You have a great attitude and I love…
A sense of humour is definitely essential in the wonderful world of hosting!
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Ooo, i think i missed that part where she said “quiet weekend”. Then she lied on purpose. She knew it would not be quiet weekend. I cant stand when people lie. I would deffinitely write her a review saying just that. Thats not ok to mention the “quiet” weekend just to get approved and then make so much noise. It s disrespectful.
I have learned with the separate house that i i am not going to be renting again for a few nights stays. ussualy it means some kind of celebration, and guests make so much mess and damages that its not worth it. Then i was loosing other days of the week because i would not come up in search.
I rented now to corporation for 4 months and its the best renters ever. I never hear from them, within 2 months they called me twice about the pool being a little moldy and about not functioning ceiling fan. I get my check (top pay) exactly on the due date, not even a day late. These guys are awesome. I also helped my friend to rent her house for additional crew they brought in.
Vacationers are too much work and risk.they can party somewhere else but not in my house. I put my minimum now for 7 days, and i hope i will rent to workers again.
Haha! Glitter is the worst. My rental is in New Orleans and I actua!ly have a no glitter rule in my contract. I’ve found random brightly colored feathers in the strangest places, though. Once between the mattress and box spring!
It’s,really,hard when the guests pass,themselves off as quiet. How was I know,that the following enquiry would end up in so distress and damage:
“hi, K, we are two quiet professionals from Portland looking for some sun. Is your place available?”
You can go on and read the rest of this nightmare guest story on the bad guest lounge. 
I’ve also told it here ad nauseum.
great wording, will pinch it if you don’t mind.
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Since you followed the rule, and asked in advance, I will grant permission! 
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Don’t feel that having a rule allowing no visitors will lose you bookings. Unless you are in a market that depends on locals renting your place, then hopefully you will have enough tourists to fill your calendar.
Visitors in general are going to treat your place like a hotel room. I ask each and every potential guest if they will be having any visitors. I have to pry this information out of them. Sometimes I approve and other times I don’t. I had a recent couple with their 1 child rent so they could attend a family renunion. When I asked if she would have any visitors she did reply that she would like to invite over her parents and sibling/in-law for dinner one evening. I made an exception to my max 6 guests at all times rule. She assured me the rest of the family was staying at hotels, and other rental houses.
Another time someone replied back saying they would like to invite over more than 20 guests for a few hours (in town for a wedding). She said “I know you don’t allow parties but this isn’t a party.” - No.
If you are concerned about repercussions then just say:
So and so led me to believe she and her friends were going to have a low key “pamper” weekend. Unfortunately I received complaints from the neighbors due to their excessive noise. I asked the girls to quiet down, and they continued to party. She told me it was only five of her friends, however, I learned she had many more people over. Although they removed all the beer botttles, streamers, bunting, etc., they left the floors covered in glitter and pink feather fibres. I still cannot remove all the glitter."
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I have a very strict rule about no visitors to our home. Sometimes I lose bookings, and sometimes they ask very nicely if so and so could come over. I usually grant that exception. But someone at the home I manage didn’t ask and had friends playing corn hole on the fairway of the golf course out back of the home at 1:30 in the morning. Unfort I didn’t hear about that until a month later. Grrrr
I turn it around to a positive.
ONly your registered and approved party allowed on property or in the apartment.
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aahh yes, too many No…No…No…
haha yes, we can all pretend that we were poor Lala with these guests!
I may have a solution to guests having a party in your house. My little house has had a lot of my own parties in it so I thought I would open it up to guests who want to entertain or host a small event. This is in my description:
“If you would like to use the house and/or garden to host a small reception or event (maximum of 20 people), I charge $100/hour, plus a $200 security deposit.”
Several people have been interested but so far no one has hosted a reception, etc. BUT, if you included something like this in your description, and someone had a party without scheduling it with you, including paying you, you could charge them your printed amount. Just knowing that they could be charged may just eliminate any parties.
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Also add, “a highly offesnive pornographic Polaroid image was found under the bed. I’m glad I didn’t clean it with my children in attendance. Sorry. can’t recommend, these guests disrespected my home and broke the house rules,mthinking I would not notice.”
Also, can you mention about how you observed the apartment from the outside and saw the bunting and everything?
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lala, it just so happens that i had a very similar problem about a year ago and knew that asking guests to respect the neighbors & quiet hours was going not going to prevent situations like this. i also am a bit more remote than you are to your rental. i needed to be able to remotely monitor noise at my airbnb w/out violating my guest’s privacy. a year ago, i set out to create a custom IoT device that would do just that for me. after teaming up with an incredibly smart electrical engineer, we designed the tool and added features like quiet hours and noise thresholds for notifications. we loved working on it so much that we created a company to mass produce it – enter NoiseAware.io 
Now that NoiseAware is available, I’m excited to share it with my fellow Airbnb hosts. If you would like to connect with me (especially if you want to share crazy guest or crazy neighbor stories!), please do not hesitate to reach out! david@noiseaware.io
FROM OUR MARKETING MATERIAL:
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Installing a NoiseAware sensor is quick and easy. In just 5 minutes, you will connect the sensor to your property’s WiFi, set quiet hours, customize your property’s noise sensitivity and choose your notification preferences. With NoiseAware protection, you can relax knowing that you will be immediately notified if the noise level at your property exceeds your quiet hours setting. Your neighbors will thank you.
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Very cool product…
Wasn’t another host looking for something just like this? @hypertokyo? It is very cool!!! Don’t quite need it in our type of set-up though!!
I don’t need it either but this along with exterior cameras could save remote hosts many headaches!
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So expensive art and antiques- definitely a security deposit and really I wouldn’t let a guest near them if at all possible.
Hello fellow hosts ! I am an experiencied host from France : we often rent our holiday house on the French sea coast, and the main thing I want to avoid is welcoming guest who launch a large party.
I had bought the Minut sensor but after one year I have canceled the subscription because I find too expensive.
My questions are :
- is there a device that is an alternative to Minut or NoiseAware, which sends you alerts if loud noise is detected or a lot guest connected to wifi ? I mean a device + app which does not request a monthly fee … a bit like the Scout Security products (you buy the devices, no annual fee)
- is there a way to use my Minut sensor even if I cancelled my monthly fee ?
- what would be other options to prevent parties ? (I already put 2 oudoor cameras so I can see if many cars are in the street or if many people use the main door)
Thanks for your tips !! Raphaël
I don’t have the answer to your question but thought I’d mention that noise monitors are affected by the new Airbnb policies on cameras and other recording devices. So whatever you do, you are required to inform your guests.
Of course, disclosing these devices acts as a deterrent to parties.
You can also monitor how many devices are connected to your wireless and simply turn off the wireless if you suspect a party. Party goers can use their data plans and hot spots but it might help. This is something else that can be disclosed in advance to discourage large gatherings.
Smart locks on doors that inform you when doors are locked and unlocked.
Extra guest fees. If cameras show added people arriving you can send the guests a request for added payments.
Ask your neighbors to keep an eye out and let you know if there are issues with parking or noise.
The best thing is having someone on site or nearby that can go over to the home on short notice.
Finally, this is an eight year old thread so I am going to close it to further comments. After you reach a certain trust level based on positive contributions to the forum you will be able to start your own threads.
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