Ruining a graceful house
Sandouri Dean Bey discusses a 19th-century "stick style" house that is getting ripped apart around the corner from his house:
... The house sold for over $500K, a sad testimony to an inflated real estate market. Worse still is that after paying such an exorbitant price, the new owners proceeded to begin their half-assed renovations without pulling any permits whatsoever. The city quickly shut them down, but not before the jackasses had ripped off the front porch, which - even though it had fallen into disrepair - was quite lovely with fluted Doric columns. Now it's gone, and in its place is an ill-suited, poorly designed, and shabbily constructed deck. ...
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