I’m okay with trying new and weird things, but the notion of the texture of watermelon plus a bun growing increasingly soggy from the juice sounds unpalatable. 

Hell yes

You just say anything, “sub beef-for-beans”. They get it.

Not in Portland.  Portland has a very long tradition of political public nudity that has been upheld multiple times in court - for both men and women.

Not following you here...I have general libertarian leanings, and don’t fully disagree with your stance, which is a fundamental view that as long my behavior doesn’t encroach or impede upon another’s rights, it should be permissible.

Because blight spreads, too.  Maybe not as fast as Covid 19, but when someone’s property turns to shit, others feel that they have a green light to neglect theirs as well.  As these properties sell, their low sales price becomes the basis for property tax assessments.  The lower the market value, the lower the tax…

That’s ignorant.

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but if you own property in an incorporated town then you *are* agreeing to meet a certain visual standard. Ordinances and zoning tell people in the community how the exterior of their property can look all the time, from height to lot size to setbacks to as of right uses.…

They’re not just unattractive, they’re breeding ground for insects and vermin, not to mention possible pollution if they’re leaking fluids. At some point hoarding is a public safety issue, it’s not so simple as just saying “it’s my house I’ll do what I want” when what you’re doing is negatively impacting the people…

I work on my vehicles regularly and would have absolutely no problem with a couple non operative vehicles in an neighbor’s yard but when there are literally a dozen vehicles sitting there for 6 months to 2 year I start to worry about rats, wasps, and other vermin nesting in those 12 junk heaps and spreading to my…

Why would David - a renter - pay to put a shed on the property? He need to buy a house - which in Michigan isn’t that hard. You can pick up a decent single family home for $65 - $100K.

1. He doesn’t own the house, he is renting it.

It’s not “his home”.  He has no equity and doesn’t care.

It’s especially egregious as David is a renter.  He’s not trashing his own property.  He’s abusing the kindness of the landlord.

Except...

So, two weeks to go and out of 12 cars, 10 are still on the property? I get that one of those has been paid for, but it’s still present and maybe will, maybe not, be removed with a week left in your deadline. And lets face it, that Kia is only gone through the good graces of that guy, not through any effort that you…

First they came for the trash hoarders and made tv shows to shame them, but I said nothing because I wasn’t a trash hoarder...

Wow - dunno how many friends I’ll win over with this thought, but if I were your neighbor, I’d have reported you to the city too.

At any point did you consider simply tidying up by picking up the random car parts you have laying around under trees (I mean, really?) and parking your collection of junkyard vehicles in an orderly fashion? If you didn’t keep the property looking so awful and disheveled you might not be having to clean all of these…

I refuse to feel sorry for someone who has basically trash (that’s what unused, unregistered shit boxes are) laying around in their yard. I would be so pissed to have to look at that if I was your neighbor. I get wanting to collect good deals and work on them slowly, but this shit was hoarder status and needed to be…