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    Default Non-Family Tenants Occupancy Limit

    My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Nebraska

    My friends and I want to find information on moving into a home in Lincoln Nebraska. We currently have 4 people, and the house we are looking at, which is rent to own, has 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.

    The landlord said she overheard someone mentioning you couldn't have more than 3 non-family tenants living in the sameplace.

    I want to know if this is true. I tried looking for some documentation on this online but haven't been successful. Could someone direct me to some information on this? Thanks.

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    Default Re: Non-Family Tenants Occupancy Limit

    It is true. These are normally local ordinances at the town or county level. You can ask the town "code enforecement people" of the area involved who can give you more details.

    The purpose of these ordinances is to prevent illegal homing houses, particularly ones catering to illegal immigrants. In areas near college towns, they don't want landlords to rent to large groups of rowdy students for parties.

    As an example, my dad had a rental with 4 bedrooms, and some years back, he felt sorry for "Vietnamese boat people", so when a family of five came by, he glady rented them the apartment. Then later, he got reports from neighbors that there appears to be dozens of people coming and going at all hours.

    My dad decided to take a look, and on numerous occasions, was denied permission by the tenants to enter. Finally, an emergency came up, he went in, and found five rooms with two bunkbeds each, enough for 20 people.

    At the time, our city had no laws against this, so the neighbors can't really do anything. They were however, violating the lease, so my dad did not renew the lease, instead of evicting.

    Unless someone is violating the law, the town cannot regulate these situations unless there is such a law. On the other hand, if what you have LOKKS LIKE a nice family coming and going, and you don't plan on having two bunkbeds per room, no one is going to give you a second look.

    Putting it another way, the town wants to have a law to enforce if things go out of hand. In your situation, you can also say that two of the four are cousins, and who is going to check on that, if ONLY FOUR people are involved. Another way to stay out of trouble is NOT parking cars in front of other people's homes, as is normally the case when TOO MANY people occupy a house.

    So, the question is, is there enough parking for four cars??

    As a matter of fact, a tenant of mine told me he was going to report a neighor of too many unrelated people in a house when they started parking cars in front of his house. Other than that, he said he couldn't care less how they are related.

    The law is written such that it makes an exception for "related people" because a large family of eight cannot find a place to live otherwise.

    You can't make a law outlawing "families" larger than four, right??

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