Tenants Gone Wild, Part 1

[Kerry Baird]

Not even a full moon and my short term tenants in both houses left me messes. 

First guest:  In my pool house, I now have pink speckles decorating the walls and ceiling of the kids' bedroom, walls in the rest of the house and the exterior wall near the pool.  I have no idea what they used, but hair dye or ? Popsicle red dye now adorns the walls and is not coming out. Neighbor tells me that police were called out at 4 in the morning to break up a fight with my guests.  

Second guest: says he is an ER physician in town for "training."  Sounds great.  A neighbor went through the trouble to look me up in the public records, and march up to my door in order to tell me about my next guest.  She told me this ER Doctor had invited guests, the result was that 10 cars were parked on the front yard of my other house, narrowing the street, breaking code and "lowering the value" of her house, two blocks away.  

Both of these are AirBnb guests.  Please chime in.  It isn't all fun and games in this buiness.  :D

[David Bergmann]

I would consider the following (which you may have already done):

• House rules say no gatherings (penalty of $X per person if violated)
• House rules say quiet hours are 10:00 PM - 8:00 AM
• If profile has no reviews / not verified, require they confirm the # of people who will be at the property & ages
• Use a noise monitoring system like Minut or Noiseaware (disclose in listing)
• Use exterior cameras to monitor driveway (disclose in listing)

But at the end of the day, there are still bad guests who will get through and sometimes you just have to file a claim, kick them out, apologize to neighbors, and get the place ready for the next group.