Just made someone's life much more complicated, oy vey

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP checking in.

I can't exactly say what prompted me to start this post beyond that it was a slightly surreal moment realizing you'd likely made someone's life complicated in just a few minutes of emails. But I am amused by the responses and getting some proper laughs from them.

There's no shortage of student housing surrounding the university and adjoining neighborhoods are predominately group homes for the students so I'm not losing sleep if several grad students have to move. I was intrigued by the suggestion that perhaps parents of a student had bought the house, but the listing clearly describes five furnished bedrooms for rent in a five bedroom house, so who knows what the story is.

Asking rent was $1000+ per bedroom. If a family had bought this house with 20% down, monthly PITI would probably be $4k. Food for thought. The neighborhood association prez was not pleased by this discovery. Understandably. I doubt people would have issues with a homeowner renting a spare room in the attic to a grad student, which likely does/has happened as most surrounding owners are faculty. But buying a house in this neighborhood expressly to rent it out as a group home is a different story. So I don't feel guilty in the long run. If that was the intention of the buyers, they had several other neighborhoods nearby where this could have been done. So they're learning a lesson.

You are learning a lesson, too. This will be of no help to you, and you will feel like a douchebag for a long time. Enjoy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Troll. Nice work!!

This will be a DCUM first but I am praying you are correct; I need this to be a troll. If this is for real, I'm scared and deeply sad.

Op here. Why are you scared and deeply sad because I reported what might have been an illegal group home?

At a minimum, a non-licensed rental property means it's not subject to city regulations governing the safety and wellbeing of rental properties and leaves tenants at the mercy of unregulated landlords. Is that a good thing? Perhaps I did a service? Who knows.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP checking in.

I can't exactly say what prompted me to start this post beyond that it was a slightly surreal moment realizing you'd likely made someone's life complicated in just a few minutes of emails. But I am amused by the responses and getting some proper laughs from them.

There's no shortage of student housing surrounding the university and adjoining neighborhoods are predominately group homes for the students so I'm not losing sleep if several grad students have to move. I was intrigued by the suggestion that perhaps parents of a student had bought the house, but the listing clearly describes five furnished bedrooms for rent in a five bedroom house, so who knows what the story is.

Asking rent was $1000+ per bedroom. If a family had bought this house with 20% down, monthly PITI would probably be $4k. Food for thought. The neighborhood association prez was not pleased by this discovery. Understandably. I doubt people would have issues with a homeowner renting a spare room in the attic to a grad student, which likely does/has happened as most surrounding owners are faculty. But buying a house in this neighborhood expressly to rent it out as a group home is a different story. So I don't feel guilty in the long run. If that was the intention of the buyers, they had several other neighborhoods nearby where this could have been done. So they're learning a lesson.

You are learning a lesson, too. This will be of no help to you, and you will feel like a douchebag for a long time. Enjoy.

It's time for me to say goodnight. I'm off to bed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP checking in.

I can't exactly say what prompted me to start this post beyond that it was a slightly surreal moment realizing you'd likely made someone's life complicated in just a few minutes of emails. But I am amused by the responses and getting some proper laughs from them.

There's no shortage of student housing surrounding the university and adjoining neighborhoods are predominately group homes for the students so I'm not losing sleep if several grad students have to move. I was intrigued by the suggestion that perhaps parents of a student had bought the house, but the listing clearly describes five furnished bedrooms for rent in a five bedroom house, so who knows what the story is.

Asking rent was $1000+ per bedroom. If a family had bought this house with 20% down, monthly PITI would probably be $4k. Food for thought. The neighborhood association prez was not pleased by this discovery. Understandably. I doubt people would have issues with a homeowner renting a spare room in the attic to a grad student, which likely does/has happened as most surrounding owners are faculty. But buying a house in this neighborhood expressly to rent it out as a group home is a different story. So I don't feel guilty in the long run. If that was the intention of the buyers, they had several other neighborhoods nearby where this could have been done. So they're learning a lesson.

So it is a 5 bedroom, and they are asking $1k a month per room with PITI $4k.

Their expenses, maintenance, etc are on top of that. You think they are making bank on this? You are delusional and also psychotic to be invested in this…. but they are probably more delusional for thinking this will make them money.

[Anonymous]

Ehhh. Housing regulations are made for a reason. People have died because of illegal rentals (such as basement floods or lack of fire escapes) not to mention occupancy limits are created due to parking and other considerations.

This is one of those scenarios in which this particular house isn’t likely to cause too many problems (assuming it’s not a slum rental). However, as I tell my kids when they try to skirt the rules on things, “what if everybody did this?”

What if everyone suddenly turned their home into an unlicensed rental? Why are these owners entitled to not follow the law?

I do feel bad for the tenants. The rich owners have really screwed them over by not having an above board lease. I don’t blame OP for this. If it’s posted online they were bound to get caught someday.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP checking in.

I can't exactly say what prompted me to start this post beyond that it was a slightly surreal moment realizing you'd likely made someone's life complicated in just a few minutes of emails. But I am amused by the responses and getting some proper laughs from them.

There's no shortage of student housing surrounding the university and adjoining neighborhoods are predominately group homes for the students so I'm not losing sleep if several grad students have to move. I was intrigued by the suggestion that perhaps parents of a student had bought the house, but the listing clearly describes five furnished bedrooms for rent in a five bedroom house, so who knows what the story is.

