and construction workers
pathetic.Why do you think your comment was funny?Definitely wasnt
@@krisamagus1 lmao
My husband dreamed up a new paint colour and combo for our house in Florida, which the local paint store was not suppose to mix for anyone else. Naturally, they did and a year later, four houses on that short street looked just like ours. He painted our house black for revenge. It certainly upset the neighbous. We had quite a lot of parties back in the late 60's and 70's, we never had a problem with friends finding our house, for sure. There was only five houses there.That is a true story.
Born & raised in nearby town to the "Pink" house. It is still wrapped in controversy. Due to it's poor condition, located in a marsh and what was not mentioned in the video, it is at the end of the runway of a local municipal airport there was a movement to tear it down. Since it is a landmark there has been a big local $ drive to save it. It's still there in tough shape. It's on the only road out to the island. Kind of blew my mind to see it on here.
I bet the entire thing balances on pure rot. Stick someone in there can barely fit through the door and it'll cause the entire thing to collapse in on itself.
Marshland is absolutely terrible to build on.
I used to live on Plum Island for a few months (not long enough to get the story).
I could never figure out why that thing was way out there... and now I know... LOL.
4:12 For a 2-storey basement with a pool, a 3-storey hole needed to be dug. The neighbors better hope their houses were properly shored during the project.
Yep, that will be tricky one to build unlike the others.
People now don't care as long they have a roof above their head, property is so expenaive now.
Anyone that has pissed off someone enough to go through that much effort to stick it to them almost certainly deserves it.
Seems like spite was a really big low key thing. I love it. Dirty little secrets. I need more.
is it just me who feels better with those revenge executed well? 😂
BE AMAZED : When was your rage large enough to spilt roads ?
Me: Have you ever ANGERED a Southern Mom !!!?? 😂
I'm Cuban and I agree
I am surprised the city didn't just build a road anyway like many of the ones that followed. Thanks to eminent domain no one really owns any property but the government.
That was very entertaining I must say. It was so hilarious and shocking at the same time. Amazing how far and petty people would go to piss someone off for sweet revenge!
A lot of houses in sf look like revenge housing
I feel like u learned more history in this video than a history class.😅
I love this level of pettiness😂😂😂
People during lockdown be like:
It's time to show the neighbors what *real* building is.
the grudge building is exactly next to my school ! disb !! we walk pass there everyday
Tima jabak I feel sorry for the explosion.
Yea sorry
You know whats sweeter then revenge? love.
I wonder if "The Grudge" is even still standing after the port explosion mishap...
Due to it's shape it probably collapsed
When you trolling your neighbor to the next level 😂🤣
On the TV show "Fear thy neighbor", they just buy a gun and kill the troublesome neighbor.
Why do you hate lesbians
Random fact:
Cows choose other cows as best-friends and spend all their time together.
SciFactsYT ok
Samarth Muthyala say one more word and you will pay
That's rather mooving
@@therealDannyVasquez haha nice
Lol
I'm definitely amazed because I always wondered why they put houses too close together lol
6:42 update -- in Dec. 2019 the Montlake Spite House (as locals call it) sold again, this time for $615,000.
I love spite houses. So delightfully petty and such awesome revenge.
5:12, the houses are not social distancing, especially since it is a gathering of separate households lol
"Tardis-like house" NOW YOU HAVE MY ATTENTION
Its like Larry David , opening Latte Larry's next door to Mocha Joe's strictly for revenge
what did we learn people from the past are savage.
they all genius!
The Ba'sa means "the middle finger", not a grudge
It actually means "The fuck" as in the noun version of "fuck you"
Well which is it?!
Ba’sa means finger, depending on context it can mean “finger in ass” or “finger in face”
“Finger in face” meaning the act of flipping someone off which I guess can be seen as “fuck you.”
If you look it up all you get is info about this house for some reason though.
Them: "Do you think that any of these petty home owners are justified in their actions?"
Me: the are all! Any one so dedicated to ruining another's life is amazing!
That’s both cruel and halrious
Dayton mansion, in Minnesota, is another interesting spite story. From what I remember, the house was built out of spite, across the river from his ex wife.
I was having a really shitty day until I watched this.
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My Dad grew up on Randall Ave. in Freeport. Makes me wonder if it was named for spite guy.
Kavanagh was an Irish descendant, her ancestors come from roughly 1846 from Ireland. The name Kavanagh is an Irish surname.
Nobody needed to know this but it's here anyway
Kavanagh is actually one of the Irish royal families.
@@txgunguy2766 Wonder about any relation to Brett Kavanaugh.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley He does act entitled.
We live not far from Pie House. I've always admired it. It's cool looking and yes, someone stuck it to somebody else! Lol
Rip - Beirut Lebanon, and too all the people who lived there 😢 😭 🙏🏼
"It's new, it's bright, and it's built on spite!"
- Doofenshmirtz
4:35 thats a bad idea in case one of them catch on fire then your both out a house
And here we have a law, that forces you to build at least 3 meters away from the edge of your property, unless you have a written permission from your neighbor.
