Hodgetwins - This is why legal immigrants can suck too 🤣
Aired: 2025-12-01
Duration: 21:26


=== Nuts: Homeowner's Crazy Addition (05:47) ===

[00:00:00]  Outrage a northern Virginia neighborhood tonight over a new addition being built onto a house.
[00:00:04]  Hot sauce Bob Barnard in Fairfax County with the details and a look at that construction.
[00:00:09]  That looks nuts.
[00:00:11]  What is that?
[00:00:13]  Looks like an apartment complex.
[00:00:16]  Construction causing the uproar.
[00:00:19]  It really is a sight to behold here on.
[00:00:22]  Look at the house right here.
[00:00:23]  And look at this monstrosity sitting right here.
[00:00:25]  What is that?
[00:00:26]  An add-on to the other house?
[00:00:27]  Yeah, it's an add-on.
[00:00:30]  We used to live in Fairfax County.
[00:00:31]  Right.
[00:00:33]  It's an affluent blue Democrat area.
[00:00:37]  Tell me you're an immigrant without telling me that's an immigrant can live there.
[00:00:42]  Marble Lane in the Greenbrier section of Fairfax County.
[00:00:46]  That three-story addition to a home built.
[00:00:49]  That is freaking nuts.
[00:00:50]  Look how it blocks the other house.
[00:00:53]  That home's value right there goes to zero.
[00:00:56]  Who's going to buy that house?
[00:00:59]  It lost its street appeal.
[00:01:03]  It lost its curb appeal.
[00:01:04]  Is that how you say it?
[00:01:05]  Yeah.
[00:01:06]  Curb appeal.
[00:01:06]  That's a street appeal.
[00:01:09]  In the 1960s, that's now the talk and outrage of the neighborhood.
[00:01:13]  That's now the talk and outrage of the neighborhood.
[00:01:16]  I mean, it looks like a townhouse.
[00:01:19]  It looks like a portion of a townhouse that has been added on top of the house.
[00:01:23]  That doesn't look like a town, no, it does.
[00:01:26]  Courtney Leonard lives literally in the shadow of the new addition being built onto her next-door neighbor's house.
[00:01:32]  Look at that.
[00:01:33]  That is crazy.
[00:01:36]  That is crazy.
[00:01:38]  That is nuts.
[00:01:38]  I don't know how this pair of it is.
[00:01:40]  Look at the house.
[00:01:40]  Stupid.
[00:01:41]  Yeah, but not to come out of your house.
[00:01:44]  It's right next door to yours.
[00:01:46]  Just a big wall.
[00:01:48]  Otherwise, it doesn't look anything like what it's attached to or anything else in the neighborhood.
[00:01:52]  Courtney says there's no HOA here, so no rules that have to be followed.
[00:01:57]  Other neighbors tell us they're okay with this, that three generations of a very nice family will be living here.
[00:02:04]  Three generations.
[00:02:05]  They're going to move a bunch of people in there.
[00:02:09]  Three generations.
[00:02:10]  Yeah, tell me you're an immigrant without telling me you're a new grandma and grandpa, then their kids, and then their kids.
[00:02:17]  Yeah.
[00:02:18]  Nothing to add to our story.
[00:02:19]  According to the zoning laws, they are well within their rights.
[00:02:24]  And there's nothing I can do about it.
[00:02:26]  Courtney says she and her family were given no advance notice.
[00:02:29]  Seems to me that when you put something like this up, you want to talk to your neighbors about it.
[00:02:34]  But we have not spoken to them since.
[00:02:36]  It feels like it's not real.
[00:02:39]  But you see it.
[00:02:39]  I mean, you've seen it.
[00:02:40]  So yeah, it's shocking.
[00:02:42]  It's blocking the sun.
[00:02:43]  Yeah, and if you got windows from your home, when you look at them, all you see is a house right there.
[00:02:48]  You're just going to see a big wall, yeah.
[00:02:50]  Katie Dash lives several blocks away and says she's a lot.
[00:02:53]  Hey, but this is what these people voted for.
[00:02:55]  Those are immigrants moved in next door to them.
