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group of _permanent_ residents enacted ordinances in order to stem a decline in real property value due to loud parties, poor maintenance and slovenness by students. They are trying to enforce _their own_ ordinances as best they can. Please tell me that you would not be concerned if a large number of residences around you became rental property and subsequently became messier, more poorly kempt and had a negative effect on the value of your most precious posession - your house and land. This is not Big Brother, it's a community trying to protect its own property.



What is it is an exercise in futility and putting the value of property before the value of people. In any case it will be just as useless as things like rent control in New York City or any other regulation that tries to control property values. In most cases houses become rental houses because they were low value to began with therefore they can be rented to low-income tenets like college students. As a house-renter I am tired of being snarled at by neighbors simply for living where I do (I never cause problems or have wild parties BTW). It's not my problem their property values might be lower- most home owners that complain about rental houses have run-down houses themselves and should not be complaining about others from what I've experienced.