A lot of these were built in the early 1900's before stricter building and safety codes were a thing. With the exception of the London house(it's and the neighbors are made of brick) a lot of these close proximity houses are against modern fire codes. It's more for historical reasons they haven't been torn down but if a fire or other event that would cause major damages where a rebuild would be needed were to happen then they couldn't be reconstructed in the same area.
$500,000 for that pie house? That’s insane.
It's Seattle; that's cheap.
I grew up in Freeport, Long Island, and have been past that house 100's of times, I lived like 4 blocks from it. I never knew that story.
I had a friend that owned a house in Newport Beach, Ca. It was the house he grew up in and bought from his father. The property was considered to have an; ocean view, but you had to go out to the front yard to see it. OR, build a second story, which his neighbor did. My friends house was on the opposite side of his neighbors ocean view, which made any biilding for an ocean view impossible, not to mention now his neighbor could look right down into his yard eliminating any backyard privacy.
So needless to say he was pissed about it. Bamboo is a tree that grows pretty fast. And as skinny as it is, it puts out a lot of leaves. So he gave me a job planting bamboo in his backyard. The trees were delivered one afternoon, I had the holes pre dug and waiting. So the day after they were delivered, they were planted. Side by side, right along the fence that was now useless. The funny thing was his nieghbor never even knew about them until one morning he started seeing something growing up in front of his sunrise windows. I wish I was there to see the look on his face when he realized his sunrise windows soon couldnt see diddly squat. No sun, no view. Just bamboo leaves.
The name Mainwaring is actually pronounced Mannering!
I never knew that
Though the Winchester house wasn't exactly built out of spite, it does have an interesting back story.
Strangely, I'm okay with all these spite houses. 😁
That narrow house in Massachusettes looks kind of cool and cozy.
My husbands ex wife wanted to take everything from him even though he said she could keep half the house and everything in it. He represented himself and wrote all the letters to her solicitor. (Using online solicitors letters) he never paid a penny on legal anything. He dragged out the divorce proceeding so she had to keep paying for the letters sent. (£40 a letter and he had sent around 100 letters which her solicitor had to reply to. She asked for his harley but he had given it to a friend to look after. When it all went to court they had to sell the house and split the money and she came off with practically nothing and what she had was gone in no time.
The good thing about the unites states is that most of the times you dont even know your neighbor
I know mine but most just the first two houses in each direction and those across the street. The rest I just know by name from the HOA documents since I am the president.
I've always said: if I ever win a big lottery; I'm doing stuff like this. To people who deserve it.
😯
When railroad magnate, E H Harriman, wanted to move into the upscale, closed and gated community of Tuxedo Park, NY, he was met with opposition. Tuxedo Park had been referred to as the Beverly Hills of the east. He was "new money" and the town that invented the formal Tuxedo smoking jacket wanted nothing to do with him. Even though he was one of the richest men in the entire world, he was still considered an outcast. EH Harriman did get his revenge. He deciding to buy the entire mountain ridge that was adjacent to Tuxedo. EH Harriman purchased various land parcels and eventually acquired 40,000 acres for the grounds of his estate. To access the ridge, a custom railroad engine was built that grabbed the railroad ties themselves to pull itself up the steep grade. On the ridge-top he built his 100,000 square foot home so he could look down on all the people in Tuxedo Park and they would have to look up to him. He even ordered the builders to design and build the home so that when he was on his royal throne (toilet) he would not only look down on Tuxedo when having a poo, he would also 'flush' in their direction. Revenge!
Spite is one of my favourite emotions, so this video brought me a nice cathartic release!
I thoroughly enjoyed these stories.
2:55
Only true 13+ people can solve the meaning of this building
Yup I understand the middle finger
Thies people are bored and they rich
So they are spending their money
XRAYAN MHX um 😶 what?
@@misanthropic985 um 😶 what? 🤔
Um 😶 what?
Um 😶 what?
Um 😶 whut?
11:03 "...this silver thin...." should be sliver thin.
Smaller houses are more cozier than large ones. *CHANGE MY MIND*
The town is Alameda. Not Almeida. It’s on the San Francisco Bay, west of Oakland, wast
Of San Francisco. I know the spite house well, Alameda is my
Home town, it’s an Alameda
Legend.
Do you have nuclear wessels?
Couldn’t resist, Star Trek 4.
Lmfao wtf the last one bro blocked out his sun, whole ocean view 😭😤😂😂😂😂 super petty 😭😭😂😂😂
Al baa'sa house was built because one brother stole the majority of the land inherited from their father and left this small part to his brother knowing the land should have been shared equally. and that's why the losing brother built Al Baa'sa.
Alameda in California isn’t pronounced al-may-da. It’s ala-mee-da.
This ^
Who cares
@@alisonbarratt3772 The residents of Alameda, CA.
@Peter Evans typical colonizer antics. Personalizing someone else's culture & language, just to meet their own greedy, insignificant, egotistical needs.
@Peter Evans would love to know how you pronounce "Detroit" or "llama."