99 problems and a neighbour is one.

2:54 my jaw actually dropped and my mind has been blown!! She ACTUALLY built a massive, skyscraper middle finger in front of their home! Nothing can beat that. She wins

imagine having enough money to build a grudge house

There are actually two "spite houses" I know of involving my rich sister. One is not exactly a house but a warehouse next to my uncle's house. The two are bitter enemies so when my uncle had his illegally gotten house built beside our family's warehouse, my sister added a second floor to it to block the view on the side. Also, she used the warehouse as a storehouse for expired/expiring goods so that mice, rats and cockroaches lived there in huge numbers and even migrate into my uncle's house. The other spite house was already built between a business rival's house and her property. You see, the rival has a rectangular property next to her corner store. In that lot lives a poor family in their rectangular house. Through some cunning, she was able to buy the other half of the lot (the driveway/parking lot), leaving the rectangular house in between her two properties. She was so confident that no one will be interested in buying the skinny rectangular lot in the middle of her properties that she decided to wait until the poor family decides to sell their property at a much lower price. But she crossed paths with my sister and got her mad enough to seek revenge for it. Upon hearing the predicament of the poor family, she sent an intermediary and offered to buy their lot for a princely sum. The poor family quickly and gleefully agreed to the offer, thankful to be given the chance to give a big eff-you to the neighbor who's been harassing them for years. Before their hated neighbor got wind of it, the property was already sold to my sister. My sister quickly put up the property for a business lease and awarded it to a noisy maker of steel and iron grills. The smoke and noise it produces annoy the hell out of its neighboring establishment to this day.

I sorta live in a Spite house. The former owners of my house painted it this really bright blue color and it stands out from all the other homes on the street.. the thing is I would of been happy to paint the home until I met my neighbors..they are lawyers from New York and come down to my area like 1 month out of the whole year and every time they show up they act as if they own the whole neighborhood writing loads of complaints to the HOA with claims that someone's home is not in compliance ect ect, threatening lawsuits and so fourth..so when I discovered that the reason the previous owner of this home did so in spite of these people I felt I needed to carry this legacy.. (I have also spoken with our HOA and the thing is this bright blue color is considered an appropriate color 😉)

Damn, they had a lot problems in the 1900’s

1925 seems like a rough year for spiteful real estate. The roaring 20's gave people more money than they knew what to do with it.

In our little town, Waynesboro Pa, a couple owned an Advanced Auto and got a divorce. Out of spite, the wife bought the lot next to the business and opened up an Autozone, then promptly hired most of the better employees.

The giant concrete middle finger was awesome! That's one serious woman, what dude was a moron for listening to his family. That broad was the real deal, and self-made!

Considering how bad my ex wife screwed me in our divorce and continues to this day, I found great joy in that replica house built in the middle of nowhere.

I just want to imagine what the builders thought about some of these buildings

"Before seeking revenge, dig two graves"

My father in law was constantly harassed by his neighbor for petty things. Once a cop showed up because the neighbor complained his outside grill was causing smoke in their house. When the cops arrived, my father in law hadn't even started the grill yet! The cop asked if there was anything he wanted to complain about regarding the neighbor. He said no, but the next day he painted the side of his garage that faced directly into the neighbor's back yard, a very bright pink. The neighbor had to erect an expensive fence to block the sight of the garage.

A lot of things happened in 1925

Is it just me or when houses are built out of hatred, the houses seem better???

1973 our neighbor liked to throw rocks at the kids and dogs in the neighborhood. One rock hit my friend's puppy and injured it. We couldn't prove it so he was not arrested. Se we painted "PUPPY KILLER!" on the front of his house when he was away. The police came and of course we got in trouble and had to go to court. The judge ordered us (age 10-14) to repaint the whole outside of the house. The just did not specify color or pattern. We obeyed the judge's order to the T. The house spent over a decade with dozens of pink and purple cartoon puppies with a yellow background all over it. We sent photos to the judge who wrote back informing us that we had fulfilled the terms of the court order along with a photo of himself with his own pet puppy, a yellow lab.

I have driven by the Montlake house many times, we know it as the "Spite House". We were told that it had something to do with zoning, but the neighbor theory works. In my neighborhood, there is a corner that had several small houses in a row, then a slightly bigger house on the corner, then around the corner a tiny ranch with NO yard but a strip in back and front. The last of the row had to be razed as it was beyond repair. Turns out, it had a huge lot behind the others, with a small panhandle going to the front. I wished I could buy it and give it to each of the other 5 so everybody could have a decent size yard. But it was sold and a nice large house was built using mostly the back space so now nobody has much yard. The bizarre thing is why was it all zoned like that in the first place? The corner house is from the 20's or 30's. The 4 in a row look like post-war prefab kits. (They're super cute) The ranch around the corner is from the 50's or 60's or maybe later.

That middle Finger Building Tho.... 😂🤣😂😂

Rich people revenge: Build beautiful houses. Me: Praying my enemy to die.

