Air Bnb has ruined my life

Don't be so fucking ridiculous and use your brain. A quick google search tells me that 225 hotels were being used to house migrants at the start of the year. Plenty left for people to take a holiday.

I think the poster thought that OP was in the UK, and a lot of hotels in the UK now house refugees, migrants and asylum seekers instead of functioning as a traditional hotel for regular tourists.
At least that’s how I interpret what they wrote.

As soon as I read this I knew you were in Spain. Not sure if you have read this but Airbnb have just removed 65,000 listings that did not conform to regulations and I'm sure more are coming. There is about to be a huge crackdown and I really hope that helps you, OP ❤️

Don’t forget the AirBnB rentals are seasonal and not full time. Some hosts may prefer the security of a long-term tenant.

If you are looking to move, there is nothing to stop you contacting a Host and explain that you’d want to live there longer term. They may well accept 50% of the price to have the security of their property being rented all year round.

I feel for you OP, we live in the UK but our City Council is proposing a crackdown on Air BNBs as most properties to rent our Air BNBs now, worsening the housing crisis, ruining the community atmosphere and getting away with not paying business rates. I live quite far away from the seaside properties but even where I am you see many people dragging the suitcases through the streets into a woods near us to get to many of the flats rented out as Airbnbs, it is completely unsuitable area, as it is a residential area and worked better like that for the schools the lifestyle. Even some of the infant schools are closing as the City is turning into a partying city. The council are proposing zoned areas so that holiday lets are limited to a zone.

Love this reform voters dig, when the OP is actually an immigrant another country 😂

I am so sorry OP, what a total nightmare for you. No wonder you are suffering from stress.
I like using Airbnb but I'm going to stop. It's just not fair on local people.

I know some people who rent out their own home and go to their parents or friends as a way to make more income. Not everyone is wealthy for some is a lifesaver in difficult times. If people staying follow some basic rules and the hosts enforced these rules it should be much better.

Oh ffs don’t be silly.
Not everything is the fault of asylum seekers.
Hotels you would want to stay in haven’t been used for this purpose.

Air b&b needs proper license and control. Not helping you now but it's like the wild West out there due to lack of control.

For all the moaning that local people do in places like Cornwall, North Norfolk etc. they don't realise that they themselves have created the problem by greedily selling their properties to those from outside the area for eye watering sums of money.

As a side line we stayed in a lovely little hotel in Sicily a few years back, it was on the upper floors of an old building with beautiful tiled floors, there was a notice asking guests not to wheel their cases because of noise and potential damage to the floors, it was something we'd never consider a problem before.

We've used holiday rentals for years, long before Airbnb came about and would never ever use a hotel again.

There are rules and regulations but you need to see who's the owner of the property and who if anyone they're renting through. Airbnb have become a catch all term for holiday rentals but there are loads of companies and private rents too.

Your issue is with the landlords not the idea of rentals.

It would be bonkers for you to rent an Airbnb for permanent housing, you need to get a private long term rent.

Yes,two hotels near to where I live have been too. One is for men awaiting trial,I have this on very good authority. There seems to be at least 4 or 5 security staff outside 24/7 and I'm told several more inside. Only men reside there. The othe hotel has mostly men staying there and a few women and children, very little security.

I live in a very touristy area of London and London has more tourists than any city in Spain. There are a few airbnbs but they haven’t taken over because there are restrictions in place. There is a limit to the number of nights they can be rented out for which makes it far less desirable as a business model. They are also banned in a lot of blocks of flats.

You need to write to your local government and whoever owns your property. They are the only ones who can do something about it.

Sounds really hard, I think there is backlash around Europe on AirBnB, in Italy they’ve tried to ban remote access, so owners or their agents have to physically be present to meet tourists rather than leave keys in random places. In Spain they’re trying to licence apartments to limit the numbers, but it’s still a huge problem. I hope things get better for you. We need people to be able to live in cities, they can’t just become museums.

That said I use them, I try to be ethical and make sure they meet local regulations and am respectful to people living nearby. People seem to go on holiday and forget their manners.

Personally I'd bang on the doors of the noisy fuckers really early in the morning and complain about their noise. Get in their faces and make their stay as unpleasant as possible.

Aim for them to leave bad reviews so less custom, more peace for you.

I’m so sorry OP - how awful for you. If you’re in or near Barcelona, I’m sure the current Catalonian government are really anti-Airbnb.

Nonsense. People don't go to hotels because they want to self cater, or want more living space or more choices of location. I've never considered a week's holiday in a hotel. I'd far rather rent self catering.

OP I am sorry. That does sound rough. Can you put up signs asking people to be quiet as the arrive and leave? Can you campaign for the rental owners to put down thick carpets so the clatter is less noticeable?

@DrSeuss suggest you read up on the renter reform bill and realise why landlords have left in droves and going air b and b

A lot of people are just selfish little shits and don't care about their contribution to destroying communities. So long as they get their holiday. Because they neeeeeeed it. I say fuck them and the holiday boat they came in on. As you say, what te fuck is wrong with a hotel?

Oh here we go let’s blame immigrants. They get the blame for everything else so why not?🤔🙄OP has said they aren’t in the uk.

This sounds amazing and something other governments could learn from.

People are always going to act in their own self interest. If one person chooses not to use airB&B for ethical reasons someone else will rent it anyway. Regulation is needed and long overdue.

I live in Austria and the province I live in has really cracked down on this. Since 2018 you've had to apply to the equivalent of the planning office for a change of use to rent out properties for short-term lets and the vast majority of them are turned down. The government officials then go on Airbnb and chase up anyone letting out the properties illegally and fine them. There were tax changes too but I'm not sure what that involved. They've raked in shit loads of money and the effect of this has been far fewer new applications/registrations and very large numbers of deregistrations and those properties being rented out as normal long-term lets.
Renting out a room in the house you live in is still permitted as is renting out up to 2 self-contained units within your own home, but you have to be living in the property eg. the annexe a pp mentioned would be allowed.

Airbnb started out as a platform where people could let out a room and travellers could rent that room cheaply. I think that's what it should return to. It's got completely out of control, but local councils etc should have responded faster with new legislation long before it got to this stage.

I've only used it once and that was when I went to Toronto and the hotels were all €400 a night!! I found a lovely room in someone's house (even that was €100 a night). A friend of mine rents out a room in her house and that works well. I think that kind of thing is ok but buying up flats and houses is not.

But all the holiday let/cottage companies aren’t doing the same?! Airbnb is purely another advertising platform. But i agree that ALL holiday lets need to be far more regulated.

Absolutely agree. It’s all air b&b round here and stags and hens all year round. Fucking shit.