Four St. Bonaventure University seniors were forced to begin finding different living arrangements Sunday as their landlord evicted them from their Allegany apartment.
Tenant Porter Barrington, a biology major, said the landlord, Boomer Ottenbecker, told them during Thanksgiving recess he was tired of waiting for them to hold a kegger and asked them to be out of the Fifth Street apartment by Tuesday.
“We were shocked he waited until the end of the semester to do this, but I mean, what can you do?” Barrington said. “He obviously wants a rowdy bunch to live in the house, and we just aren’t that kind of people.”
Barrington and his roommates, Bradley Cook, Thomas Rochez and Cameron Volk, made plans to stay in a friend’s apartment three doors down from their former residence until they found a new residence.
“We just always go to our friends’ parties instead of having them here,” said Cook, a psychology major. “We told Ottenbecker we were planning on having a party for Cam’s and my birthdays in January, but he said it was too little, too late.”
The four roommates said they had planned their apartment to have a reputation as a party house, but their difficult semester schedules prevented it.
Sources said Ottenbecker, a 28-year-old Allegany resident, is a notorious partier who still tries to live out his college years by attending his tenants’ keggers. The three houses he rents to St. Bonaventure students are owned by his parents, Roger and Bernice Ottenbecker of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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