I lived in off campus apartments for about 3 years during/after undergrad and I landed an awesome 2md floor of an old house, with lots of windows, high ceilings, a huge bedroom with a bay window, and OFF STREET parking.. The neighbors that lived downstairs from me were college freshmen who were excited to have a party house. They had lied to the university, saying they lived with their parents 45 minutes away, so they could opt out of student housing. They chose to live in an area that was quiet and mostly grad students or townies. When they partied, they were the only ones at that noise level/obnoxiousness.

The boys got really drunk and liked to throw beer bottles at my Jeep. They mowed the lawn with a weed whacker. They broke into my apartment for food. One quiet Sunday morning I heard the boyfriend yelling at the girlfriend and she was crying and begging “no.” Their dog had stopped barking too which made me fear he had gotten serious. I called the cops and by the time they got there he had smashed her computer and left. I could hear through the floor, the police knock and ask if she was ok. She said yes and they left. She started sobbing.

After that she was a lot nicer to me but I actually started to feel unsafe. I told them to cut it out, the loud music and everything, and they laughed. I found out that the couple on the lease was actually engaged and that she worked for the university as a parking lot enforcer (writing tickets). I finally reported her to the university for lying about residency. They asked if I'd be willing to testify and I hesitated but said yes. They had a trial or something since they all had lied in Federal documents, and she had lied as an employee too. They were able to keep the apartment but they had to pay all the $$$$ they would've paid for living in the dorms for the year as well. Things got a lot quieter after that. I guess they didn't have $$$ to spare anymore for beer.

My landlord was one of my professors and he knew they were freshmen and he rented to them anyways. When he started funny business with me because I wanted the toilet to stop overflowing when I took a shower and vice versa, I said, “hey I wonder what the university would think if they knew you rented out to freshmen who were supposed to be living in the dorms, and that in your leases it specifies this rule AND you have the student say which year they are.” The students had lied to the university but not him. :D