Q: What’s bold and sticks out like a sore finger?
A: An brightly coloured house in Marina da Gama!!
And to think that the guilty party is actually family of an Executive Committee member!! As far as I remember, this particular Committee Member bleated something about “following due procedure” and “proposing a change to the colour scheme at an AGM”?
What do you think? Should we be allowed to paint our houses something other than white?
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackNot even 1 km from you, people live in cardboard boxes, eat dustbin food and have to rob in order to survive. A little futher, 1 million people live in a township where 40% don’t have electricity, water or toilets. On your other side, people are being driven from their places of residence, simply because they speak another language… Your house value is dropping even as I write this mail. We’re entering an economic ressesion.
No, I don’t give a damn either, but at least I don’t bicker about the colour of a house. If the colour of your house makes a difference to your mental well-being, please paint it any colour you want. Then the rest of us can have a break from this senseless talk.
Please get a life!
I’ve never liked uniformity. Bring it on!!
I would love to be able to paint my house something other than white, but what this person has done is wrong. I agree: white walls are ugly, cannot be kept clean and the glare cannot be good for your eyes, but even if you did not know you had to belong to the Association before you bought into the area, you knew that the house had to be white. This home-owner has left himself open to prosecution by Council and I would be surprised if it does not happen.
Changing the colour of your home does not impact only on this one homeowner, but on the whole ambiance of the village. The decision to change the colour-scheme should rest with everybody who owns property in the area and not one person only.
I like the uniformity of the marina,that is why I bought my property here.When I bought here I knew the exterior had to be white as it is a council bylaw.This person clearly has no respect for the neighbours or the marina in general.Lets hope the ass. or council sorts this out.
Interesting indeed! My house is painted white but like many others is showing the normal signs of wear & tear from the relentless wind & rain of this past year. Now talk about getting a life – in just this last week the association have popped into my letter box a (unsigned) letter threatening me with legal action for not painting my parapets…
By all means ask me to paint my pink walls and blue garage doors white, but telling me how often to paint my white walls white is overstepping the mark a bit, don’t you think? Especially in these financially trying times when we don’t all have a foreign income to help balance the budget…
Dear Resident.
We have a life, a life we have bought and paid for here in Marina da Gama, a white Marina da Gama that is. In life you get what you pay for. If you pay for a cardboard box, that is what you will get. I paid to live in a neighbourhood which is uniformely white, and I wanted that to start with.
I will lodge an objection with council, not this stupid association, they are useless in any event, but please, Resident, your cries of “get a life” is becoming old and sad. We did get ourselves a life. Bought and paid for by our own hard-earned cash.
I love the idea of going off white/beige. Good thinking of the resident. Paint is expensive and keep painting every 2nd year white is stupid. My house will be next to go off white. There are so many different whites on the market lets challence Excom on this.
The change of the colour scheme is not up to Excom (or any of us, for that matter – even if we have a vote and the majority of the residents agree thereto). Excom can complain and moan about the colour, but if the resident ignores them, Excom themselves cannot do anything about it. Provincial Government was the governing body who instated the law that no homeowner of Marina Da Gama may change the colour of their house without the written permission of the City Engineer. This was Gazetted in October 1987 and anyone wanting to flout this law will be up against Government, not the Association. All Excom will do is go to Council, and Council will have no choice but to act against the resident. Actually, anybody can complain to Council and Council will have to act (although I am sure Excom will have no compunction in taking credit for forcing the owner to paint his house white again). I would certainly not suggest that anyone paint their homes anything but white. You will be forced to re-paint it white, or Council will paint it for you at your own expense. Sad, but true.
so guys where does that leave me for being a naughty girl and not painting my white walls whiter sooner at the behest of the MDGA? i suppose we’ll soon find out so watch this space…
Hi JT.
Just ignore them. They probably know who you are and are just picking on you. My own house needs a serious paint, so why have they not contacted me, but have singled you out? At the end of the day, 90% of all houses in Marina da Gama need to be painted, so if I were you, I would just leave it and paint if and when it suits you. After all, your house is probably your biggest investment and you are not going to let it go to pot just for the hell of it.
oh they most certainly do know who i am. i know that they know who i am and they know that i know that they know who i am….
Hmmmm, so they know who you are, do they? So … it’s a question of don’t mess with us or we will mess with you? Hmmmm…. Could this possibly be a form of not so subtle intimidation?
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