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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/families-accused-in-arts-school-drama-wonder-if-theres-a-prequel/2018/07/22/67c7e9ce-8b6b-11e8-8aea-86e88ae760d8_story.html[/quote]

From this column.  Ridiculous.

"...David Greene is one of the parents accused of residency fraud. “OSSE concluded that we are still residents of Maryland based on the fact that we owned a property there from 2008-2014,” he said in a letter to three D.C. Council members. The investigators told him that his documentation of D.C. residence appeared to be false because “the address on the documentation is a home owned by a senior receiving the homestead deduction.” Greene said he is the renter, not the owner, of the property.

Greene said the sale of his Maryland home in 2014 is a matter of public record. He has had a valid D.C. driver’s license since 2015. He is registered to vote in the District. He got a D.C. jury summons and did his service in June. He has been paying D.C. taxes since 2015.

He is confident that he will be cleared, but what about parents who don’t have his advantages? “I am really worried that there are Ellington families for whom this is and will continue to be an overwhelming burden,” he said. “This investigation not only seems flawed and unfair, it seems mean.”"[/quote]

So he is not renting a legal rental unit - and wonders why there is confusion.   [/quote]

That's on his landlord, not him. How would he even know that his landlord was still claiming the homestead exemption?

Dude did jury duty -- that's proof enough for me (no one would do jury duty if they didn't live in the city), and can produce tax returns.[/quote]

I rented for a couple of years. I've no way of knowing whether my landlord was a tax cheat. That is NOT on the renter. [/quote]

Uh, yeah, so what's the big effing deal in this case, then?  Dude proved his residency, and he's off the hook.  If being required to provide appropriate papers like this constitutes undue hardship...god help us all.[/quote]

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