Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I don’t understand the motivation here either other than to cause problems and you don’t sound all that distraught.

This was a really crappy thing to do, especially because this rental has no impact on you whatsoever.

Anonymous wrote:All y'all blaming OP for being somewhat upset they outed a greedy, rule-breaking landlord should STFU. Just because you're broke doesn't mean you should be subjected to overcrowded and/or poorly regulated housing. Those policies exist to help renters from exactly this sort of crap. So, yes, in the short term, the current tenants (who are renting illegal units) may be asked to relocate. But future tenants would have access to properly regulated rental space.

It's not OP's fault someone else was being shady af.

Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with you? Do you even live in the neighborhood? I could see complaining if you lived next door and were bothered by a frat house throwing constant parties. Why on earth did you email the President to get these people in trouble??

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t want this in my neighborhood either. Why buy in an HOA neighborhood if you’re going to be disrespectful of its policies?

I feel sorry for the grad students in this case, but why is everyone standing up for whatever greedy, absentee “investor” is doing this?

I think PP w all the nonsense about “managed” students was referring to Chinese people? Does that change the calculus for PP and make these actions more acceptable?

Anonymous wrote:Illegal Investor houses are artificially inflating home values and therefore restricting op’s buying options. Op is absolutely in the right to expose this. Why would you feel sorry for an out of state investor ?

Anonymous wrote:Illegal Investor houses are artificially inflating home values and therefore restricting op’s buying options. Op is absolutely in the right to expose this. Why would you feel sorry for an out of state investor ?

Anonymous wrote:Have been keeping an eye on a neighborhood I like very much, where properties rarely come on the market. It's adjoining a university but is solidly SFH of a wonderful vintage. In a casual hopeful browsing of recent listings (none for sale, of course), I did spy a rental, but on a university website for grad students looking for housing. Was intrigued and opened the link. Is being rented out on a room by room basis, targeted to university grad students. I looked up the ownership and it's owned by out of state owners, and surprisingly, it had sold last fall for a tidy sum.

I sent the link to the neighborhood president and said this doesn't seem legal. A few days later I got a response, they were not aware either and have notified the city, who confirmed it's not a legal situation and zoning caps house to just three unrelated people but house is also not registered with city as a rental either and to be registered as a rental it needs to meet certain requirements etc cetera. Housing inspectors are being deployed as we speak.

So... someone is getting into trouble, potentially expensive trouble. All because of me. Can't say I feel rosy about it. But for any wannabe investors out there, be really careful and know what you're getting into before you decide to invest in renting a house in a family neighborhood.