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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love the $150,000.00 pick up trucks. Plus the group homes [/quote]

We live next door to one of these group homes and it’s pretty infuriating.  It’s not up to code and the owner is renting it out without a rental license to 4 separate families.  It used to be a single family home.  They literally have 6 cars and two large work vans that decrease visibility along the street (safety issue when kids are playing outside).

And yes, the cars are late model, new and not cheap cars.  [/quote]

If it's not up to code, then why haven't you notified the relevant authorities responsible for enforcing code?[/quote]
NP. Because code isn’t enforced when you do[/quote]

Then document the lack of code enforcement and take it up the chain.[/quote]

My neighbors tried this with the two illegally rented homes in our Silver Spring neighborhood.  They are both owned by the same landlord.  Code enforcement is incredibly over-worked and understaffed.  It takes a while for anyone to even come out to the homes.  And, when they finally did, it's quite difficult to prove who actually lives there.  Also, the people are paying cash to the landlord, so no money trail to prove that it is actually a rental.  It's crazy.  The case is currently tied up in the courts.

And, honestly, sometimes in MoCo, code enforcement just looks the other way in these cases.  They know it's not good PR to crack down on these homes for undocumented immigrants, so they just let them slide.  [/quote]

If it's not up to code, who lives there is irrelevant...  code enforcement is supposed to take it up with the landlord.  So again, I have trouble believing this.[/quote]

Of course.  Anything that doesn't fit your narrative must be false.  Interesting way to look at the world, but clearly it works for you.

Get out of your bubble to see what things are like in other parts of the DC area.  Go to Silver Spring, Wheaton, Germantown, Gaithersburg, Aspen Hill, Olney, etc.  Take your pick.  Find a house with multiple unmarked cargo vans or pick up trucks parked, or a SFH with 7 cars parked in the driveway/out front/on the grass.  Look that address up on the Montgomery County real estate tax website to see who owns it and if it it being legally rented.  Or ask a neighbor about the house and see what they have to say.  [/quote]

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