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I've lived in the same house for the last 25 yrs. my wife and I raised our kids in this house. When we bought it, everybody had little kids. Over the years we had people move up and others move in. Some people held their houses for rentals and those people who lived in the homes first normally made good choices in who they rented to, and usually there wasn't any issues. We've had some students who've had bible study groups and parked all up and down the street, who would get upset for anything like that. The exception came when we had some kids move in 5 boys in a 4 bedroom house, so we had 4 trucks and 1 car on days their girlfriends weren't there. I can't tell you how many times I would pick up cans on Sunday mornings some days even one of the boys would even help pick them up. I never complained, no one called the cops, I figured what the heck, I went to A&M, the boys were being boys, and they weren't that loud. That changed their last semester. They got a couple of new roomies one with a couple of mean dogs. They had a party, forgot to close the gate, and the roomie let the dogs out. I'm standing in my yard picking up cans and the two dogs make a bee line into my yard and attack my daughters cat. They maul the cat. We tak the cat to the vet school and long story short we get a 1200 vet bill and ultimately the cat dies. The boy that owned the house told my wife the we should have shot the cat. Put it out of their misery and they refuse to pay the vet bill. Tells me he's graduating and I can forget ever getting the vet bill. Two weeks later I'm mowing my yard and a couple of cars pull up. One is a parent looking to buy the house for his kid the other is the realtor. I ask the parent, is your son planning on living here or are you moving your family. I'm told the boy. I told the parent the previous owners used up all the good will from the neighbors. We will call cops. The guy got in his car and left. The next day the owners mom drove down from North Texas to ***** me out in my driveway. I had to go to small claim court to get the vet bill. Bottom line this is a college town and renters are expected, but if shown respect we can be friends and coexist, if not it's not my first rodeo.
This. I've had students as neighbors and we got along great with rarely a problem. But I've been around this town for a long time and have worked around companies who manage properties and ones who do repairs between semesters. Students in general aren't good tenants and they aren't good neighbors for families. The idea that families in BCS shouldn't desire to have other families around them has to be the silliest thing I've read anywhere on this site in a very long time.
