Buy a house, then make it the most putried smelling place that someone can smell for a block. Buy the near by houses for next to nothing.

Posted by RegularSky6702@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 27 comments

there might be other ways to do this but just try to drop the property value by a lot so you can get the other houses cheaper

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We_R_the_Penguins@reddit

Congratulations. You’ve reinvented block-busting.

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pakrat1967@reddit

Do you really think that you're the first person to plan a real estate swindle by trying to devalue the neighborhood? Using bad smell might be new, but the basic concept isn't.

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wooble@reddit

I usually just put on a mask and use a movie projector to make a g-g-g-ghost.

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xrelaht@reddit

And you would’ve gotten away with it too…

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CorgiMonsoon@reddit

The odds of four teenagers and their Great Dane pulling up in a van to bust your real estate scheme are pretty slim

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Pretend-Mango-1295@reddit

Code enforcement would tear your shit down before that happens. That's a crazy idea

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Xanadu87@reddit

Wrap the stinky house in a sock, so when they come to grab your house, all they grab is a sock

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RegularSky6702@reddit (OP)

Get an endangered species and put it right above where the smell is and put a nest there. That way they can't move it

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Unicornoftheseas@reddit

Private nuisances are still private nuisances, you would have a bad time if you did that

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Wet_Side_Down@reddit

There are still the neighbors with the pitchforks…

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BeerAndTools@reddit

Eyy, I like this guy. When confronted with reality, he doubles down and creates an even more unhinged idea to spice it up. Nice.

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I can’t find any legal codes specifically about smelliness of property you own, though I might be missing something. There are lots of protections for renters, but the only ones I find that address odors from individually owned homes are for specific sources: you can’t render fat, you can’t leave out rotting meat, you can’t burn trash, etc. As long as you avoid those, I’m not sure what code enforcement could do.

The neighbors could take you to court for nuisance odors, but that’s expensive, takes time, and there’s no guarantee they’d win.

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aardvarkarmour@reddit

You're complaining of a crazy idea on this subreddit?

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grafknives@reddit

Or you can buy it and rent it to a BLACK person.

The traditional, American way

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HughJorgens@reddit

In a semi-related story: I dated a girl who's father was a doctor. When it came time to upsize his house, he just bought the one next door to his old house and connected it with a giant tunnel, with a few rooms off the tunnel. Then later, the neighbor on the other side of the new house, around the corner from the second house were selling their house, so he bought it and connected it to the second house with another long tunnel. It was something.

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KnoWanUKnow2@reddit

There's no need. Buy a house and leave it vacant. Soon enough the homeless move in and then it becomes a trap house and the surrounding land values plummet.

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XROOR@reddit

Read that a guy removed the switch plates and emptied the contents of canned tuna then reinstalled the switch plates

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tocksin@reddit

Except if you devalue someone else’s property they can sue you for the lost value. And since it’s the whole neighborhood they’ll probably come together and drive you out with lawsuits.

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GotMyOrangeCrush@reddit

Or deodorizer

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patiofurnature@reddit

OP's real crazy idea was to make a bunch of Redditors think that HOAs are a good thing.

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RegularSky6702@reddit (OP)

Or I could run one and I'm showing this thread to people in my neighborhood who want to dissolve the hoa

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Th1ccSenpai@reddit

What about after you do this? What would you do to raise property values again after your undesirable stench plan? It would permeate the house if it was bad enough to make people move away

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monkeybawz@reddit

If my 2 options are to sell to the stink house guy for pennies on the pound or to grab my pitchfork....