Several students will pay for this past weekend's block party in Harrisonburg.
Property managers are fining students hundreds of dollars for violating the terms of their leases, but some of those students are calling the fines "unfair."
Some people at the massive party may be fined for criminal violations, but Will Harvey and his roommates face fines from their landlord.
"When you get mad at people what do you do? You hit them in their wallets," says Harvey.
He got a letter Wednesday from the property managers of Forest Hills Manor. It says each roommate owes $500. Combined the people living in the apartment will pay $2,000.
"Now, just because we live here, we're getting slammed with the fines, and we all look bad even though we really didn't do anything wrong," says Harvey.
Property managers say Harvey's apartment was "packed" with people and that police had to be called.
However, Harvey and his roommate, Farzan Tebyanian, say there were no more people in their apartment than one would find on a typical weekend.
"I thought it was unfair, unjustified. I know [the landlord is] upset, but I do not think we deserve to get that fine," says Tebyanian.
Management declined to be interviewed, but referred WHSV to the lease agreement.
It says, in all capital letters, the kind of party like the one held Saturday is "strictly prohibited." It mentions the possibility of a $500 fine and eviction.
Still, Harvey and Tebyanian say they had nothing to do with the pandemonium that erupted Saturday. Harvey says he plans to go to management.
"If some people want to pay it, then go for it. But I think it's too much for the things we did. We didn't do anything wrong, I think," says Harvey.
Though property managers declined an interview Thursday, an employee says they're meeting with other people in the community and plan to talk publicly about the weekend's events in the coming days.
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