Cheapest Way to Get DC Residency (Buy/Rent/Sublet etc.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where do you live? You'll need to pickup mail occasionally.

I'd rent the cheapest studio possible in Ward 7 or Ward 8 and have the mail forwarded to a PO Box near you. Though, I'm not sure if that would trigger a notification to your employer.

You'll have to do "married filing separate" which will have tax implications for your family. Usually it means you don't qualify for certain tax breaks.

The absolute cheapest way to do this is to use a friend's address in the District and give them $100/month for the hassle of holding your mail.

That’s what I want but I know zero people in DC

You work for the District, know zero people that live here, do not want to live here, but want to make a higher salary. You can turn down the excess salary cause this need to move to DC, you can rent a room in DC and live there during the week, or you can resign. Anything else is lying and I am sure a DC resident would happily accept that job.

Oh and lying about city residency has caught many a city worker. I love those local news exposés where they follow the city worker to their out of state home.

Signed, a former city employee that lived in the City.

These people get caught because they (1) use the DC public schools and (2) don't pay DC income taxes.

OP will be fine because he will be a District taxpayer and he's not utilizing the District schools. DC doesn't care as long as they get their tax dollars.

If anything Maryland and VA screwed out of tax dollars. This is cash cow DC. Collecting taxes and providing no services

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where do you live? You'll need to pickup mail occasionally.

I'd rent the cheapest studio possible in Ward 7 or Ward 8 and have the mail forwarded to a PO Box near you. Though, I'm not sure if that would trigger a notification to your employer.

You'll have to do "married filing separate" which will have tax implications for your family. Usually it means you don't qualify for certain tax breaks.

The absolute cheapest way to do this is to use a friend's address in the District and give them $100/month for the hassle of holding your mail.

That’s what I want but I know zero people in DC

You work for the District, know zero people that live here, do not want to live here, but want to make a higher salary. You can turn down the excess salary cause this need to move to DC, you can rent a room in DC and live there during the week, or you can resign. Anything else is lying and I am sure a DC resident would happily accept that job.

Oh and lying about city residency has caught many a city worker. I love those local news exposés where they follow the city worker to their out of state home.

Signed, a former city employee that lived in the City.

These people get caught because they (1) use the DC public schools and (2) don't pay DC income taxes.

OP will be fine because he will be a District taxpayer and he's not utilizing the District schools. DC doesn't care as long as they get their tax dollars.

If anything Maryland and VA screwed out of tax dollars. This is cash cow DC. Collecting taxes and providing no services

Right, exactly. However, the spouse is still a tax payer of one of these states so they are legit when it comes to enrolling kids in the local schools.

I get why cities do this. I also think it's messed up that they exempt first responders from this requirement. They should either apply it to everyone or no one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where do you live? You'll need to pickup mail occasionally.

I'd rent the cheapest studio possible in Ward 7 or Ward 8 and have the mail forwarded to a PO Box near you. Though, I'm not sure if that would trigger a notification to your employer.

You'll have to do "married filing separate" which will have tax implications for your family. Usually it means you don't qualify for certain tax breaks.

The absolute cheapest way to do this is to use a friend's address in the District and give them $100/month for the hassle of holding your mail.

That’s what I want but I know zero people in DC

Wait. You work in the DC government and don't know a single resident? Do you not see the problem with this? You don't know any of the people for whom you work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where do you live? You'll need to pickup mail occasionally.

I'd rent the cheapest studio possible in Ward 7 or Ward 8 and have the mail forwarded to a PO Box near you. Though, I'm not sure if that would trigger a notification to your employer.

You'll have to do "married filing separate" which will have tax implications for your family. Usually it means you don't qualify for certain tax breaks.

The absolute cheapest way to do this is to use a friend's address in the District and give them $100/month for the hassle of holding your mail.

That’s what I want but I know zero people in DC

Wait. You work in the DC government and don't know a single resident? Do you not see the problem with this? You don't know any of the people for whom you work?

Not well enough for this. I am supposed to on a teams meeting say hey can I file my taxes and put my drivers license at your moms home address in DC. I can’t use a coworkers address they audit that. So no

[Anonymous]

Do an activity to meet people who live in DC! Go to church, volunteer somewhere, hang out at a bar — it’s not that hard. I’m sure plenty of folks would love to rent you a room that you don’t use.

[Anonymous]

Just to be clear, you are a DC city employee and asking for advice about how to commit residency fraud.

OP, the taxes and drivers' license are one thing, but a bigger reason the city has this requirement is because you have skin in the game with regard to city services and operations.

If you can't meet that, you should turn down the raise and/or find work in MoCo.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How do you know zero people in dc if you have worked at a dc government job long enough to pass the threshold for needing to move to dc? You had to know this was coming.

I have been working from home in MoCo last 2.5 years. I don’t feel comfortable asking people at work. We just started back to office part time.

The DC thing is silly they expect people to live in DC with remote work I may turn down pay raise. Why does DC have to force people to live there.

An apt building with 150 sf apartments downtown with mailing address would be money maker. Heck SRO with bath in hallway ok with mini fridges and coffee maker in room fine. I don’t see any on line.

Even a cube would do!

Some UPS stores offer mail boxes that look like real addresses. Would that work?

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry! Why would DC residents help someone trying to con DC? You earn here, are required to live here, move home or move job. Don't try to illegally game the system. Is it a good lesson to teach your children?

[Anonymous]

Renting a UPS store mailbox in DC will gives you a DC street address.

[Anonymous]

OP, think about this rationally. If you have been living just fine being slightly under the 150k threshold, is it worth it to spend the extra money to rent a place you won’t use, and to lose certain tax breaks because you are going to file taxes separately from your spouse? If you don’t need the raise and don’t want to deal with the hassle of trying to figure out how to commit fraud, just don’t take the raise.

[Anonymous]

Employers are literally begging people to come work for them. Find a new job that doesn't make your life more complicated and force you to walk the balance beam of legal vs illegal. The federal government has thousands and thousands of openings, I am sure you can find something comparable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry! Why would DC residents help someone trying to con DC? You earn here, are required to live here, move home or move job. Don't try to illegally game the system. Is it a good lesson to teach your children?

Eh, the only one "gaming" the system is the DC government. He will literally be paying DC taxes while using none of the services. As a DC resident and tax payer, I thank him for paying for my kid's PreK3 and highly subsidized aftercare!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Employers are literally begging people to come work for them. Find a new job that doesn't make your life more complicated and force you to walk the balance beam of legal vs illegal. The federal government has thousands and thousands of openings, I am sure you can find something comparable.

This. Find a better employer that doesn't require you to live in the city. There is no amount of money that would make me want to live in DC, and clearly you feel the same.

If that's not doable, I'm sure that you can find a super cheap basement somewhere that you never go to. That'll be the easiest rent collection for that landlord!

[Anonymous]

It is a 25k raise that put me in this position. Not really worth it. I got six months to quit, get demoted or move.

DC sucks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry! Why would DC residents help someone trying to con DC? You earn here, are required to live here, move home or move job. Don't try to illegally game the system. Is it a good lesson to teach your children?

+1. OP is a low moral person.