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College Station Rental Registration Requirement Beginning March 1 2009!

By Susan Hilton

Real Estate Agent with CENTURY 21 Beal, Inc.

February 11, 2009 01:32 PM

College Station Requires you to Register Your Tenants? Or Do you have to Register the College Station Landlord? Or Do You Register the College Station Property? Registration begins March 1, 2009 and must be done within 90 days!

Yes!

Registration of the property with contact information so the City can get in touch with the actual landlord/owner is required. This year the fee is $15 for each property. Who knows what the fee will be next year or the years to come. Once the registration begins it will be easy for the City of College Station to know how many properties are rentals (and which ones) to make more mandates if they would like. It will be much easier to find out how many unrelated people are in a property if they know which ones are rented. Did Texas A&M know about the registration? Did they agree?

Is this the beginning of additional regulations of rental properties in College Station? Is this a way to mandate fewer students? Is this good for the city or is it something that will hurt property values? Will this cause investors to look to purchase in Bryan rather than College Station to stay away from more government regulations?

Who knows!

Click here to read the full press release from the City of College Station about registering landlords.

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Gary Woltal

Keller Williams Realty - Flower Mound, TX

Assoc. Broker Realtor SFR Dallas Ft. Worth

Hey there Susan. I am thinking this is driven by the town being such a demographic having so much housing for students. You wouldn't see this in most any other town.

Feb 11, 2009 01:35 PM

Susan Hilton

CENTURY 21 Beal, Inc. - College Station, TX

Texas Aggie Real Estate, College Station Bryan Texas Real Estate

Gary - My concern is what the next step will be. The $15 registration fee is not bad but what will come next?

Feb 11, 2009 01:39 PM

Jim Frimmer

HomeSmart Realty West - San Diego, CA

Realtor & CDPE, Mission Valley specialist

That's an unusual one. Sounds like a good money-maker for the city, though, but I'm thinking like you in wondering what's next. I'm also wondering what the heck it was for other than to make some money for the city to begin with.

Out here one gets in touch with the landlord by sending a registered letter to the owner of record, whose contact address is a matter of public record.

Do you have problems with "mini-dorms" there like we do here? I wouldn't think so since the price of real estate is so much more reasonable there. Just in care you don't know the term "mini-dorms," it's when one crams as many students as possible into a house. Around San Diego State here, landlords like to take these older homes and renovate them by convering the garage into a bedroom, adding another bedroom on top of that, and perhaps putting a granny shack in the back, taking a living room and turning it into a bedroom, etc. By the time they finish, they've taken a three bedroom with a garage and turned it into a seven bedroom. At two students per bedroom, they cram 14 students in there, Then add in a car for each student -- this is California -- and your neighborhood all of a sudden becomes a huge parking lot with lots of mini-dorms.

I could possibly see the new registration requirement as a way to try to control mini-dorms, but even that might be a stretch.

Feb 15, 2009 06:41 PM

College Station Rental Registration Requirement Beginning March 1 2009!

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