Anonymous wrote:I'm in Arlington, and these types of houses always give out full-sized candy bars at Halloween, according to my kids.

I’m in Arlington and lived next to a house of 5-6 young 20s military guys for several years.
It was never an issue or a disturbance. On the weekend they play country music and play beer pong and darts in the yard. They didn’t play music loud or late. They didn’t drive fast on our quiet side streets. In fact a house of renters was better than a house sold for a year down that begets a 12-18mo construction project.

OP my son lives in a fraternity house in another state and they love the woman next door. They shovel her driveway in snow and help her out. She doesn’t complain about parties and bakes them cookies. It is possible to coexist.

I feel ya Op, would feel the exact same way if it happened on my street.

Anonymous wrote:It’s not that house but close. I’ll DM you if you have an account. To be clear I’m not looking for trouble; just trying to understand the law and seven kids/young adults is a lot on our street.

It's really not a lot. They haven't even done anything yet. You don't know if you would even ever notice how many tenants the house had if you didn't know. You're just a very controlling person with a healthy sense of entitlement that causes you to lose track of appropriate boundaries and act in ways that you would consider inappropriate if others did them in a different context.

This happens in College Park but there are noise ordinances and a department that handles that. I’ve dealt with some issues with students. I think a lot of people here have never lived next to young adults who tend to be pretty negligent.

You'll have babysitters

My friend's kid lived in a house where owner had 16 students sharing a 4,000 sq ft , 10 bed/7 bath home. He was earning $900/person.

Jeez, give it a chance. For the first several years we lived in our home (and also before we arrived on the scene), a huge SFH just around the corner from our house was rented by a rotating cast of 8-10 college students. They had literally one party a year, and otherwise were perfectly low key neighbors.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s probably illegal to have that many unrelated people in one house. Depends on jurisdiction though.

And your neighbor is an idiot. Plenty of people want to rent single family homes right now.

Where do you live?

OP; we're in Ward 3.

Of course you are.

It’s not that house but close. I’ll DM you if you have an account. To be clear I’m not looking for trouble; just trying to understand the law and seven kids/young adults is a lot on our street.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s probably illegal to have that many unrelated people in one house. Depends on jurisdiction though.

And your neighbor is an idiot. Plenty of people want to rent single family homes right now.

Where do you live?

OP; we're in Ward 3.

So am I. This is likely illegal. Owner most likely doesn’t have the correct legal certificate of occupancy

Is this the house on 41st St NW by chance? Post back. We’ll help you. That owner needs to sell

Anonymous wrote:Mainly a vent. This is in a neighborhood of 3 and 4 bdrm SFH's, 2100-2600 squ ft on avg, 1.3-1.6m, families with kids, etc. While neighbors' tenants are his business, I'm really dreading the start of the school year. This is my first SFH purchase in the DC area. Fifteen years of condo living and tolerating shared walls, noise, etc. Nothing to do but move, obvs. But I'm bummed.

We moved to a very quiet street in Chevy Chase DC that had this problem a couple years before we bought. Our neighbors told us about the lady across the street that had rented out to AU undergrads for a few years who threw lots of parties. The neighbors called the police on them a lot, and eventually the owner had to get different tenants. She rented to 70 year olds that were wealthy enough to rent that house to be close to their new grandbaby. They were only there on weekends - it was such a relief for everyone. I hope your neighbors turn out to be problem free, but if not I'd say you can call if they're throwing keg parties past the noise cutoff time. Good luck.

Did you buy in Burleith or right down by Georgetown U. Those neighborhoods have had student groups houses for decades. I lived in one in the 90s. They were actually there before you bought.

Unless the law has changed since 2015 when this article was written, apparently the limit is six if unrelated.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/03/11/how-many-people-can-you-cram-into-a-d-c-group-house/

If you are in AU Park - there typically is an AU email that comes out to keep relations +.
There might be a # to contact in the case that there are issues. After the incident that was on the news a few years ago with the house on Van Ness - they wanted to make sure things stayed a lot calmer.