Life in the Brothers/Sisters houses

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by Freedom

One notion that seemed to always go unsaid was that a corporate living environment like a brothers house or even the FTTA was a fix-all for people. It would cure personality problems, incompatibility with other people, etc, etc.

Looking at these houses from another perspective, we owned a couple houses on the campus for the college students, especially those coming from other LC's. For the most part it was pretty positive experience, but two of our worst tenants were elders' kids.

In both cases, the parents sidestepped the normal screening process, used their influences, and stuck their kids in the brothers' houses, thinking it would somehow "fix" their problem kids. All it did was destroy the moral, and disrupt the house. Later on the other tenants would complain to me, "why did I let junior move in?" I had to explain that elder so-n-so just did what he wanted to do.

One stiffed me for a whole semester's rent, and the other took me for hundreds of dollars worth of damages. Both fathers subsequently ignored my calls and letters to recoup my expenses. They probably figured since the brothers' house didn't "fix" their kids, they should not have to pay for rent and damages.