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I’ve heard some serious horror stories about people who live in apartment buildings and have had neighbors turn their places into Airbnb rentals.
All night parties, loud guests, folks constantly going in and out at all hours…
It’s rough!
So you can understand why the guy who wrote the story below is about to blow his top…because he’s dealing with a lot of headaches.
Read on, and see what you think about his situation.
Airbnb upstairs turned my life into absolute hell.
“We bought an apartment last September.
We renovated it and moved in at the beginning of the year.
It was supposed to be our dream home after years of renting. But we wanted to get out of that last place too fast and we didn’t think everything through properly.
It’s a beautiful historical building. The neighbors are all older people or families with kids (they live on the topmost floors so we don’t hear the kids at all).
There’s one problem…
Well, everything is great except for the jerks that decided to run an Airbnb in a building that already has lousy sound isolation.
They turned their flat into miniature hotel rooms, so every single room has its own bathroom and kitchen. I can hear their water running every single time they turn the water on in the shower.
I suspect it also deepened the problem with the sound isolation, and I reported them to building control, but it’s been a month and nobody responded.
This sounds horrible.
And the guests are rude and entitled. Most days they don’t even know where the Airbnb is and they try to enter my home. They make noise with their suitcases, or by moving furniture.
They come back wasted from parties and are arguing. My chandeliers are shaking from their stomping. In the mornings they hurry to leave.
With how old the building is I expected noise, but there is a noticeable difference between them walking with their shoes on and when they have slippers. I call the police every time it’s loud, but Airbnb guests don’t even open the door. The police cannot do anything without it.
What I just wrote sounds horrendous, but it wasn‘t as bad until now.
Ugh!
Now that summer started it’s been a constant stream of people coming back at 2 or 3 am and acting like they own the place.
In winter it was mostly one or two rooms rented on weekends. And I could usually go to the living room if there was someone above my bedroom, but now the Airbnb is packed every night.
These past two weeks they have been so loud that my stupidly expensive headphones are obsolete. My ears hurt from sleeping with earplugs.
This is really stressing him out.
I’ve been wondering why I have no appetite and keep losing weight. Well, it’s no wonder since I’m constantly occupied with listening to every single noise on the street to see if more guests are arriving.
At the beginning I was so full of life – I was eating homemade meals three times a day, since I finally had a fridge that was big enough for meal prep.
I’m also disabled. It was literally the only flat that was accessible for me. And moving was already difficult, since I couldn’t help with carrying anything.
I just feel stuck here, the fact that I work from home, literally from my bedroom, doesn’t help. I love my work but I wake up tired every night and everything feels like a chore.
I don’t live in America, but in my country Airbnbs aren’t illegal, and they won‘t be because the government just issued a statement that the anti-Airbnb law they were working on is rolled back, so I lost all hope that I had.”
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This sounds terrible!
And I’d be contacting the building owners day in and day out if I were him…
No way he should be dealing with this!
Their dream apartment has turned into a nightmare…