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New Worry for Home Buyers: A Party House Next Door - NYTimes.com Page 4 of 8 <br /> � Einin}%Jodoin lives next door to that house ���ith l�er family. "It is loud, and there is <br /> li��e music and lcaraolce stuff, and it's all done outside because of the pool," she said. <br /> "The��'re out in front at 4 in tl�e afternoon���aiting for their Uber to come, drunk on <br /> the front lawn." <br /> Homeo���ners had otl�er complaints about guests, including trash bins overflo�n�ng <br /> ���ith beer cans, public urination, catcalling, foul language, racist remarl:s, <br /> companies t11ro���ing e��ents and tl�e appearance of a rainbo��--co�ored ��ainted ��on�-. <br /> "Sometimes, ��-hen they are outside, the}�'re pla��ing beer pong just wearing theii <br /> undei���ear," said Hazel Oldt, age ii, ���ho can see thenl next door from the third- <br /> floor rooftop garden of l�ei•house. <br /> Man�- of the coinplaints result���hen there are�vell o��er six people staying at these <br /> houses. So ho��r do o���ers get a���ay���ith renting to more people than cit��rules <br /> allo���? "Determining ho���many are occup��ing��ersus just��isiting is almost <br /> impossible," Carl Smart, �n�ho is the dii•ector of Austin's code departinent, said, <br /> cllucl�ling as he did so. <br /> What was so funn}�? Had some of the guests been coached to say that they���ere <br /> related? "I think so," he said. "There is no �n�ay for us to disprove or to pro��e it We <br /> could ask them to, but they doi�'t l�ave to, so��e have to take their��rord for it." <br /> KVUE, a local television station, ta�=ed alo»����ith code enforcement officers ��ho <br /> heard from guests at one house that there ���ere tiiplets inside and that someone <br /> else��ras related to a fifth guest by marriage. <br /> http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/your-money/new-worry-for-home-buyers-a-party-... 10/12/2015 <br />