Asking rent was $1000+ per bedroom. If a family had bought this house with 20% down, monthly PITI would probably be $4k. Food for thought. The neighborhood association prez was not pleased by this discovery. Understandably. I doubt people would have issues with a homeowner renting a spare room in the attic to a grad student, which likely does/has happened as most surrounding owners are faculty. But buying a house in this neighborhood expressly to rent it out as a group home is a different story. So I don't feel guilty in the long run. If that was the intention of the buyers, they had several other neighborhoods nearby where this could have been done. So they're learning a lesson.

You are learning a lesson, too. This will be of no help to you, and you will feel like a douchebag for a long time. Enjoy.

It's time for me to say goodnight. I'm off to bed.

Enjoy your dreams. Keep thinking you are a hero for saving the world from poor grad students!

[Anonymous]

op well done, you possibly financially ruined someone, maybe a family with a sick kid looking for a passive income while they cared for them, maybe an elderly person without any other resources.

slow clap for the fascist feck

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I don’t understand the motivation here either other than to cause problems and you don’t sound all that distraught.

This was a really crappy thing to do, especially because this rental has no impact on you whatsoever.

Duh she is hoping the owner will sell and she can buy it

The kids who are living there or planning to live there next year are now screwed and are going to have to scramble

This was my initial thought for the rationale too. Really effed-up thing to do. Op has a very mean spirit.

But why should an out of state investor benefit from an illegal rental (who knows if they’re even paying taxes or meeting safety codes) instead of the house being on the market for an actual individual to purchase as a potential primary home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I don’t understand the motivation here either other than to cause problems and you don’t sound all that distraught.

This was a really crappy thing to do, especially because this rental has no impact on you whatsoever.

Duh she is hoping the owner will sell and she can buy it

The kids who are living there or planning to live there next year are now screwed and are going to have to scramble

This was my initial thought for the rationale too. Really effed-up thing to do. Op has a very mean spirit.

But why should an out of state investor benefit from an illegal rental (who knows if they’re even paying taxes or meeting safety codes) instead of the house being on the market for an actual individual to purchase as a potential primary home?

Exactly. I’m team OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I don’t understand the motivation here either other than to cause problems and you don’t sound all that distraught.

This was a really crappy thing to do, especially because this rental has no impact on you whatsoever.

Duh she is hoping the owner will sell and she can buy it

The kids who are living there or planning to live there next year are now screwed and are going to have to scramble

This was my initial thought for the rationale too. Really effed-up thing to do. Op has a very mean spirit.

But why should an out of state investor benefit from an illegal rental (who knows if they’re even paying taxes or meeting safety codes) instead of the house being on the market for an actual individual to purchase as a potential primary home?

+1 These are the homes that usually don't keep up on the maintenance either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you this nosy of an twatwaffle in real life?

You are positively giddy you "outed" someone.

Get a life.

This. Who does this kind of sh**. OP is a troll or needs a life (actually OP needs a life either ways since trolls don't have anything better to do)

[Anonymous]

Ok, Karen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:op well done, you possibly financially ruined someone, maybe a family with a sick kid looking for a passive income while they cared for them, maybe an elderly person without any other resources.

slow clap for the fascist feck

More likely that they wanted to evade taxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:F**k rich people and the games they play anyway. I reported an ex landlord and feel not one ounce of guilt about it. I also report you boundary cheaters stealing from DC and regular households. F all y’all.

OP sounds like a rich manipulative piece of work herself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP checking in.

I can't exactly say what prompted me to start this post beyond that it was a slightly surreal moment realizing you'd likely made someone's life complicated in just a few minutes of emails. But I am amused by the responses and getting some proper laughs from them.

There's no shortage of student housing surrounding the university and adjoining neighborhoods are predominately group homes for the students so I'm not losing sleep if several grad students have to move. I was intrigued by the suggestion that perhaps parents of a student had bought the house, but the listing clearly describes five furnished bedrooms for rent in a five bedroom house, so who knows what the story is.

Asking rent was $1000+ per bedroom. If a family had bought this house with 20% down, monthly PITI would probably be $4k. Food for thought. The neighborhood association prez was not pleased by this discovery. Understandably. I doubt people would have issues with a homeowner renting a spare room in the attic to a grad student, which likely does/has happened as most surrounding owners are faculty. But buying a house in this neighborhood expressly to rent it out as a group home is a different story. So I don't feel guilty in the long run. If that was the intention of the buyers, they had several other neighborhoods nearby where this could have been done. So they're learning a lesson.

So it is a 5 bedroom, and they are asking $1k a month per room with PITI $4k.

Their expenses, maintenance, etc are on top of that. You think they are making bank on this? You are delusional and also psychotic to be invested in this…. but they are probably more delusional for thinking this will make them money.

OP here. No. I was thinking the same as you. That if someone bought this as an investment, they're not being very smart, which is why I do wonder what the full story is behind the house. Possibly they bought it with the intention of moving in then something changed and they couldn't and are thinking they can rent it out as a group house for more money rather than a SFH rental because based on the scant rental data I have for SFHs, this would probably rent for 3500-4000, below the hypothetical 5k+ as a group. Mind you, if they took out a conventional mortgage then they're probably in trouble with the mortgage company sooner or later because mortgage rates are different for properties bought as rentals.

Sooner or later the illegal group house would have been discovered and reported. House closed last December. I'm not feeling guilty and I'm laughing at the hysterical people on here thinking I deprived poor students of housing. I doubt most of you own houses in family neighborhoods.

I really am not cackling and being gleeful. I do feel sorry for the owner if he or she thought they were just making a decent investment near a university and didn't do their research carefully.