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Originally Posted by dheinz
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One of my coworkers told me about a local photographer who lived on her street. It was an older neighborhood of well-built homes. Lots of trees providing wonderful shade.
It had not risen in caché insofar as local real estate values and this photographer liked it that way because it meant his property taxes were reasonable.
Every time a house went up for sale on the street, he went in his shed and pulled out several of those plastic flamingos and installed them in his front yard. Supposedly that kept the snooty types from moving in, rennovating the house beyond neighborhood norms, telling their friends about the neighborhood, and causing a bump in the home values.
I think putting an old Vega on blocks out front would've done a good job as well.
But that's a lot of trouble to do every time a For Sale sign goes up and I know the city ordinances wouldn't have allowed it.
No ordinance against plastic birds, though.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman in "Twister"...did you remember he's in it?
