house sold down the street now turned into a rental with multiple families - legal?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry you live in a poor neighborhood. Move.

We have lawyers, economists, computer programers, and PhD scientists on our street. Yeah, ok, our homes aren't worth $2M, but it's not like it is a crappy neighborhood. It is being turned into trash and being made poor by sh!try new investment people turning good homes into garbage rentals.

If this is a preview of what Thrive MoCo is going to do to SFH neighborhoods, we are getting the hell outta the county quick.

Yes, like I said, move. It’s going to happen in arlington too if this “missing middle” lawsuit fails. Dc is turning to crap. Not sure where to go.

[Anonymous]

Why not talk with the Code Enforcement part of your local government (town, city, or county) ? They know the rules and they can lookup zoning or whatever for that address, and they have authority to inspect as needed.

Beyond that, assuming local government says it is legal or does not care, then your options are either to be silent & stay or to move away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP is talking about 4-5 families not 4-5 professionals living in a home. Very different. It is happening in many SFH and town homes across the county. I work in home health and see it all the time.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s probably not legal. In single family neighborhoods the cap is typically one family or four unrelated adults, so multiple families would be a problem. But as a practical matter the county might not enforce those rules, especially against renters that aren’t engaging in criminal conduct.

Nobody had a problem with me and my four housemates and our five cars in our group house in Bethesda.

Because you didn’t throw trash in the street.

Five PhD students with their families (spouse and 1 child each) would be ok?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every single thing you mentioned is happening next door to me as well. I am not sure why you think construction is needed. They just all share the kitchen etc. It was not turned in to apartments. It is a group house. We are going on year 3 right now. They are generally quiet so that is good...except when cars pull up blasting the radio for pickups/drop offs.

You neighbor can for sure complain about cars parked on her lawn though. Our neighbors just park on their own lawn.

And BTW, I pick up the trash daily when I pick up my newspaper (using the bag). It just becomes routine. For whatever reason they leave their garbage containers open so raccoons or ?? get in and leave a mess. The trash then blows around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Worst nightmare has happened - house down the street was sold and now they're renting out to multiple families and people. They now have multiple cars everywhere, have been parking on my neighbor's lawn, left trash strewn in the street because they don't care, and don't take care of the yard/property of course cause they're renters. Is it legal in Montgomery County to do this? Absolutely zero work and construction was done in the house, so the house is still built with rooms, kitchen, and bathroom like it is for a single family.

It's really justifying up the steet and declining the quality of life for everyone.

Report to code authorities, fire authorities, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Search the county code. There are limits on number of unrelated people in X amount of space.

Multiple families is not the same as unrelated people. We have multiple families living next door to us and they’re all related.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Multifamily housing is the future.

This. The rich are getting richer (the 1%), the rest of us had better adapt. A Murdoch employee is now CEO of The W Post. Bezos is moving to Miami. I shudder to think if Trump is elected again. Chin up.

[Anonymous]

I routinely see 12 plus people living in a home or townhouse. Prior to Covid I would see rooms being rented out to those who worked at night and needed a bed during the day. [

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Anonymous wrote:OP is talking about 4-5 families not 4-5 professionals living in a home. Very different. It is happening in many SFH and town homes across the county. I work in home health and see it all the time.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s probably not legal. In single family neighborhoods the cap is typically one family or four unrelated adults, so multiple families would be a problem. But as a practical matter the county might not enforce those rules, especially against renters that aren’t engaging in criminal conduct.

Nobody had a problem with me and my four housemates and our five cars in our group house in Bethesda.

Because you didn’t throw trash in the street.

Five PhD students with their families (spouse and 1 child each) would be ok?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry you live in a poor neighborhood. Move.

We have lawyers, economists, computer programers, and PhD scientists on our street. Yeah, ok, our homes aren't worth $2M, but it's not like it is a crappy neighborhood. It is being turned into trash and being made poor by sh!try new investment people turning good homes into garbage rentals.

