'The neighbor avoided them like a coward': Guy's property is repeatedly trespassed and damaged by neighbor's Airbnb guests

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Sep 14, 2023 2:00 PM EDT

Where is an HOA when you actually need one? Of course, I'm being facetious when I write this because as we have seen so many times here at Fail Blog, HOAs can be treacherous. That being said, someone has to get this dude's neighbor kicked out of the community. Not only was he listing his place as an Airbnb, which is not against the rules of course but I wouldn't want to live next to one, but also he and his guests are consistently trespassing and damaging other people's property.

It turns out, according to this thread which was posted on Reddit's r/EntitledPeople subreddit, the guests were misled based on the Airbnb listing. That listing made it seem like they could go on over to this guy's property since his backyard was adjacent to a much larger beach area than the neighbor's. To make matters worse, every time the guy tries to confront his neighbor about this, his neighbor is off hiding somewhere and is absolutely nowhere to be found. So much for being neighborly!

I suppose this is one benefit of not having a house and instead living in a cramped shoebox of an apartment. No one is going to want to trespass on my "property," if you can even call it that. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions in the comments section. For more content like this, here are some of the top mildly infuriating moments of the week!

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    Plant - Airbnb Neighbor
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    Font - Airbnb neighbor from M O I have a family friend that has water front property, in the end of winter, a new neighbor bought the house next to them. They had asked me to set up a full 4k camera system for them with PTZ cam, since then the cameras have caught- 1.) the neighbor didn't secure their dock during a high current period causing it to hit the friends, making it float away, that cost them $6k to replace. Neighbor just watched it happen and chose not to contact them at all. The neighb
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    Font - 2.) Dumping their trash in the friends fire pit, then burning it, again the neighbor is no where to be found when trying to talk to them about this. 3.) The listing had the friends water toys in it, this stopped happening when the friend started locking them up, as a bonus, the guest (although they stop when told to, can't exactly fault them for being given bad Information) and neighbors love to use the friends beach despite the neighbors having their own. The friends is just bigger and n
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    Font - 4.) After installing the cameras, I was looking and found the neighbors wife walking all around the friends yard, inspecting and trying to mess with them (But we got some vandal and tamper proof ones), to add to this, they seem to use the friends yard constantly when they aren't home to play with their dog and the wife absolutely loves to mess with the sprinkler set up.
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    Font - 5.) The sprinkler system, the wife broke off a head while with it, it was. not pointing in there yard or anything, she just decided to mess with it one day, luckily they're pretty cheap and easy to replace, but C
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    Font - 6.) The guests aren't terrible, however according to the listing it sleeps 5, yet the friend constantly sees tents in the yard with atleast 10-15 people their, aside from being slightly loud past 1am, the guest have been significantly more respectful and friendly then the AirBnB hosts themselves.
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    Font - 7.) They never talk to the friend, every time they have tried to approach them, they just hide. These people are in their 60s, yet they seem to act like children.
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    Font - Any Idea what my friend could do? Talking to them and leaving notes is not an option since they have no interest in communication. It is not an HOA, which I think is why the neighbors think this behavior is ok. It's extremely immature.
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    Font - kiwimuz 16 hr. ago Trespass order and also file police reports for all damages caused, 1.0k Reply Share
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    Font - PDK112 13 hr. ago And a civil lawsuit for the damages. 324 Reply Share
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    Font - SnooWords4839 - 16 hr. ago A cease-and-desist letter to stop trespassing, then call the police when they get into the yard. A barbed wire fence down the property line with no trespassing signs. 405 Reply Share
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    Font - Hillarys FloppyChode OP 16 hr. ago Probably will go with a lawyer and cease and desist, it seems like contacting Airbnb was pretty useless, and they don't want wild life injured by the fence. 288 Reply Share
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    Rectangle - Koolest Kat 16 hr. ago Motion controlled sprinklers with RIT dye...... 378 ♡ Reply Share
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    Font - Welady 16 hr. ago Small claims court for 6k dock loss. 193 Reply Share
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    Font - taloncard815 16 hr. ago . They could try contacting Airbnb saying that the listing is fraudulent and the Airbnb customers do not have any rights to his property 121 Reply Share
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    Font - winstonpgrey. 15 hr. ago Flood lights and a tall Ofence ↑ 89 3 Reply Share
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    Font - The_Sanch1128 13 hr. ago . Let's see. In no particular order-- 1. Cease and desist order. 2. "No Trespassing" signs on the property. Really obnoxiously large ones. 3. Motion sensors triggering loud, bad music, floodlights pointed at the malefactors' home, and sprinklers. Half an hour of Baby Shark, for example.
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    Font - 4. File police reports each and every time, with video proof. 5. Local media coverage if the police don't do anything. Send the local TV stations video, they love that O. 6. Constant complaints to AirBnB, particularly about the number of people occupying the STR.
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    Font - 7. File suit over the dock incident. 8. Have the lawyer used in #1 and #7 research local, county, and state laws about STRs. Get very "letter of the law" about it. Document, document, document.
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    Font - 9. Fencing up to just below the locally- allowed maximum height (if 6' is allowed, make the fence 5'10"). Make sure it's on your side of the property line. Spend a little extra to make their side really ugly, like neon yellow, pink, and green diagonal stripes. If the fence is below 4', sharp tops. 10. Rose bushes or something else with thorns on your side next to the fence.
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