[sauropod]

"Again, the neighbors have a responsibility to mitigate the damages which a neighbor inflicts upon them.

"We do live in a self-governing society; we are not a bunch of serfs ruled by an elite class of overlords or some foreign occupation army."

But isn't that what you are proposing? Its called a homeowner association.

The people that destroyed the neighborhood should be legally and financially liable for the loss of value of their neighbors' property. AuntB has presented enough evidence that this indeed had occurred. This should be doable without the needed for neighborhood fascist homeowner's associations.

The neighbors should have sued for loss of value of their property and future income from the reduced value.

[Cultural Jihad]

Again, if a neighbor's water main is leaking, and it starts to bring flood damage to your property, you don't just sit on the information, and wait for the problem to result in dry rot and condemnation of the property. You get the infringement halted as soon as possible. That is what it means to mitigate the damages which others inflict. One doesn't need property associations to accomplish this protection of rights. It can be done with zoning ordinances.

[AuntB]

But sued, who, Pod? The illegals? We couldn't even get the zoner's or Sheriff's office to approach the problem. They are "hands off". And now they own the neighborhood. Some of them are on Social Security ....disabled, ya know. Can't touch that, either. I couldn't even afford to hire the attorney. The laws are not for people like us, Pod. We're invisible. And no one wants to hear it.