If this is a preview of what Thrive MoCo is going to do to SFH neighborhoods, we are getting the hell outta the county quick.

My guess is you have decent schools and a group home is the only way that the families can afford to access them.

Vote for candidates who want to cap rents and ensure more affordable housing is built and you won’t face this situation.

[Anonymous]

This is happening in my area of New Jersey . Beautiful suburban area and tons of “llcs” are purchasing the homes and stuffing them with multiple families. The LLCs are always named after the street the house is on and always a new name for each house . It’s getting weird when it’s so damn many in my town . The houses then get neglected and the market values may decline because of this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If that’s your worst nightmare your life is a dream. Get over yourself.

Np not helpful. I wonder what you would say if they moved next door to you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP is talking about 4-5 families not 4-5 professionals living in a home. Very different. It is happening in many SFH and town homes across the county. I work in home health and see it all the time.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s probably not legal. In single family neighborhoods the cap is typically one family or four unrelated adults, so multiple families would be a problem. But as a practical matter the county might not enforce those rules, especially against renters that aren’t engaging in criminal conduct.

Nobody had a problem with me and my four housemates and our five cars in our group house in Bethesda.

Because you didn’t throw trash in the street.

Five PhD students with their families (spouse and 1 child each) would be ok?

There’s a rental in my neighborhood that has 2 married couples living in it to offset the high rent, but technically a 4 or 5 bedroom house could hold 4 or 5 couples I guess. Would that be considered 5 unrelated people?

[Anonymous]

So you made up this story just to insert your political views and tell us you're getting out?

OK, you solve your own "nightmare".

On principle, I don't like you because of the prejudices you exhibit about renters in general. There are a lot of people who rent in the world (some of them wealthier than you) and most of them take care of their living spaces.

The neighbor can set up cones or boulders or a fence if parking is an issue on her property.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP might be racist I suspect

Clearly they are. Their worst nightmare is very concerning op needs to get some real problems.

LOL…you know you’ve lost the argument when all you have left is imagined racism.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Worst nightmare has happened - house down the street was sold and now they're renting out to multiple families and people. They now have multiple cars everywhere, have been parking on my neighbor's lawn, left trash strewn in the street because they don't care, and don't take care of the yard/property of course cause they're renters. Is it legal in Montgomery County to do this? Absolutely zero work and construction was done in the house, so the house is still built with rooms, kitchen, and bathroom like it is for a single family.

It's really justifying up the steet and declining the quality of life for everyone.

Worst nightmare??? Come on stop being a dramatic!! Also try living an apartment with shared walls and a bunch or people living next to you, above you to the side of you then come back here to fake cry.

Grow up.

Where do you live? Let's see how you like of the home next to you goes from a single family to now 5 families parking 8 cars now all in the drive way and in the yards and throwing trash all over the street in front of your house..let's see how much you'd like it.

But it's not the home next to you. You said it was down the street and next to your neighbor. I get it, though. What does your neighbor intend to do about it?

It's still a home on the same block, dimwit. One sh!tty house ruins the character of the neighborhood and home values. Then next house flees and then the next. Now the enitre area is a ghetto dump with cars parked all over lawns, trash in the streets, and crime increasing. That affects long time residents. Of course you're probably too dense to comprehend it..

We have a multi-family house on our street. One guy there edges our lawn and some other lawns for free. I guess we are lucky as a recent visitor commented on how nice the lawns look.

A multi-family home doesn’t have to mean there will be more trash, etc. I don’t love what they do with their backyard so am strategically planting flower bushes.

My neighbor in the multi-family home actually came over and helped us dig a hole for a flower bush.

Maybe they will get the hang of things. If they are from another country, they may not be aware of expectations here.

How is your comment relevant? She didn’t say she hates all multi family housing. She is complaining that her neighbors leave trash and park on other people’s lawns. Like most people, I’m sure she’d be fine with a good neighbor.