'Christmas Lawyer' who went to war with HOA spends windfall on holiday cheer

https://www.foxnews.com/media/christmas-lawyer-who-went-war-hoa-spends-windfall-holiday-cheer

  • This guy is definitely not a good guy

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    I got the same vibe when I ran the story. He buys into an HOA knowing he's putting up the decorations, tells the board a year in advance and they tell him yeah not a good idea. He goes forward with it anyway then sues when he's fined. By his own numbers he's cost his neighbors over a million dollars for his personal vendetta when the HOA was doing what his neighbors asked of them.

    Me hating HOA's would of been yelling at the board to shut this guy down. Turns the quiet neighborhood into a circus show and buses people in to see it? Fuck that!

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  • Did not enjoy how the article got gradually more and more about The War On Christmas, and eventually I just stopped reading because it felt like I was just reading the plot summary of the next God is not Dead Movie. That was exhausting.

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    Yeah. I'm an athiest. I don't mind people's displays - religious or not. I don't like HOAs but I get the distinct feeling this guy is an insufferable a-hole 364 other days of the year.

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  • This guy sucks.

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  • They give me mega church vibes

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  • Nah, fuck this guy. He’s a douche and should have been run out of his neighborhood.

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    Yea, he had 700,000 Christmas lights running for 4 months/year and was bussing in thousands of people to a week long party with live music, food, etc. The fact he claimed doing this was a part of his religion is just dumb

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    Dont forget the camel.

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    he had 700,000 Christmas lights running for 4 months/year and was bussing in thousands of people to a week long party with live music, food, etc

    that's crazy. No wonder the HOA kept fighting it.

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  • I would have been furious with my HOA waisting a million dollars on a lawsuit like this. Additionally the guy shouldn’t have moved into an HOA community knowing he was going to have a Christmas display like this.

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    guy shouldn’t have moved into an HOA community knowing he was going to have a Christmas display like this.

    ngl, don't know how happy I would be with all that happening next door to me either. But I would be even less happy with the HOA lawyers costs.

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    Its hard to believe the neighbors didn't revolt against the board when they started getting the legal bills. They must have all been very very rich.

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    The end of the article, the neighbors may have been pissed. The guy owns the house but had to move out of state due to death threats.

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    Pissed at him, not the board. If I got a 10 or 20k assessment for legal bills, I would have said fuck it unless i was really really wealthy. Told the board to stop.

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    I watched the documentary. From what I can tell he knew what he was going to do read the bylaws and said oh look loopholes that I can get through to allow what I want to do. He knew from the get-go this was going to happen but did it anyways...

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  • For all of you saying that "this guy sucks" just read this

    In response to Morris' plans, one West Hayden Estates homeowners association board member drafted a letter that pondered whether neighborhood "atheists" might be offended by the display and worried about "riff-raff" that might be drawn to the neighborhood, noting that the Morris family previously lived near a Walmart.

    HOAs are always the bad guy

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    It can be both…

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    There is a full documentary on this story on Apple TV and the guy pretty much demanded the HOA allow him to host a Christmas event for months at a time with thousands of people coming through daily into a tiny rural community, then weaponized the media and courts against them before he had even moved in.

    I don’t typically support an HOA but this guy is so disingenuous it’s crazy

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    People that work with and for him (he's a lawyer) all say he's a bully.

    Making up for being unpopular as a kid if I recall.

    I was also unpopular as a kid, but never decided to force my will on an entire neighborhood.

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    This guy still sucks even if the board is stupid.

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    "riff-raff" that might be drawn

    Can't have brown people or poors in our neighborhood.

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    Its like the HOA trash that gets mad when a tradesman parks his "commercial vehicle" in their driveway

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    Yes - thou shalt inherit the house payment, not work for it.

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    HOAs are not actually always

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    Even a broken clock is right twice a day

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    Nah, that fucker had 700,000 lights going for several months every year. He can fuck himself

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  • The homeowners screwed up by making the issue about the display when the real issue is about the safety issues to the community. The volume of traffic (pedestrian and vehicular) would impede a responding emergency service vehicle to the point that the delay could affect services provided (for example a fire or heart attack). Morris set up the display and arranged to have multiple busses transport attendees without providing any vehicle marshals, parking guides, or any attempt to ensure local traffic would not be affected.

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  • One of those rare cases where everyone involved here is insufferable

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  • ITT: "I don't like this guy, so I'm not supporting his rights like I would for people I like."

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