It’s back to school with off campus student party houses…still Villanova for the most part and still in Mount Pleasant in Tredyffrin and surrounding area. Tredyffrin, Radnor, and Upper Merion all involved last night….
The scanners tell snippets of the tale and last night and again it was Tredyffrin PD, Upper Merion PD, and Radnor PD.
Upper Gulph Road, Old Eagle School Road, near Woodland School, West Valley Road, Mount Pleasant, Upper Gulph and Arden Roads and tell me again are these new dorm locations or just Villanova University off campus student animal house rentals?
So will these municipalities pretend that there is no problem, especially Tredyffrin?
Only time will tell.
Residents are fed up already and it is not even Labor Day.
It’s always the same old story. People understand that college kids want to have fun, except the college kids that rent these off-campus student rentals, seem to have a distinct lack of respect for the surrounding area. And it’s kind of sad because it would take so little effort for them to get along with their neighbors and just be a temporary part of the community that gets along with their neighbors, instead of causing problems. And Villanova needs to be more on top of this as well.
However, it’s not just the kids and the school which need to be held accountable. You must include the rental slumlords, who own and are renting these houses who also need to be held accountable by these municipalities. I am always amazed how all these houses pass rental inspections aren’t you?
All threats on this topic are reported to police and Villanova’s own security department.Just like last year.
Last night I published a post about essentially being harassed by someone from a Villanova University IP address leaving comments on this website. This was after I had written about what is going on in Mount Pleasant again in Tredyffrin’s panhandle.
Overnight I received yet another comment which, once again has an IP address the tracks to Villanova University.
Of course, I am always surprised that it seems like the Tredyffrin Manager Bill Martin does not deal with these off campus party houses because he previously also worked in Radnor Township, so he is aware that the problems are real, and not just made up.
I will also note that there are plenty of off-campus student rentals where the students get along very well with their neighbors. But there are still houses that are the exception to that rule. One of those houses is 985 Mount Pleasant Ave. in the Tredyffrin side of Wayne.
This property is now in an LLC but it still looks like it’s the same owner. I think probably this house goes from word of mouth to word of mouth from school year to school year. it probably originally started as somebody getting a house off campus for their kid while they were in school, which is common practice around the country. But then sometimes people sell these properties when the kids are out of school. Other property owners often decide to keep these properties as investments.
So I’m getting these messages. The first message came with a real email address with the first comment. Next with the second comment it was a fake email but related IP address, now there is this comment with a fake e-mail address but another related IP address.
This all went to Villanova, and the Dean of Students along with what was sent yesterday. And again this is over an off campus animal house party house that I wrote about over the weekend is located in Tredyffrin. Again, the comments are coming as per the IP searches from Radnor Township, so that’s presumably main campus. If the comments persist, I can go to Radnor Police Department and file a report. They are aware of this. BUT…
Yes there is a but. And it is in my decision making process.
Villanova is a rather expensive school these days, and this person sending the comments has been sent to this very expensive school by two hard-working parents. If I file a formal police report, this is something that could follow this commenter around as he is graduating and looking for a job. It’s all fun and games to be an internet gangsta, but the reality is something not grasped about behavior like this.
This commenter is close to if not 21 already. But over 18. They don’t have very much life experience so they don’t realize that this is not his parents’ glory days of college. No one wants a kid that parents are spending hard earned money on to not be able to develop to their full potential after graduation, right? But this behavior needs to stop. And even Villanova knows that.
So I am giving Villanova University the opportunity to deal with this. In turn for the time being it gives this internet punk a gift he may not deserve, but perhaps his parents do.
However, it is time for Tredyffrin Township to deal proactively with the problems of these off-campus student houses. The neighbors do actually have rights even if Tredyffrin seeming likes to pretend Mount Pleasant doesn’t exist.
I see you residents of Mount Pleasant. You all are dealing with so much including with the really horrible development that keeps happening. This is an area that deserves respect and their history as well.
As for the rest of it? Gosh here’s hoping that some day kids living in off campus housing and their friends coming over to party realize that it takes so little to be a decent neighbor while they are living in these neighborhoods.
Villanova did reach out to me today and promised they are looking into this. So I will see what happens. I am not trying to be unfair. But these kids have to behave better off campus while they are guests in our communities and leaving comments like this wherever is simply unacceptable behavior.
