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Can you tell me more about what you mean by "airbnb jerks have subjected me to" ?

Honestly, my family and I use airbnb pretty frequently, and I would like to think that we're considerate guests... but, maybe there's something we're missing? What makes the guests next-door to you bad ones (or great ones) ?

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I was referring more to the owners than to the guests. Most of the guests are polite and quiet, although it's impossible for them not to wake me up when they're leaving with their luggage, which is 3-4 times per week. This simply wouldn't happen with longer-term tenants. But it's also due to the way the neighboring property owner set up their Airbnb. Essentially, they spent 2 years building a tall, narrow cottage directly up to the property line, using every available inch of their yard, which blocked off my terrace from the sun. This is allowed here under loosened building restrictions because of the acute housing shortage, but the intent of the scheme was to provide more housing for local working families, not additional airbnb income for absentee landlords. So after they put me through a couple years of construction and loss of the sun, they rented their main house to long-term tenants, posted the cottage up through a management company for $300/night and f*cked off to Europe. And now I wake up to people leaving, and again to someone knocking and saying "housekeeping" every weekend.

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