Thank you everyone for your suggestions. Here is a little more about the story. In March we got a call from my neighbor saying a bunch of kids are in our Airbnb house. We obtained a video from Snapchat of the minors in the house. They did $3K damage. 6 months later the Juniniles were tried, slap on the wrist. We got $187 in restitution from the Maryland courts. These same kids (2 of which live in the house from the landlord who doesn't care) have cause multiple scares for our guest in the Airbnb, with Decembers guest leaving after 2 days of a month-long booking, where we lost another 1800, which this is not the first time we have had long term guest check out after a day or two in the last few months. For the previous 5 years, we did very well with this Airbnb. Two of the minors took things too far and now are in Juvenile detention 100 miles away. I understand a lot of this is from covid kids out of school etc, but it's sad to see the street I cleaned up 9 years ago go downhill.
@Therese - Great Idea to contact the owner that would clean things up
@ Christine Thank you- Our neighbor runs an Airbnb across the street and he put up cameras 3 months ago that has helped, we have started compiling records of the incidents.
@ Damasco Thank you- I am going to look into a community-oriented policing program, we only have 3 small downtown streets to protect, they are blocked by land barriers from the rest of the town. Yes, they are criminal in nature, but with catch and release Juveniles, they need a lot of marks against them before they are sent to Juvenile detention. (which the group is being thinned out slowly)
@Wayne thank you, we do have proof of misdeeds from the tenant's juvenile kids.
@ John - Thanks for your input. Sell and buy in a better area might be the solution. We have actually started investing in another state for that reason.
Any other input is appreciated, I'll send an update once we figure things out. I hope you all have a very Happy New Year.