[00:02:58]  This is Dave and Proven Legal Immigration SOPs.
[00:03:02]  Armed like many who know about this.
[00:03:04]  And so I think we're all just concerned if it could happen to her.
[00:03:08]  It could happen to any of us.
[00:03:09]  And I'm still confused how it was approved.
[00:03:14]  I think that's our biggest issue in the neighborhoods.
[00:03:17]  Like how there has to be something wrong.
[00:03:19]  It's been weeks.
[00:03:20]  If this was white people, they wouldn't allow it.
[00:03:22]  But because it's immigrants, they allowed it.
[00:03:24]  That's why.
[00:03:25]  But I mean, you're allowed to make upgrades to your house.
[00:03:27]  Yeah, of course.
[00:03:28]  Remodel, add on a little bit, you know, a bit, you know, a little bit, but that's that's like two other house, two more houses.
[00:03:34]  Yeah, that lot is so small, there's no room for additions, though.
[00:03:38]  Yeah.
[00:03:38]  I mean, it just looks ridiculous.
[00:03:41]  The acreage is not, it's not a lot of acres around that house.
[00:03:43]  Yeah.
[00:03:45]  Back and forth.
[00:03:45]  And I love this neighborhood and the people in it have been so helpful.
[00:03:49]  It just feels like there's nowhere else to go at this point.
[00:03:52]  We turn to Pat Harrity for clarification.
[00:03:55]  He's the Fairfax County supervisor for this area and has been out to see this with his own eyes.
[00:04:01]  Clearly, does not belong in our suburban neighborhoods, a structure like that.
[00:04:05]  Eight and a half feet from the property line, three stories tall, three stories.
[00:04:11]  It has no place.
[00:04:12]  And we need to fix our zoning ordinance to make sure that doesn't happen again.
[00:04:16]  Supervisor Harrity says he's going to propose that fix at the board's meeting next Tuesday.
[00:04:21]  In the meantime, late today, we heard from Fairfax County staff that while this addition does fall within the zoning guidelines to date, as built, it's too close to Courtney's property line, and so construction has been paused.
[00:04:35]  What's to come of this project?
[00:04:37]  That is still to be determined.
[00:04:39]  All right, I got they interviewed the uh the homeowner.
[00:04:43]  That is crazy how that got how that got approved.
[00:04:46]  There's no other structure in that neighborhood that even remotely close to that.
[00:04:50]  All right, so this is the homeowner.
[00:04:52]  They interviewed him.
[00:04:54]  He's Asian.
[00:04:55]  Now, this kind of structure is typical in Asia, South Asia.
[00:04:59]  Oh, really?
[00:05:00]  Well, yeah, just how this is right.
[00:05:02]  Yeah, it's here.
[00:05:03]  Let's check out what he got to say.
[00:05:05]  Well, we started this process about in January of this year, so it's almost about 11 months.
[00:05:12]  And we 11 months.
[00:05:15]  You know what that tells me?
[00:05:16]  English is not his first year.
[00:05:19]  About 11 months.
[00:05:20]  We started about two, about 15 years ago.
[00:05:25]  Y'all been here like five weeks.
[00:05:32]  We went through the process of getting the zoning and building permits.
[00:05:38]  And the process is quite takes a long time.
[00:05:41]  About seven months all total.
[00:05:44]  Seven months?

=== Seven Months of Zoning Struggles (07:34) ===

[00:05:47]  You know how you fix this?
[00:05:48]  Roll ice.
[00:05:50]  Well, he sits on the stereotypes.
[00:05:51]  He got a thick accent.
[00:05:53]  Well, dude said he's been there for three months.
[00:05:56]  But he would get arrested on the spot.
[00:05:58]  Nah, he's tip.
[00:05:59]  Nah, he's.
[00:06:00]  I'm sure he's got a green car.
[00:06:01]  I'm sure he's the citizen.
[00:06:03]  I'm sure he's the next last citizen.
[00:06:05]  Approve and issue out.
[00:06:09]  So everything was fine.
[00:06:11]  And he's probably a good guy.
[00:06:14]  He seems like a good guy.
[00:06:15]  He's a good guy.
