Yes, you can report it. The police will come and investigate.

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Anonymous wrote:If you're uncomfortable with this, buy in a neighborhood with strong HOA rules.

This. Also, vote differently.

This. I live in a HOA neighborhood and while our HOA is really annoying, the tradeoff is I’ve never seen this situation arise and we also don’t see houses in disrepair, overgrown yards, etc. My relatives lived in a really “desirable” area with no HOA (pricier than ours) and they had more issues with these things than we did. One thing that happened there is boomers would leave their house in a prime area to their deadbeat kid and the kid would have all their unemployed friends move in and let the place become a dump.

You need restrictive covenants too just to be safe. HOAs are not enough to protect the neighborhood anymore. Look at the law California just passed capping HOA fines for violations to a one-time $100 fee. This effectively makes HOAs unable to enforce compliance with community standards. A restrictive covenant will provide a backup method of enforcement via private legal action if state law neuters your HOA enforcement authority.
https://hoalaw.tinnellylaw.com/amp/keeping-fines-in-check-hoas-face-100-cap-as-ab-130-is-signed-into-law/
https://www.edhat.com/news/no-new-adus-here-when-california-law-and-homeowner-association-rules-collide/
A restrictive covenant would give you the right to enforce the standards privately with legal action and it would be likely unconstitutional for the state to retroactively invalidate a covenant that was legally valid when it was established.

Anonymous wrote:As long as you bring this same energy to fighting for living wages for all. Nobody loves living in a crowded house.

Disagree. Some people just don't want to live near rental houses, but as long as the rules are being followed, those people need to get over it.

If OP has a sincerely held belief that the rules are being violated, OP should file a complaint and copy the fire marshall and Board of Supervisors (or whatever the elected officials are called in Fairfax).

The above being said, if you don't like it, report it to the county.

I'd say being surly to your unwanted neighbors might work, but this only works if they've not experienced trauma worse than being shunned by you and the fellow neighbors. (see above).

Anonymous wrote:As long as you bring this same energy to fighting for living wages for all. Nobody loves living in a crowded house.

If the home has central heating, indoor plumbing, electricity, and a kitchen with all the standard appliances, then it's luxury.

And if said dwelling isn't routinely targeted and invaded by local blood-thirsty drug cartels gangs looking to kidnap your daughter for prostitution and militias kidnapping/conscripting your teen son, or even at the less extreme end, rogue national police looking to extract monies for protection from you, then it's practically paradise.

Yes, even if it's way more crowded than you would find culturally acceptable.

Houses on my street are very affordable, between $800K and $1M. We have perhaps 15% rentals. Some are to multiple families or are group homes for students. It's just the way it is in the poorer areas with cheap housing. I hate it, but I'm stuck.

The only possible remedy is to call the fire marshal because excess occupancy is a fire hazard.

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Anonymous wrote:If you're uncomfortable with this, buy in a neighborhood with strong HOA rules.

This. Also, vote differently.

This. I live in a HOA neighborhood and while our HOA is really annoying, the tradeoff is I’ve never seen this situation arise and we also don’t see houses in disrepair, overgrown yards, etc. My relatives lived in a really “desirable” area with no HOA (pricier than ours) and they had more issues with these things than we did. One thing that happened there is boomers would leave their house in a prime area to their deadbeat kid and the kid would have all their unemployed friends move in and let the place become a dump.

Hopefully someday the pendulum will swing back and government and private sector employees can work remotely again.
This will spread wealth geographically, and encourage development in less developed areas.
With remote work there is no longer a good reason for most people to crowd into cities.
There are benefits to denser development because it makes per capita infrastructure costs lower, but at high enough densities the benefits decrease since people are forced to live in noisy places disconnected from nature and they develop mental health issues.

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You can report them, but the reality is that this region doesn't have enough affordable housing, and so it's like whack-a-mole. More overcrowded rentals will pop up. This is what happens when neighborhoods refuse to build denser housing for lower income families.

You're really silly. There will never be enough "affordable housing" according to people like you, even though the construction of apartment buildings is never-ending and it seems like every inch of land has been developed. And how do you even know that these people in crowded group housing would even want that housing if it did exist? Maybe they prefer to fly under the radar in these group houses.

Many lower-income people accept that they need to live further away -- it's just how it works. There isn't enough available land so that every low-income person in the entire DMV can have subsidized housing inside the beltway in Arlington and Bethesda.

We own 5 SFH and 2 TH that we rent in 3 very desirable parts of FFX Co. No regrets!

Find out who owns the house. There are tax records. Does Fairfax have real estate search?
Or google the address for realtor info when it was last up for rent.
Tell them the house has a lot of people, is a nuisance. Was that their intent?

You can report them, but the reality is that this region doesn't have enough affordable housing, and so it's like whack-a-mole. More overcrowded rentals will pop up. This is what happens when neighborhoods refuse to build denser housing for lower income families.