These days the government would waste resources to get involved in people’s petty fights and tell them what they can or can not do with their private property.

Love it. I have always fully subscribed to the old adage, "Don't get mad, get even".

my grandfather did something similar to this in Seattle. He had planned on biulding a long pier that widened to make a helipad. Due to an ordinance, his neighbor was able to get the city to deny the building permits. so instead my grandfater simply had large trees planted to block his neighbors view of the water. he spent thousands on those trees. No clue how much to actually had the brought and planted just to block his neighbors view.

That first house was really pretty despite of the location

Scary stuff. I've decided that if anyone spoiled my property on purpose, I would move out and donate it to the homeless, or make it a half way house for criminals who have done time.

4:17 As a house painter, my first thought was: How on Earth do they maintain the sides that are 12 inches apart? I’m sure it didn’t take long before moisture trapped in there started to rot the siding and trim on both houses. How would you do repairs and paint in there?

Feeding humans their own medicine is an intoxicating joy

"It was built entirely out of spite" 😂😂😂

I see no issue with being vindictive, as long as you cause no physical harm. I nurture each and everyone of my grudges with a lot of care and tenderness. It makes life very interesting.😎😎😎

Al ba'sa doesn't mean the grudge, it means the finger, literally.

Even though many caused me to giggle, humans can be so unkind to each other.😔

5:03 it would be so funny if their kids become best friends/fall in love with each other

is it just me who feels better with those revenge executed well? 😂

At 11:18 , "AL BA'SA" literally translates to "The middle finger", not the grudge :P [i'm from Lebanon, and the term is from our urban dialect]

In my small town, a man owns a nice house on a hill across the street from a pretty lake. Someone wanted to buy the land directly in front of the lake, but the man in the nice house petitioned and fought to not allow a residential building to ruin the view and some other bullsh*t his lawyers worked up. (I don’t really know much about the case) He won, and the guy wasn’t allowed to build his house there. He still bought the land, though, and found a loophole that allowed him to put a business on the land. He built really ugly storage containers for a self-storage facility so he could actually ruin the view. They’ve been there for about 15 years now!

I feel like u learned more history in this video than a history class.😅

My family had some legal issues with the people we bought our property from 15 years prior. They claimed that they still owned the waterfront (seeing as we live on a river) and after going through court, their case was denied because the local government owned the land. To get revenge, my dad hung a 15 foot long sign that said, “WATERFRONT” for upwards of 3 months, right where anyone driving by on the main road in town would see.

I love that the miner enemy even put the stairs into his home, on the side where his neighbor's house is!!!! lmao

Title should be” pettiest homeowners who spent a fortune 100 years ago

LMFAO!!! That first one for the divorced lady was pure gold!!!!! :P Love it!

Anyone that has pissed off someone enough to go through that much effort to stick it to them almost certainly deserves it.

Obviously, they never heard the saying “Revenge is a dish best served COLD”

Tales from times, when building codes were weak.

I wonder if "The Grudge" is even still standing after the port explosion mishap...

Seems like spite was a really big low key thing. I love it. Dirty little secrets. I need more.

Moral: Be nice to your neighbors.

This dislikes are from the people who suffered from these

My husband dreamed up a new paint colour and combo for our house in Florida, which the local paint store was not suppose to mix for anyone else. Naturally, they did and a year later, four houses on that short street looked just like ours. He painted our house black for revenge. It certainly upset the neighbous. We had quite a lot of parties back in the late 60's and 70's, we never had a problem with friends finding our house, for sure. There was only five houses there.That is a true story.

When you trolling your neighbor to the next level 😂🤣

People now don't care as long they have a roof above their head, property is so expenaive now.

Siblings fight : -1st sibling : FU im going to make a large house and get most of the land our father left us ! -2nd sibling : hold my architect and construction workers

Born & raised in nearby town to the "Pink" house. It is still wrapped in controversy. Due to it's poor condition, located in a marsh and what was not mentioned in the video, it is at the end of the runway of a local municipal airport there was a movement to tear it down. Since it is a landmark there has been a big local $ drive to save it. It's still there in tough shape. It's on the only road out to the island. Kind of blew my mind to see it on here.

Regardless of the motivation it shows that with enough motivation anything is possible.

A lot of houses in sf look like revenge housing

One time I built a large wooden house on a hill in Minecraft and my friend's sister burned it to build her own house. She loved the way the nearby mountain looked. I built a fortress on and in that mountain, and when she told my friend what happened he told his mom and she grounded her for terrorism. LOL Edit: I made this up stop liking this

"Tardis-like house" NOW YOU HAVE MY ATTENTION

I love this level of pettiness😂😂😂

4:12 For a 2-storey basement with a pool, a 3-storey hole needed to be dug. The neighbors better hope their houses were properly shored during the project.

People during lockdown be like: It's time to show the neighbors what *real* building is.