[00:06:15]  But see, that culture, when you bring immigrants in, this is probably normal for that culture.
[00:06:22]  Right.
[00:06:22]  But it's incompatible with our culture here in the States.
[00:06:26]  Yeah, because that house is totally incompatible with that neighborhood.
[00:06:29]  Yeah, no black person, no white person will build a house in Fairfax, Virginia that looks like they're putting it to La Quinte in or something.
[00:06:38]  Nobody would do that.
[00:06:39]  It's his culture.
[00:06:40]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:06:41]  From where he lives, he's blind to it.
[00:06:43]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:06:44]  No, I talked to my neighbor.
[00:06:46]  I'm saying that I'm doing an addition and everything is fine.
[00:06:51]  Yeah, you didn't tell him what you was doing, though.
[00:06:53]  Yeah, you said you was bidding on to how you're gonna ask.
[00:06:55]  You're gonna make some add-ons.
[00:06:57]  Yeah.
[00:06:57]  But you didn't show no pictures.
[00:06:58]  Yeah.
[00:06:59]  But as soon as the process went up and it went up to the second, the first, second floor.
[00:07:06]  That is crazy.
[00:07:07]  You know, nothing.
[00:07:08]  That's the second floor.
[00:07:09]  That's a third floor.
[00:07:11]  Nothing going on.
[00:07:13]  But as soon as it goes up to the third floor, I noticed that a lot of people going by with their cars.
[00:07:23]  And so I knew that, yeah, it's something different in the neighborhood.
[00:07:28]  But it's something that my family decided to do so we can have the space for the kids and the family.
[00:07:40]  But it started to go on not a nice route.
[00:07:46]  I have a lot of cars going by and literally like harassing me, saying obscene things to go back with you.
[00:07:58]  How many cars are going to be parked in front of this house now because of this family that's moving in?
[00:08:03]  Right.
[00:08:03]  You know what's going to be really crazy when there's no room to park and they start parking in front of other people's houses.
[00:08:09]  Because you got like five generations living in your house.
[00:08:13]  My kid was playing in the front yard and me was sitting here.
[00:08:18]  And at that time, I felt really scared.
[00:08:24]  So I...
[00:08:25]  Oh, now he's the victim.
[00:08:28]  I would not even.
[00:08:30]  Well, you know, why don't you do that to your neighbors?
[00:08:33]  I don't know.
[00:08:33]  But maybe it'll look nice when they finish.
[00:08:36]  It looks like an abomination right now.
[00:08:38]  But when it's finished, it might increase property values.
[00:08:42]  You stupid.
[00:08:44]  That house next door, ain't nobody ever buying that house.
[00:08:48]  And these homes are worth money.
[00:08:49]  This is Fairfax, Virginia.
[00:08:51]  Well, you think those homes are worth about $700,000, $800,000?
[00:08:54]  Yeah.
[00:08:54]  Yeah.
[00:08:55]  His house is probably worth $10 million.
[00:08:56]  I started to put the ring camera around the property just to kind of have a safety, you know, caution on.
[00:09:07]  So it kept on going.
[00:09:10]  But I didn't realize anything was going on.
[00:09:13]  I just thought maybe, you know, people going by, you know, seeing the is that a big TV right here?
[00:09:20]  I've been watching this.
[00:09:22]  It dudes TV like 100 inches.
[00:09:24]  Different things.
[00:09:25]  So they just stopping by and you know, taking pictures and stuff like that.
[00:09:29]  But and then it kept on going, going.
[00:09:32]  And then one day, my neighbor here, he told me that there was a group on Facebook, the community group, that one of my neighbors had put my house up on the discussion and give her side of the story, what she didn't like, or and stuff like that.
[00:09:58]  So a lot of people went in and commented.
[00:10:01]  And, you know, that's when it started attracting a lot of attention in the neighborhood.
[00:10:08]  Man, everybody can see that thing from like 20 miles away.
[00:10:11]  What are you talking about?
[00:10:12]  That's like the clock tower and back to the feature.
[00:10:15]  Everybody can see it.
[00:10:15]  He said that Facebook post drawed a lot of attention.
