[Obsnold]

Do you want to live somewhere where you have to regularly call the police on your neighbors?

For a permanent neighbor at least you may be able to take some action against them but with Airbnb the people will change every few days or weeks.

When I lived next to several Airbnbs the problem was non stop. Sometimes I could talk to people and they would begrudgingly quiet down but in a few days they would be replaced by someone else and the whole thing would repeat. For tourists they are only there for a few days or weeks but for the people living there it is their whole life.

In my experience as well it's a lot more common to find bad tourists then bad permanent residents. A lot of tourists will be gone in a short time so a lot wont care how much noise they make or by the time they are told or realize they are being too loud you may get a few days of quite before someone new turns up. Most permanent residents have to see each other a lot more and the repercussions for upsetting their neighbor are much more likely.

[cycrutchfield]

Wouldn’t the noise violation go to the property owner, not the guest? I fail to see why involving the police is not a deterrent.

[JacKTrocinskI]

Where I live (Poland) the owner suffers no repercussions, the police can only ticket the noisy guests.

[TeMPOraL]

This is going to be a pretty blow-below-the-belt suggestion for our (Polish) sensibilities, but since I have very little charity for antisocial behavior - especially of the "I profit, I don't care" kind, and doubly so when coordinated by a multinational corp pretending to be a hip tech company: I wonder if the owner is paying correct taxes on the money made from AirBnB leases. It would be a shame if the Revenue Service came and checked.

[gruez]

Considering that airbnb payments come through wire transfer (or SEPA), you'd have to be pretty dumb to evade taxes.

[TeMPOraL]

Yes and no. Are regular AirBnB hosts actually forming businesses, or are they reporting this as private income and hope the tax man doesn't have time to notice?