[anoncoward111]

What you are describing is precisely the same situation I had when I lived in an apartment building next to a long-term tenant.

She simply didn't give a shit about the noise and trash she generated and all of us had to deal with it. The landlord didn't care either.

The police told me to deal with the landlord, because the noise wasn't at 3AM and wasn't "an event" like a concert. But her music was loud enough to shake my walls such that pictures fell off of them.

The town never returned phone calls. I simply vacated the apartment and told the landlord he would be more than welcome to sue me in court for the remainder of the lease.

Strangely, he never did, but I have a feeling that I would have had a hard time defending myself in court.

Though it is an unpopular opinion, I now feel that single family homes might be peferable to apartment buildings, if the caveat is that "the town and police will not do anything about anti-social behavior" as it is so rightfully called in the UK.

[duxup]

We actually limited the % of units that could be rented out in our association as well for the same reason (we actually allowed exceptions based on need (have to move fast and can't sell and so forth), and actually approved those 100% of the time, it just rarely came up).

Long term rentals can have problem tenants too, but long term rental owners at least had way more leverage over their rentals than short term (who really in our case didn't give a damn).

[munk-a]

I think one of the differences is that long term rentals can establish a pattern of bad behavior by the tenant, a short term rental may constantly be in a terrible state but no one renter has committed enough repeated offenses to warrant a citation. The correct answer here (and with a lot of modern society) is that sub-contracting is not an out, the owner of the property has ultimate control over who rents from them and can put in the time and effort to vet people even if they're just staying for the weekend, it's just viewed as an unreasonable cost so people ignore it.

[vladgur]

In most cases, thats not true.

Its very straight forward and quick to evict a short term renter for violating terms of the lease(noise violation etc).

Whereas its a lengthy and pricey process to evict a long term tenant in many jurisdictions

[acct1771]

Went from unsurprised at your lack of success, to surprised after seeing the list, back to unsurprised after seeing "UK"...

[anoncoward111]

I live in the USA and it happened in the USA. Studied abroad in UK and thought the term was fitting :)