[00:10:19]  You don't think that monstrosity you put on attached to your house?
[00:10:23]  You don't think that drew a lot of attention?
[00:10:26]  Word of mouth, Ms. Watts.
[00:10:28]  It's on the news.
[00:10:29]  Well, you can see it from, you can probably see that damn house from Pittsburgh.
[00:10:36]  In that time, I had people coming by asking me, oh my God, can you show me the process?
[00:10:43]  It's a nice thing that you're doing.
[00:10:44]  And because of the neighborhood here, most of the house square footage is very small.
[00:10:50]  So now, if you all those small houses he building, you have a family, like a family with two kids, it's hard to, you know, have space for the kid to do anything inside.
[00:11:03]  Do what most white normal people do.
[00:11:06]  They go buy a bigger house with more acreage.
[00:11:09]  Yeah.
[00:11:09]  This is like slim mentality right here.
[00:11:12]  It's like what?
[00:11:13]  Slim mentality.
[00:11:16]  Because I'm telling you, in South Asia, they do a lot of this.
[00:11:19]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:11:20]  They build up instead of inside a house.
[00:11:24]  So they were like, oh, you know, we would love to get some pointer and stuff that, you know, you're doing with the how to go ask the county and stuff like that for this.
[00:11:33]  So I have people that came by and asking me the process to do this type of stuff.
[00:11:41]  You go through, you got to just go through the county and do the right way.
[00:11:45]  So you've had a mixed response.
[00:11:48]  Yeah, a mixed response.
[00:11:49]  Negative, so people are curious about it.
[00:11:50]  So one of the big questions that the internet wants to know is: so you did get approved via the city, the county, to build this then.
[00:11:58]  Exactly.
[00:11:59]  And you said that was quite a process to go through.
[00:12:01]  Yeah, it took seven months, almost seven months.
[00:12:03]  Seven months?
[00:12:04]  There's seven months again.
[00:12:06]  Yeah, it's true.
[00:12:07]  It's a long process, but I want to see the person that approved this.
[00:12:11]  Actually, she's got blue hair.
[00:12:15]  Okay.
[00:12:15]  And how big is this structure?
[00:12:17]  How many square feet do you hope it for?
[00:12:19]  3,000.
[00:12:20]  3,000 square feet.
[00:12:21]  Okay.
[00:12:21]  And he's adding 3,000 square feet for that small little lot to his house.
[00:12:28]  Three.
[00:12:29]  You know how big 3,000 feet is?
[00:12:32]  Yeah.
[00:12:33]  That's why it's going so the local supervisor, Mr. Harity, has commented that this does fit the zoning protocol.
[00:12:44]  However, he's seeking to maybe change that.
[00:12:47]  What are your thoughts on that going forward?
[00:12:50]  Well, all the rule that is set in the county, it's what they have said.
[00:12:55]  That's what they do.
[00:12:56]  All I do is to apply to the rule that they have already set.
[00:13:01]  And everything they have said, we have comply and meet.
[00:13:05]  So I'm not sure, you know, why would I know what would the condition be for people to change that kind of stuff?
[00:13:14]  But in my case, I can only say that we go through all the process the right way.

=== Community Rules vs. Built Plans (08:05) ===

[00:13:21]  And the thing is, what I feel is like I've been here 20 years and you know, I love my neighborhood, all my neighbor, I have persimmon.
[00:13:31]  You still can't put an S on words that are plural, but you've been here 20 years.
[00:13:37]  I believe first language, man.
[00:13:40]  His English probably better than my first tree, and I share it with all my neighbors.
[00:13:46]  Persimmon tree.
[00:13:47]  Persimmon tree?
[00:13:48]  Yeah, this is like an Asian fruit.
[00:13:50]  Asian fruit?
[00:13:51]  Yeah, persimmon tree.
[00:13:52]  I have three of them, and it gives a lot of.
[00:13:54]  That's horrible.
[00:13:58]  He's trying to change his neighborhood in a little Asia.
[00:14:02]  That looks horrible.
[00:14:03]  Yeah.
[00:14:05]  That's Asian fruit.