Its like Larry David , opening Latte Larry's next door to Mocha Joe's strictly for revenge

I'm definitely amazed because I always wondered why they put houses too close together lol

BE AMAZED : When was your rage large enough to spilt roads ? Me: Have you ever ANGERED a Southern Mom !!!?? 😂

On the TV show "Fear thy neighbor", they just buy a gun and kill the troublesome neighbor.

Dayton mansion, in Minnesota, is another interesting spite story. From what I remember, the house was built out of spite, across the river from his ex wife.

My husbands ex wife wanted to take everything from him even though he said she could keep half the house and everything in it. He represented himself and wrote all the letters to her solicitor. (Using online solicitors letters) he never paid a penny on legal anything. He dragged out the divorce proceeding so she had to keep paying for the letters sent. (£40 a letter and he had sent around 100 letters which her solicitor had to reply to. She asked for his harley but he had given it to a friend to look after. When it all went to court they had to sell the house and split the money and she came off with practically nothing and what she had was gone in no time.

That was very entertaining I must say. It was so hilarious and shocking at the same time. Amazing how far and petty people would go to piss someone off for sweet revenge!

I've always said: if I ever win a big lottery; I'm doing stuff like this. To people who deserve it.

6:42 update -- in Dec. 2019 the Montlake Spite House (as locals call it) sold again, this time for $615,000.

the grudge building is exactly next to my school ! disb !! we walk pass there everyday

You know whats sweeter then revenge? love.

Omfg, my uncle had a penthouse in the second building. I remember everything.

“Allmeta” lol

what did we learn people from the past are savage.

5:12, the houses are not social distancing, especially since it is a gathering of separate households lol

And here we have a law, that forces you to build at least 3 meters away from the edge of your property, unless you have a written permission from your neighbor.

I was having a really shitty day until I watched this.

Them: "Do you think that any of these petty home owners are justified in their actions?" Me: the are all! Any one so dedicated to ruining another's life is amazing!

Kavanagh was an Irish descendant, her ancestors come from roughly 1846 from Ireland. The name Kavanagh is an Irish surname. Nobody needed to know this but it's here anyway

The 2nd building DOES look like a giant middle finger! That cracked me up! 😀😆🤓

Once upon a time, my psychologist said I need to write a letter to my enemy, dug a hole and build a concrete house on top of it. So I did. But she never say anything to do about the letter tho.

The Ba'sa means "the middle finger", not a grudge

Random fact: Cows choose other cows as best-friends and spend all their time together.

Though the Winchester house wasn't exactly built out of spite, it does have an interesting back story.

My takeaway from this: Americans in the 1900s were mighty petty! 🤣🤣🤣

My Dad grew up on Randall Ave. in Freeport. Makes me wonder if it was named for spite guy.

The name Mainwaring is actually pronounced Mannering!

I hope I reach these levels of petty one day 🤣

The one in Virginia city Nevada , is literally up the street from my great grandfathers house, and I think of it every time someone talked about being petty

dude imagine if you wanted to do the last one to your sibling, and the builders ask "Why do you want it like that?"

4:35 thats a bad idea in case one of them catch on fire then your both out a house

Rip - Beirut Lebanon, and too all the people who lived there 😢 😭 🙏🏼

I grew up in Freeport, Long Island, and have been past that house 100's of times, I lived like 4 blocks from it. I never knew that story.

The good thing about the unites states is that most of the times you dont even know your neighbor

I love spite houses. So delightfully petty and such awesome revenge.

I’m just wondering how many of these houses have bodies buried under them...🤔

imagine actually doing something as a revenge lol

Strangely, I'm okay with all these spite houses. 😁

Damn they really wasn’t f*cking with each other in the 1900s😂😂

When railroad magnate, E H Harriman, wanted to move into the upscale, closed and gated community of Tuxedo Park, NY, he was met with opposition. Tuxedo Park had been referred to as the Beverly Hills of the east. He was "new money" and the town that invented the formal Tuxedo smoking jacket wanted nothing to do with him. Even though he was one of the richest men in the entire world, he was still considered an outcast. EH Harriman did get his revenge. He deciding to buy the entire mountain ridge that was adjacent to Tuxedo. EH Harriman purchased various land parcels and eventually acquired 40,000 acres for the grounds of his estate. To access the ridge, a custom railroad engine was built that grabbed the railroad ties themselves to pull itself up the steep grade. On the ridge-top he built his 100,000 square foot home so he could look down on all the people in Tuxedo Park and they would have to look up to him. He even ordered the builders to design and build the home so that when he was on his royal throne (toilet) he would not only look down on Tuxedo when having a poo, he would also 'flush' in their direction. Revenge!

*The No1 and No2 are my favourite. The House in a Desert and the Middle Finger House.* *I love both stories.*

We live not far from Pie House. I've always admired it. It's cool looking and yes, someone stuck it to somebody else! Lol