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[quote=Anonymous]NO!  Lawyer here.  If the kids break any of the owner's rules, you are liable.  If any of the kids dive off the deck (and they do) and break their neck you are liable.  If someone starts vomiting and is taken to the hospital you are liable.  If someone dies from alcohol poisoning you are definitely liable.  Doesn't the lease say that YOU, the leasee will be on the premises?  I own a rental house and my paperwork specifically states that adults will be on the premises, occupation is no more than six including adults and no large teen parties.  If you break any of those rules you are liable.

Bad bad things happen at these parties.  I had a friend who was paralyzed from the neck down when he went through the front windshield "while on a run to the market" even though he was seated in the back.

For what it's worth, the principal at our local public of 2200 said at a PTA meeting, "About this time of year your kids will be asking you to sign leases for beach weekend.  I am advising, no, begging, you to not do it.  It opens a host of problems for the kids, the high school, and the parents. You son may be telling you that 'all the other parents are doing it' but I, as principal, can tell you that they are not, and that not ALL the seniors are going to beach week.  Please do not sign those things and please discourage beach week participation."  And as to the comment about about this particular group of friends and precedent for avoiding most teenage type trouble - that's not the issue - it's the drunk slamming into their car and ejecting a member of your house party. It's a friend of a friend who shows up and rapes someone.  It's someone producing a knife or gun.  It's another friend producing drugs followed by a raid and there you are in your nighty at the Rehoboth Police Station explaining that you had signed the lease but weren't present.  AS a lawyer, it makes no difference to me if you are back in D.C. or next door.  If you are not present to see these things happening on a lease that you've signed, you are negligent.[/quote]

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