[00:14:06]  Every year.
[00:14:07]  And I share with all my neighbors.
[00:14:13]  I love the community here.
[00:14:16]  What do you say, the community?
[00:14:22]  The community here.
[00:14:23]  Oh, you said it right.
[00:14:24]  You said it right.
[00:14:24]  Stop picking up.
[00:14:25]  And for me to have that kind of response for something that I'm just doing to my house, and I'm not, you know, doing to anybody.
[00:14:37]  And one day, I even felt a couple came by and harassed me.
[00:14:45]  And I just said, can I ask where you guys live?
[00:14:49]  Because I haven't seen you guys around.
[00:14:51]  And they live all the way across the way.
[00:14:54]  Probably from Pittsburgh.
[00:14:55]  Yeah, you're just talking to town.
[00:14:57]  He still doesn't get what he's doing.
[00:15:00]  Atrocious.
[00:15:00]  They're like you're building a damn light tower.
[00:15:04]  Well, you got air traffic controllers in that damn house.
[00:15:10]  That is crazy.
[00:15:11]  Who the hell would approve that?
[00:15:14]  So I'm like, it's like, I feel so like, it's like, what's going on?
[00:15:19]  You know, it's like people really go out of their way to get on other people's business where I'm not doing anything.
[00:15:30]  You know what?
[00:15:30]  He's a good guy.
[00:15:31]  Dude's hard work.
[00:15:33]  It's a cultural thing.
[00:15:34]  Yeah, it's cultural.
[00:15:35]  He's not a bad person.
[00:15:36]  Yeah.
[00:15:36]  He's just very inconsiderate.
[00:15:41]  But I tell you like this.
[00:15:42]  He didn't do anything wrong.
[00:15:43]  The city allowed him to do it.
[00:15:46]  Yeah, man.
[00:15:49]  So, what are you going to do, man?
[00:15:51]  He followed the law.
[00:15:52]  He's a law-abiding citizen.
[00:15:54]  Naturalized citizen?
[00:15:55]  What can you do?
[00:15:56]  You can't do anything.
[00:15:58]  Yeah.
[00:15:58]  But you can't hold that person accountable who made that decision.
[00:16:03]  Yeah.
[00:16:04]  I want to see what else he's got to say.
[00:16:06]  So, and then the other thing is like in front of my kids.
[00:16:10]  Yeah.
[00:16:11]  Like six and three.
[00:16:13]  And it's like they didn't know what happened.
[00:16:15]  And why people coming by and yelling and cussing at my family.
[00:16:19]  You know, just remotely.
[00:16:21]  Why do you think they are?
[00:16:22]  What's your perspective on what makes people so upset about it?
[00:16:25]  I think it's in this area, not a lot of people do addition or changing their structure or make an upgrade to their house.
[00:16:35]  But down in other counties, like Arlington Fall Church, where I worked, Falls Church.
[00:16:41]  If you go into the neighborhood.
[00:16:42]  He said Fort Church.
[00:16:43]  He said Fall Church.
[00:16:46]  He didn't like the rest.
[00:16:47]  He has a problem with this.
[00:16:48]  But it's like three house would be changed, upgrade and built or plane.
[00:16:54]  They knocked down and built.
[00:16:56]  And the next, the one house is like this, one level.
[00:16:59]  The other house is three level.
[00:17:00]  You know, so it's like normal down in other parts of the county.
[00:17:06]  Those lots are sure are bigger.
[00:17:08]  Look how small the lots are.
[00:17:09]  Yeah, but look at the houses.
[00:17:11]  His house does not belong there.
[00:17:13]  Yeah.
[00:17:13]  That damn air traffic control center he's built.
[00:17:16]  See, this is fine.
[00:17:17]  This is like a two-story, one-story.
[00:17:19]  Okay.
[00:17:19]  Joyce is up here.
[00:17:21]  You got a three-story.
[00:17:22]  That looks cheap.
[00:17:23]  I think they call that a three-story house.
[00:17:26]  That house is like it's five-story.
[00:17:28]  Yeah.
[00:17:29]  But here, because look how small that street is.
[00:17:33]  Yeah.
