Two friends and I moved into a house off campus when I was a junior at Iowa State University. We were all a bit afraid of our landlord, a gruff middle aged man who was "all business" when we signed the lease. He gave us a lecture about paying the rent on time and maintaining the house and appliances. We weren't really supposed to, but during the fall semester, my housemates and I threw a party. We sent invitations to many friends and told everyone that we knew to come to our house on Fri...