DH and I are thinking about leasing an apartment just to get in a good schol district

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To address the financial question, I wonder if OP wasn't planning to sublet the rented apartment.

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Anonymous wrote:Guys an apartment runs 2,000 a month. With that kind of money, the OP has better options than rent an apartment. This is a troll post. If you had 2,000 a month, 24,000 a year, extra to spend to get your kid a good education, is there any way in hell this is the choice you'd make? No, you'd use that money to buy a house in bounds with it or you'd use it to go private. This is why you could actually do this and never worry about getting caught - because no one would do this so the documents provided are more than sufficient.

NP. We like our house and don't want to move. Our child currently attends a private, but when there have been times when we were looking at different schools, we included public schools as an option with the idea that we'd rent an apartment to meet the residency requirements. If you like your home and your neighborhood and are just looking for different school options, moving doesn't make sense unless you absolutely have to.

Well, in order to legally meet residency requirements, you do absolutely have to move.

Because you say so? OP absolutely needs to meet residency requirements per DCPS or DCPC. If you aren't satisfied with their residency requirements, believing the bar to be set too low, you need to lobby to raise the bar. Many would be in favor of that, self included, but as things stand, if s/he obtains the requisite residency verification documents, and could get through a residency fraud investigation initiated by DCSP and/or her school principal, the family is in the clear. Maintaining two homes in the District isn't illegal as long as one's taxes are in order.

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OP, to make the number work for such a scheme you'd need to buy an investment apartment in your desired boundary and then rent it out. Otherwise you're flushing $24K minimum down the toilet and at that price you might as well go private (or just move).

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Anonymous wrote:We wouldn't live there. I know you are technically not supposed to do this, but have people gotten caught? We can't afford to buy in our targeted district.

Yes some have been caught. Others haven't.

But you will be teaching your kid to lie. People will ask where you live so start practicing now.

+1 Do you realize how far you're going to have to involve your kid in this scam? Playdates, birthdays, 1st grade 'essays' about "my neighborhood" ?? Are you really prepared to constantly remind your kid that they have to pretend they live in boundary??

There was a famous column in the Post about (cross-border) residency fraud, in which during a lesson on DC history and civics, a boy in the classroom asked "Which ward is Landover in?" !!!

(The real answer might have been "Ward 9" aka PG.)

And you assume he wasn't curious what ward his grandma lived in?

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Anonymous wrote:Guys an apartment runs 2,000 a month. With that kind of money, the OP has better options than rent an apartment. This is a troll post. If you had 2,000 a month, 24,000 a year, extra to spend to get your kid a good education, is there any way in hell this is the choice you'd make? No, you'd use that money to buy a house in bounds with it or you'd use it to go private. This is why you could actually do this and never worry about getting caught - because no one would do this so the documents provided are more than sufficient.

NP. We like our house and don't want to move. Our child currently attends a private, but when there have been times when we were looking at different schools, we included public schools as an option with the idea that we'd rent an apartment to meet the residency requirements. If you like your home and your neighborhood and are just looking for different school options, moving doesn't make sense unless you absolutely have to.

Well, in order to legally meet residency requirements, you do absolutely have to move.

No, we don't have to move. A parent and children may have to spend some time in an apartment (Monday - Friday when school is in session, at most), but we don't have to move.