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‘No HOA’: Man Makes Entire House Pink, Says Neighbors Can’t Do Anything About It
PFLUGERVILLE , TX (KEYE/CNN) - A Texas neighbor- hood is in an uproar over a Pepto-Bismol, full-on-flamingo, Pink-Panther- pink house.
But the home- owner doesn't care what his neighbors, or anyone else,
thinks.
Emilio Rodriguez says “it’s just my favorite color.”
Rodriguez bought his home in November, when it had a plain shade of white. Now the walls are pink, the gutters are pink, the roof is
pink, the chim- ney is pink.
It’s all pink.
“I did the back first, the whole back of the house,” Rodriguez said. “Then I did the whole house.”
Rodriguez loves pink so much, he showed off
the large pink tattoos he has across his chest and neck.
He said a house painted like this was his dream home.
And he said annoyed neigh- bors aren’t going to faze him. He chose his neighbor-
hood particularly because there was no home- owners’ associa- tion to block him.
“No HOA. No HOA. I pre- planned this specifically because of that reason,” he said “So when peo- ple get mad, I explain there is
no HOA here.”
After a car acci- dent and years of health prob- lems left him in a wheelchair, Rodriguez says the pink house is part of the “Keep Austin Weird” vibe.
"That's what people are say- ing. They're like, ‘Why are people so freaked out, have they never been to Austin?’” he said.
Neighbors who disagree may turn to a lawsuit to try to press the issue. Rodriguez, though, doesn’t see the big deal.
“I love this house,” he said. “I don't know why people don't like it.”
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