Air Bnb has ruined my life

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There is literally no way out of this situation 😢 other than for us to give up our jobs and relocate in the hope that we can find new jobs and a place to live. There are literally no other rentals available in the area even if we could afford the rents. A mortgage is out of the question as we would need at least a hundred grand deposit.
There are at least 1000 properties listed on Airbnb within a 5 mile radius, many of them would be ideal but the rents on them are extortionate and aimed at tourists we are talking at least a grand a week.
We have lived here for years in a residential complex (well before Airbnb and booking even got popular) we have jobs here and friends here and a life here. It is on the whole fine for 9 months of the year mainly local people living around us who all respect that we are living and just trying to survive.
Then the Airbnb people turn up and every week it’s new people above us below us next to us. The noise is horrendous and probably the worst problem. Being woken at all hours with people rolling suitcases along floors, lifts going up and down, shouting in the corridors and doors banging. It just goes on and on like this for months.
My anxiety with it all is now so bad that I’m having to take medication. The noise just feels constant.
Do people even realise when they are booking Airbnb that these are people’s homes that they are disrupting? Why don’t people go to hotels anymore ?
So yeah there is a huge housing crisis due to the airbnb situation and I’m just a small person in a situation that I can’t change other than to leave somewhere I call home. I suppose my AIBU is am I being unreasonable to feel like a company has ruined my life ?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 ❤️

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.

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 love airbnbs. I’ve stayed in some lovely ones over the last few years. The majority of Airbnbs are above average valued properties. You wouldn’t really get first time buyer stock if you released them onto the market. The housing crisis is about affordable housing for people on lower salaries. The major problem in this country is too many people trying to access housing, hospitals, GPs.

225!!? That’s far more than what I thought. Absolutely bonkers. What are they going to use when they run out of hotels? Probably holiday parks.

There are nearly 10,000 hotels in the UK (more than 225 in Brighton alone). Fewer are being used now to house asylum seekers than under the last government. Get a grip.

There needs to be restrictions on airb&bs, it’s ruined so many communities in the uk and abroad.

But what are the alternatives for tourists? . Hotels are so expensive for us as a family with a boy and girl teens. They can not share a bed or sofa bed now. Very few hotels do interconnecting rooms and it’s hard to find purpose built self catering/ holiday accommodation. We stayed on a euro camp type site in Italy to avoid air B&B but currently looking for a few nights in London and I can’t find anything. Aparthotels seem to be 1 bed and a sofa bed only for an extortionate price. Interconnecting rooms are still is paying for two hotel rooms. I’m not paying £2k for 5 nights in a premier inn!

Too much over tourism in particular places - if it was spread out over a wider area it would be pretty universally helpful. And it is vital even as it is to many places.

Please don't let ignorance feed your prejudice. A hotel near us was used to house refugees. The staff were laid off which is not good for local employment, I agree, but that's not the refugees' fault. But there was no food on offer and they couldn't cook in their rooms, obviously, so they often went hungry as they had very little money and couldn't afford to eat out. No one was cleaning the place and they had no access to cleaning products. The people housed there were very young men, often in their teens, who had been through absolute hell, losing loved ones - parents, brothers, cousins murdered by armed militia. Then travelling thousands of miles frightened, starving cold and alone. Imagine your own son doing that in his mid teens, knowing you or his beloved grandparents had been murdered by thugs, the family home torched to the ground.
Please find some compassion before you make comments like this.

My friend lives in a lovely modern town house in a very industrial small town. Next door to her became an Airbnb. It's mostly used for Stag weekends and the noise levels were terrible. After about 2 years and dozens of complaints, the hosts agreed not to let it to all male groups.

People probably don't go to hotels anymore because they're 'closed' for other 'purposes'...

I don't suppose you travel much then.

Or maybe you are referring to hotels that are housing refugees??

I travel solo and always stay in hotels, much safer than some random apartment in the middle of nowhere. Never mind trying to pick up or drop off the key.

I have 24-hour reception, usually a bar and restaurant I can chat to people either staying or working there, or next door or so and feel much safer than some place out of town. They also have all the information you need to walk or get a local bus or metro to get your bearings to get to a museum, whatever.

AirBullshit and Bullshit has ruined the rental and buyers' market. You even have to clean the fucking place!! LOL. Fuck that! I'm having a break!

These people are exploited by traffickers from their own country and greedy hoteliers/ landlords cash in on this. The hotels are actually paid huge amounts to house these people.

I use airbnb because we need cooking facilieties due to special diets.

Also, once I tried booking a hotel in a city but no hotels seem to have connecting rooms. So if with kids its either all the family in one room or put your kids in a seperate room (not safe) or one parent in each room. not ideal. Hotels really need to be more family friendly.

But I agree airbnb seems to be a major problem. When its too big a proportion of properties, just like second homes, it becomes an issue.

airbnbs may be more lucrative for landlords but they are a lot more work. I was visiting my sister once and she spent a lot of time dealing with her airbnb guests causing issues.

no hotels seem to have connecting rooms. So if with kids its either all the family in one room or put your kids in a seperate room (not safe) or one parent in each room. not ideal. Hotels really need to be more family friendly.

I understand @booksunderthebed. I would hate that set-up too.

The only family-friendly hotels really are in tourist places (think All Inclusive).

Hotels in cities are more geared to individual travellers, couples, business people.
During term-time no families will be staying there.

It is a difficult one. I don't like hotels, and always opt for a self-catering place which I find more relaxing, and where I can prep my own food. Hotels ae too formal for me, and I have to eat out all the time.

Why only male teens? Where are their sisters, mums? Why don’t the women escape these countries?

OP is most likely talking about overs over. Where I am a 300k property requires 30k PLUS 20% + over the home report value which must be paid cash so it actually is very normal to need 100k to buy a basic family home