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Scott H • Hale
" because someone could also fall down the stairs, making stairs a hazard" that's a "straw man" argument definition: "an intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent's real argument." Kelly T - the owner cost her own sale by not having it prepared correctly. You all are scapegoating and attack me and I am a good man
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Kelly T • East Colfax
Your character isn't the issue. Someone who was uninvolved in the transaction of a sale between two willing parties intervened and it caused the sale agreement to fall through. The buyer had made a decision and was thwarted, not by a change of mind, but by intervention by another party to block the sale after another uninvolved party reported it. It just seems like a lot of people with zero vested interest in anything going on with the transaction got themselves involved and prevented it from happening. There are lots of things in this city that probably violate some kind of ordinance or code or other if people wanted to mind everybody else's business for them and plenty of things that "could be" hazards but actually aren't. People have lived in some of these houses for the better part of a century. What made this be an issue was not the stove, but was the fact that some neighbor who had no involvement in the issue or the transaction whatsoever stuck their nose into it and messed it up for the two parties whose business it was. The owner might have "cost her own sale" if the buyer had been you or someone with your fire safety concerns but the person who was going to buy it didn't have those issues. The OP lived in the house without having any issue with the stove. You are talking about an edge issue about how the stove "is" a hazard that "could" catch fire and burn adjoining houses. Isn't that a straw man argument by definition?