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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in one of the nicer 22101 neighborhoods - off GP - and we recently rented out the entire walk-out basement of our 7500 + sq ft house to our housekeeper, her husband, and their three children - who are section 8 tenants.  It is a win-win for everyone.  They live in a great neighborhood, and will send their children to the Ch-C-L pyramid, and we have a live-in handyman and housekeeper available at night, when they have finished their outside jobs.  I think one of our neighbors is starting to get suspicious, and I am certain that they neighborhood would not generally approve, but the family needed a place to live and are truly great people.[/quote]

Is this a troll post? It is not legal to rent out rooms in your house in SFH neighborhoods, unless you are in a "multifamily" zone. [/quote]

Has to be.  Section 8 comes out and physically inspects the unit so they would notice.[/quote]

Maybe PP's housekeeper WAS a Sec 8 renter and now she just rents from PP at the Sec 8 rate instead[/quote]

Yes, we rent out our walk-out basement at less-than what this lovely family used to pay under Section 8.  The mother had been our once-weekly housekeeper for years, when her family ran into some issue with their Section 8 housing.  She asked me if they could please move in for a few weeks until they could remedy the situation, but it worked out well and they asked to stay for a year.  The family is from Guatemala, here legally, and I am a different Latin American nationality, so we get along well.  Any work done by our housekeeper or her husband is paid by us at  rate of $23/ hr.  We also agree to babysit her children once a week for free, so that she and her husband can have a night out.  We always pay them, however, if they sit for our child.  I am glad that our house sits back behind a wall of landscaping, because I can sense that there is a good deal of disapproval from this thread.[/quote]

So, allowable or not, let me fast forward how this can play out over several years. I am from a wealthy town similar to McLean. More people have domestic help than not. And all of the residents of the town who have domestic allowed their help to use the address and enroll their kids in the schools whether they live-in or not. I'm pretty sure I don't have to tell you test scores went wayyyyy down, the entire school system is in jeopardy now - where it used to be a top school system, it's now sub-par.  PP would be a contributor to a similar type of situation. The schools you so highly covet might become crap, and you'll have to pay to send your kid to private. Good luck tinkering with the system. [/quote]

I am sorry, but I do not believe your "tall", "cautionary" tale at all.  I know of barely any local household with live-in help, so you will forgive me if I do not believe that you live in a town full of such households.  DH, DC, and I live in a 7600+ sq. foot house valued at three to four times the average home in the 22101 zip code, and therefore pay three to four times more in property taxes than the average McLean homeowner.  Our housekeeper's children come home to their mother, who works at our house after school tidying up and helping me with errands.  You would not complain if a household paying a third of our property taxes sent their six children to the local schools.  Since we only have one child, please do not complain if we also help our housekeeper send her children.  I am glad that I have not confided in our neighbors and close friends (who know that we have a housekeeper, but not a live-in one).  I am disheartened by the thinly-veiled discrimination on this thread.[/quote]

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