Neighbor renting SFH to seven undergrads. Seven.

[Anonymous]

Mainly a vent. This is in a neighborhood of 3 and 4 bdrm SFH's, 2100-2600 squ ft on avg, 1.3-1.6m, families with kids, etc. While neighbors' tenants are his business, I'm really dreading the start of the school year. This is my first SFH purchase in the DC area. Fifteen years of condo living and tolerating shared walls, noise, etc. Nothing to do but move, obvs. But I'm bummed.

[Anonymous]

You don’t even know that there will be a problem.

[Anonymous]

It’s probably illegal to have that many unrelated people in one house. Depends on jurisdiction though.

And your neighbor is an idiot. Plenty of people want to rent single family homes right now.

Where do you live?

[Anonymous]

It's true, I don't. And it would great if all seven of these college guys were totally chill in a family-oriented neighborhood. Nothing to lose by starting as a friendly neighbor. But...yeah. Just, ugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s probably illegal to have that many unrelated people in one house. Depends on jurisdiction though.

And your neighbor is an idiot. Plenty of people want to rent single family homes right now.

Where do you live?

OP; we're in Ward 3.

[Anonymous]

Remind yourself of this when your kids start college. Hope they can a nice house in a nice neighborhood where they feel safe. Sharing a room in a SFH has to be 10x better than living in a dorm.

[Anonymous]

I live in a quiet single family neighbrohood and the house next door is rented to a large group of adults and children. They have 2 trucks and 4 cars + other cars coming and going all the time. They are not too loud unless they are having a party. You just never know who might end up next door.

[Anonymous]

Are they 22YO men who enjoy engaging in athletic or landscaping pursuits in the front yard? Sans shirts?

Asking for a friend

[Anonymous]

I'm in Arlington, and these types of houses always give out full-sized candy bars at Halloween, according to my kids.

[Anonymous]

Are they parking in front of your house all the time?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm in Arlington, and these types of houses always give out full-sized candy bars at Halloween, according to my kids.

I was the only female in one of these houses (we were in our 20s and worked at the same job, but same idea) and I can attest to this!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's true, I don't. And it would great if all seven of these college guys were totally chill in a family-oriented neighborhood. Nothing to lose by starting as a friendly neighbor. But...yeah. Just, ugh.

I feel like the most likely outcome is that they are fun neighbors with minor nuisances like occasional noise or excess trash. This is not a big deal. Big deal neighbor problems are hoarders and psychos.

[Anonymous]

There are usually zoning ordinances that state the only X number of unrelated people can reside in a X #/bedroom house.

In VA, you can't have more than 4 unrelated people living in the same house. Not sure where you're posting from though Op.

There might be an exception if the residence is within proximity of a university or near a city

This is to prevent boarding houses or situations as Op describes.

[Anonymous]

Eh, we live in Arlington in a SFH neighborhood and a house across from hours was rented to 5 guys, guessing just out of school, working 1st job kind of situation. Never had any problems, they even cut grass and decorated for Christmas. I guess the only annoying thing was too many cars, they each had one.

[Anonymous]

OP back, thanks all, appreciate the optimism!