Theoretical - would you buy this house?

I don’t think I would, regardless of candidate

Unless there was something SO special about the property that made it impossible to find elsewhere, no. Regardless of whether they vote red or blue.

Ah yes and I believe corner lots are taxed higher. In snow country, a whole lot more to shovel.

No privacy, must build side yard wall or wait for bushes to grow .

When I was looking for the house I am in now, my realtor and I pulled up to a house that, on paper, sounded great. We got out of the car and I noticed the house next door. They had multiple yard signs and a big banner affixed to their house. I looked at her and shook my head that it wasn’t even worth looking at the inside of that house. I had no interest in living next door to someone so rabid about advertising their political feelings. A single sign in the center of their yard? That would be okay. But this was obnoxious overkill. It was also for Trump, so I knew I would have nothing in common with the people living there. I will not discuss politics or religion with neighbors. I prefer not to know their thoughts either. I learned from living in my last house for so many years and watching huge rifts happen that even affected the young children in the households. And not necessarily about politics, but they were too into each other’s business and tensions were always high. I wanted no part of that.

If it was Trump, oh hell no.

Is it all the time or just around presidential elections? We have some people here who keep a sign in the yard continuously. Nobody overdoes it; it's usually just one sign though one person has a pretty large one. If the signs are there year round, a definite No. If it is just around election time and I really liked the property, then it wouldn't stop me from buying.

I would not. For re-sale value it might take a while to sell. If you get snow that will be a difficult property to care for. When looking at properties do a google Streetview for the past few years. Drive by the house and lane at different times of the day and nite with your windows down so you can listen to loud noises etc.

No way. I don't want any neighbor that disrupts the overall aesthetic of the neighborhood. If they are this selfish around election time, who knows what they do throughout the rest of the year.

A possible future next door neighbors politics would not have any influence on my choice of buying a home. I don't really understand how it would. They have signs up so at least you know which way they lean. How about all of the neighbors that don't have signs up?
It wouldn't affect the home value, only your potential ability to get along with the neighbor.

Hard pass from me too. DH won’t even let me put a lawn ornament in our yard so there’s no way he would want to look at a neighbor’s display like that day in and day out regardless of who the candidate was.

No, regardless of who the candidate is. Trashy af.

I understand that your neighbors can change at any time as houses sell around you, but I’m not going to go willingly into that situation.

But also, there’s a reason I live in the woods, and don’t have neighbors. Wildlife is rarely trashy. 😂

Probably not. Just because it would be a negative feeling for me every time we stopped by, instead of just being excited, kwim?

On the one hand, at least I'd know ahead of time what I was getting into.

I could buy a lot next to an unadorned house just to have them decide to adorn their home in the future, or for someone else to move in and do so.

Flags & signs everywhere is a red flag no matter the side. If nothing else it can distract drivers and I don’t need a distracted driver ending up in my property.

Ages & ages ago we had a house on a corner & when we bought it the house next door was pretty normal
We lived there 5 years by the time we had sold it the next door property had about 20-25 posts and/or tree trunks of various sizes painted in random bright colors with mirrors attached. You couldn’t really see it from the street as it was in a hill you could only really see it from our house & porch. ( they had a fence so couldn’t really see it from the yard. We sold it without issues but about 4 years later the ‘art’ poles had multiplied and there were many many more and they were up by the street and such. Not sure if those owner had any issues selling it.

But signs of any kind ‘everywhere’ is a no. If you have a garden flag, and a live laugh love sign, or ‘Bobs family lives here’ or even one political sign in your window - whatever, who cares. But if you’ve got that much to say about either side of the political spectrum or religion or whatever else could make put signs ‘everywhere’ I’d venture your probably a few cards short of a full deck and I might not want to live next door.

Few garden gnomes whatever - over 1000 garden gnomes WTF no thanks ( yes I’ve seen this )

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