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New owners of a Baltimore Christmas house: Could you please leave the lights on?
Nov 27, 2020
Here’s the question: If a Christmas house — that is, one of those homes that every December becomes a local attraction because of its extravagant display of holiday lights — changes hands, are the new owners expected to maintain appearances?
In other words, if a couple buys a Christmas house from people who decorated said house with lights every holiday season for decades, and said buyers assume ownership of said lights along with title to the real property, should said buyers keep putting up said lights?
Isn’t it a civic obligation?
Shouldn’t it be required by ordinance or covenant?
Hey now, it’s a free country and the obvious answer is, “Of course not, you fascist.”
But this is serious business around Baltimore, and I’m sure I’m not the only person who wonders about it.
Christmas houses have become landmarks; people expect them to be there, aglow like the Griswold house in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,” every year. Grandparents drive their grandchildren around the Beltway to see them; for some people, it’s the only time they ever get to Parkville. College students come home and expect to find Christmas houses where they’ve always been. Same with Baltimoreans who move away but return to the hometown for the holidays. Everyone knows where to reliably find lights.
So should the sale of a Griswoldian house, the mere changing of hands, be allowed to disrupt the public’s enjoyment of it?
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