Advertisement Report: Many parents of UCF students buying single-family homes for kids, selling when they graduate Local realtor explains growing trend among consumers

College students are mixing together with families in many neighborhoods around University of Central Florida, where students are now leaving behind dorms and apartments for single-family homes.WESH2's Bob Hazen found that, a lot of times, parents are actually buying houses for their kids to live in, then selling them to other parents after graduation.“It's the freedom. I like having my own room, I like having a living room, and a kitchen that I can just walk into. We didn't really have that on campus,” said Griffin Kindred, a UCF student.Kindred and his friends live in a house his parents bought in the Brittany Place neighborhood, a few miles from campus.They're part of a trend that continues to grow as UCF grows: Students living in single-family homes in neighborhoods surrounding the college.Mike Wemert, with Wemert Realty Group, said most of his clients see the university as a benefit.“Now, people don't want to live next to a frat house or live next to a bunch of college students necessarily, but usually you see in those neighborhoods, they're kind of isolated more,” Wemert said.Part of the reason students are filling up homes in the neighborhoods is that on-campus housing is extremely tight.UCF officials said it has on-campus housing for 7,900 students, including the new downtown campus.There's room for another 4,200 in university-affiliated apartments off campus, but the undergrad population alone is almost 60,000. That means almost 80 percent of students have to live off campus.Sometimes that can lead to problems, the most common being parking: Multiple cars per house, spilling out of driveways, onto yards, or streets.“What we have is every three houses you're going to see a student from the university,” said Regency Park resident Luis Saltos.Saltos lives in the Regency Park neighborhood. He and his son say the majority of the time the young people renting there are fine, but that college kids will be college kids.“Especially at night time, when they have their parties or they have arguments. And then you have children and they're awakened. And there's profanity,” Saltos said. “Sometimes you wake up in the morning and there's still bottles and solo cups on the ground,” another resident said.In Ashington Park, a few streets seem to be almost entirely student housing.“Sometimes the parties get a little bit out of hand, and parking, but besides that, it's a really nice place to live and it's a safe place to go for a run outside,” Ashington Park resident Riley Toneff said.Wemert says one reason that the neighborhoods remain stable is that many of the owners actually bought the houses for their own kids to live in, along with a friend or two, who pay rent.“Those people are buying it, holding it for four years, and selling it. So as long as we can keep the prices reasonable, can have another family come in and do the same thing,” Wemert said.Wemert also said that homeowners associations play a major role: The most active ones ban multiple-unrelated people from living together. Others keep close watch on student housing.“If they try to put 6 or 8 people into a 3-bedroom, all of a sudden they have 6 or 8 cars sitting there and they're parking on both sides of the streets, and the neighbors get upset and start making phone calls. And the HOA will enforce that,” Wemert said.When there are problems, UCF officials said the school has a neighborhood relations team that works with HOAs, including a website where people can submit complaints.Wemert said his team also tries to let buyers know what they're getting into.“We try to educate our buyers before they move in. So, we know why they're buying the property. The people who really get in trouble are the people who go in there with their realtor, and don't do their homework,” he said.Kindred says where he lives, it all seems to work out.“It seems about half and half. College students and families living here. Which is kind of weird, feels like I'm starting to become an adult,” Kindred said.UCF officials said the school offers guidance to students about how to live responsibly in neighborhoods off campus.The university does not keep track of how many students are currently living in single-family homes.