My interpretation of your OP was that you are very proud of yourself for screwing up the living situation for these students, but you know that you can't tell anyone IRL, because they'll think (correctly) that you're an awful person. So. you posted here to brag. At least you're now being honest. How does it feel to be a sociopath? |
OP, if your post was on "X" [former twitter], this would be known as being ratioed. |
Not quite true. I told the neighborhood association prez, who is a friend of a friend, which is why I had her email handy. And DH and I talked about it over dinner and speculated the reasons for the house. You know, normal conversations by normal people. Shrugs. |
I'm on Team OP. The landlord is breaking the rules and likely skirting on taxes too. We have rental laws so people - like low-income students - have safe housing that is properly up to code.
All the landlord needs to do is register the home as a rental, bring it up to code, and pay the correct tax rate (likely higher than owner-occupier rate). He didn't want to do that because he's greedy. I don't actually think OP did anything wrong. And I don't think the landlord will sell the home, as the transaction costs are too high. He will just need to spend the money to get the house inspected as a legal rental. |
+1 |
"normal conversastions by normal people" aren't usually giddy and joyful about getting people kicked out of their homes. Sick. |
Are you being gleeful and you absolutely deprived students of housing. You also clearly aren't familiar with US university housing. If the owners live in a distant city, bought the house last year, and are charging rent that basically cover their costs, it is highly likely that the owners are the parents of a student who lives or has lived in the house. This is very common around college campuses. Sometimes the kid has graduated, and the parents keep the house for a bit because they have another kid coming along, or they don't want to pay the transaction costs of selling so quickly. In any case, the child of the owners is living in the house, and has several unrelated friends renting rooms, it sounds legal under your description of the local ordinances. It's beyond me why you would want the people in this neighborhood to have their first impression of you be that of a tattle-tale. I hope the neighborhood President checks it out and finds the house isn't an illegal rental and realizes that you're a mean busybody before you even move into the neighborhood. But it's ok if it's not legal, because there's a 95% chance that, despite what the President said, most of the neighborhood is going to think that you're a jerk, anyway. Welcome to the neighborhood! Not to mention -- "I doubt most of you own houses in family neighborhoods"? This arrogant, meanspirited statement tells me all I need to know about you. |
Don't worry karma will eventually catch up with you. |
I would be be worried about karma. |
I hope you mean the OP. |
The rent is too low. |
She is too dumb to make a story whole. |
None of your behavior is "normal," Karen. |
No. We just don't think OP is entitled to that house. |
For me it’s less that OP did this, and more that she felt the need to post about it here. |