“In the age of Facebook and Twitter, a new crime has hit America: ‘Sharpie parties,’ gatherings of revelers armed with “Sharpie” magic markers and lured by social media invitations to wreak havoc on foreclosed homes.”
Banks do not want to prosecute, so they leave the damage and drop the price. Amazing!
I remember something similar to this occurring in 2009 or 2010,
The police did finally catch up to the party organizers and they ended up in Jail for several years.
Be advised.
Good. If it drives down the value of foreclosures, paint is cheap. Party on, dudes — it just makes it easier for those with more money than you’ll ever see to buy the houses!
(So long as they don’t start brewing meth in foreclosed homes, which is actually hard to clean up.)
I had to repaint a lime green wall, and it was a lot of work with 3 coats of gripper primer, then white paint. I should’ve hired someone to do the work.
People who paint walls psychedelic colors ought to be shot. The house was owned by a Hispanic family that liked bright colors.
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Brian – I doubt you’re seriously suggesting that a family that OWNS a home not be allowed to paint the walls any color they want? And I hope you’re not making any racist stereotypes here….
If you bought the home, with lime green walls, you knew what you were getting.
I’m the type who will always turn off the light when leaving a hotel room.
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When my son was young and he finished doing his chores he would say “Dad, I finished ..mowing the lawn, taking out the trash…etc.” I would look at him and say “What do you want some accolades?” We still use it as a joke to each other when some dumb thing comes up, “just looking for some accolades”
OK B-ri here are you accolades for turning out the hotel light………..
UCGal, I was trying to say that bad wall colors are hard enough to undo. Over decades those coats of paint will fall apart.
Sharpie destruction, or destruction out of spite, is unforgivable. No need to be destructive of things just “because you can.”
I can understand people walking away strategetically. But I don’t understand people who destroy on the way out. Trashy people.
Desmond, yes I want accolades for being respectful of things and not being wasteful. It bothers me that people think it’s OK to be wasteful of resources when staying at hotels.
Americans are generally wasteful, though. Look at other countries, where lights in apartment building and hotel hallways are generally either on motion sensors or on timers.
my kid has a whiteboard in his room to visualize homework upon. beats writing on the walls. i tend to think he might occasioanlly scribble on the wall if we hadn’t bought him a big whiteboard.
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