[00:17:34]  Where is everybody going to park?
[00:17:36]  Right.
[00:17:36]  That's going to be another can of worms that's going to open up when everybody moves in.
[00:17:41]  You just park one car here and one car here.
[00:17:43]  Look, you could.
[00:17:45]  I hope they got escalades.
[00:17:49]  The price for people to just buy and then make addition and or do anything major to it, it would be too much.
[00:17:59]  So you're saying that adding the 3,000 square foot apartment complex here is cheaper than, say, buying a new house or just go to the apartment company.
[00:18:09]  Exactly.
[00:18:11]  The cost-wise right now, it's more for me to go buy something now.
[00:18:16]  It's just too much.
[00:18:18]  And I love this area.
[00:18:19]  I don't want to, you know, I don't want to go away from this area.
[00:18:23]  So I just, you know, it's the, I want to stay here for my next general, my kids, uh, generation.
[00:18:28]  So it's, it's it's what we want to do.
[00:18:31]  And it feels like what I'm doing is, you know, something that like out of this world or something, you know, so I'm not sure.
[00:18:40]  Right.
[00:18:41]  Yeah.
[00:18:41]  But right.
[00:18:42]  I can see kind of the discussion here.
[00:18:43]  Yeah.
[00:18:44]  We're halted right now, correct?
[00:18:46]  It is on hold.
[00:18:48]  On hold, okay.
[00:18:51]  The setback.
[00:18:53]  So when the county approve on the zone, yeah, this way.
[00:18:57]  You can just talk right.
[00:18:58]  So when the county approve the size setback, it's eight feet minimum.
[00:19:07]  So from the house to the property line.
[00:19:11]  So this is eight and a half feet.
[00:19:14]  Okay.
[00:19:15]  When the county approve, right?
[00:19:17]  So when they approve it by the survey, but now they approve it with the building.
[00:19:23]  You can't even get it the top of it in the camera shot.
[00:19:26]  Yeah, that's crazy.
[00:19:27]  That's why I say that's got to be higher than three stories.
[00:19:31]  But now when we built exactly as the approved plan, somehow it came out that out here is Eight feet plus, but at the end of the uh, the house is 7.4 feet.
[00:19:46]  Okay, so the back end kicks out.
[00:19:48]  Yeah, so but the measurement of the building is correct as is planned.
[00:19:55]  Okay, so the plan was good, but the pre-plan maybe.
[00:19:59]  So I'm not sure where that the zoning, uh, what the zoning did, that you know, the calculation, but they approved the plan that it's built exactly.
[00:20:11]  I can understand that if the construction building the wrong measurement of the plan, right, then that's something different.
[00:20:19]  But it's the plan that is approved and it's built exactly per plan, but now it's come out to like that.
[00:20:26]  So the builder did find, but yes, but the city, the county did not that.
[00:20:30]  So I'm not sure where the mistake was made.
[00:20:36]  Now knock all that stuff down.
[00:20:38]  They're gonna turn that down.
[00:20:40]  You can two stories is fine.
[00:20:41]  It's still gonna look horrible, but yeah.
[00:20:44]  That's an apartment complex.
[00:20:49]  He said he called it an apartment complex.
[00:20:52]  Yeah, like no American would do this.
[00:20:54]  It's like common sense.
[00:20:56]  But because you bring in these different cultures, they bring they bend the rules.
[00:21:01]  Yeah, they because that's what they're used to.
[00:21:02]  They ain't no zoning laws and South Asia.
[00:21:05]  You just build wherever the hell you want to build.
[00:21:07]  Yeah, you know what's funny?
[00:21:07]  I bet you it's got to be somebody that approved this that's close to him.
[00:21:11]  I mean, I'm just speculating.
[00:21:12]  I'm just, I'm talking out the side of my mouth.
[00:21:14]  I don't know.
[00:21:15]  But this to get approved, you had to have someone on the inside.
[00:21:20]  I might be wrong.
[00:21:21]  I have no evidence to back up what I'm saying.
[00:21:23]  It's just a theory, right?
[00:21:25]  Yeah.
[00:21:25]  But man, that is crazy.