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by surfingdino 765 days ago
Because AirBnB has a process supposedly designed to handle such situations. Also because I was dealing with a nuisance neighbour (loud drug-fuelled parties till 2:00-3:00am on workdays, all day and night on weekends) for four years and the London Met police refused to deal with my complaint unless my life was threatened. The local council had "noise patrols" conveniently scheduled at times when there was not much noise and proposed they install noise measurement devices in my flat to collect evidence as opposed to sending a policeman round to warn the neighbour. His fun stopped when his mates got busted for drugs. He mellowed down all of a sudden.