Neighbor renting SFH to seven undergrads. Seven.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

+1 College kids are quieter than they used to be. They have their cell phones and online lives...

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Consider the bright side: Hopefully, the seven are not members of the local Harley Davidson riding club.

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We have been in a similar situation. We live right near the DC-Maryland border (intersection of Massachusetts Ave and Western Ave) in Bethesda. We were surprised when one of our neighbors rented to 6 male undergrads from American University. I felt bad for the landlord because they were a World Bank family who moved out of the country for a few years.

The tenants did extensive damage to the house in the 1 year that they lived there. The landlord (our friend/neighbor) had to seek compensation from the parents of the undergrads, and the parents eventually paid.

Now, there is a young family living in the house, and they moved to the area to take advantage of the K-12 schools.

The landlord has said that, if they rent to students again, it will only be grad students, and only if it's 1 person person room (rather than multiple people per room).

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A house in our neighborhood was recently rented to four young men who are probably in first jobs. They have had some parties and don’t take great care of the yard but it is exciting to have some signs of life in my boring neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not that house but close. I’ll DM you if you have an account. To be clear I’m not looking for trouble; just trying to understand the law and seven kids/young adults is a lot on our street.

Would it be a-okay if it were a "family" with 2 adults, 5 kids? Maybe 2 adults and older IL, 4 kids? Would you be upset and starting threads about trying to get them out before you even know them? Because I can tell you which group is likely to be noisier and more disturbing to others. (Hint, it's not the college students, they typically don't stand outside screaming all day long).

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The house next door to us is rented by 5 girls just starting their careers. My husband loves it! Seriously, so far they are very nice and they have been great with my kids.

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Your experience will really depend on the type of people the 7 undergrads are. Hopefully they are good kids who will understand that their behavior impacts their neighbors in both positive and negative ways, and they will try to keep it positive! I guess my guidance would be to be friendly with them and try to maintain a positive relationship with them. You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar and all that.

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Personally I like to live around a variety of types and ages of people.

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Too early to make yourself upset. They might be awesome neighbors.

My college roommates and I moved into a nice house off campus (we wanted to visit, but not live in, the party houses). I wound up checking on one elderly neighbor every morning because her family rarely visited her. She’d tell me stories about the neighborhood over percolated coffee. 🙂

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I lived next door to a group house in Arlington. Young adults just out of college. They were fine. Polite and respectful.

You need to wait and see what happens OP.

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Anonymous wrote:The house next door to us is rented by 5 girls just starting their careers. My husband loves it! Seriously, so far they are very nice and they have been great with my kids.

So much to unpack here.

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The house across the street from us is rented to 6 recent grads ever year. The owner lives up the street about a mile away, and we asked him about renting through an embassy, or the military, but he is not interested. Every year we get 6 new kids.

The girls were great neighbors. They were clean, quiet, and to my knowledge had ONE party. It was Halloween and they gave candy bags to neighbors, said they were having a party, and asked us to call them if we thought it was too loud (it wasn't). The rest, over 15 years, all guys. Some have been awful (dump beer bottles and fast food trash around their cars, park in front of neighbors homes, don't take care of the lawn, leave trash cans out all week, etc.), and some have been just fine.

You never know until you know. Only suggestion, based on our experience, is if there is a problem, deal with it sooner, rather than later. If there's a loud party, call the police. If there's trash everywhere, or not properly taking care of the yard, contact the county (we are in Moco). Hopefully you won't even notice them, other to say Hi and good day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The house across the street from us is rented to 6 recent grads ever year. The owner lives up the street about a mile away, and we asked him about renting through an embassy, or the military, but he is not interested. Every year we get 6 new kids.

The girls were great neighbors. They were clean, quiet, and to my knowledge had ONE party. It was Halloween and they gave candy bags to neighbors, said they were having a party, and asked us to call them if we thought it was too loud (it wasn't). The rest, over 15 years, all guys. Some have been awful (dump beer bottles and fast food trash around their cars, park in front of neighbors homes, don't take care of the lawn, leave trash cans out all week, etc.), and some have been just fine.

You never know until you know. Only suggestion, based on our experience, is if there is a problem, deal with it sooner, rather than later. If there's a loud party, call the police. If there's trash everywhere, or not properly taking care of the yard, contact the county (we are in Moco). Hopefully you won't even notice them, other to say Hi and good day.

Or, OR, you could knock on their door and non-confrontationally ask them to keep the next party quiet/end it earlier and to try to get a hold of the litter/yard. If that doesn't work, then sure, involve the city/county.

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The house behind us rented to 4 new college grads - all guys. I was worried for nothing! They have finally moved on after 4 years - 3/4 are engaged. We now have a new set of 4 college grad - 3 guys, one girl. No change. No large noisy parties, keep to themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

+1 College kids are quieter than they used to be. They have their cell phones and online lives...

Spoken like someone who has never lived near college kids recently.