I guess you haven’t been around many chihuahuas 
Ferocious little ankle biters those things can be. My 70 pound husky-type alpha female, who loves to terrorize other female dogs, slinks away when approached by one of those little yappers.
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My very first dog EVER was a chihuahua terrier mix. He was so ugly he was cute. Poco was his name.
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Check your alert & volume settings. My ring will only alert motion if I’ve set it to and there is a separate alert volume setting. This means even if set to tone motion alerts, if the volume is low, I won’t hear it
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Now that sounds quite plausible. And he either thinks she’s still there, or he got addicted to beating off in the bushes while fantasizing.
While it wasn’t scary creepy, or really kinky, when my daughter was 17 and living on a small island off Vancouver Island, she had a guy who was my age, who she thought of as a friend who she’d sometimes stop by to visit and smoke a joint with, write her an 8 page letter about how she was the woman he’d been looking for all his life, blah, blah, blah. She was 17, he was 55.
Similar things happened to a few girls her age up on those islands. One was actually being stalked- the guy would show up wherever she happened to be until her dad saw him walking down the road one day when he was driving, stopped his car, got a baseball bat out of the trunk and told the guy he wouldn’t hesitate to use it if he ever came near his daughter again.
These older guys were what we referred to as “bushed”- they’d sit in their cabins out in the boonies, smoking dope all day and having these ridiculous fantasies about the cool young women around.
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Interesting. So you have a Ring doorbell. I have a Nest…sounds like I should have gone with Ring. It was a tossup.
So…on Nest cam, I can turn off “motion” alerts, which would cut down on “zone 1” alerts, aka front porch. (I’m so close to the street the “zone 1” ‘sound’ and ‘motion’ alerts come in every time a car drives by or or headlights hit my porch, a person walks down the sidewalk, etc.) And thats a friggin’ LOT.
The ones I’m interested in getting are “Person Zone 1”. I’m not seeing where I can filter for this. But…there must be somewhere? Any NEST experts out there? I must say Nest is a phone battery killer, but I’ve learned to live with it.
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Gaahhhhhhh. But this IS the most plausible explanation I’ve had. Maybe he found his “Sweet Spot”!!! Thanks @Muddy , because I’m struggling to understand this whole thing.
A million years ago when I was in college, a peeper cut a screen down the hall from me and came in the room while two women slept. Field hockey players. Sticks close by. Yep he got hurt.
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However much monetary compensation you offer them won’t stop them leaving an honest review of their experience if that’s what they want to do @yecatsr
@yecatsr You’ve done a great job trying to figure this out and can’t imagine the stress of this situation.
In seeing the house now, so close to the sidewalk and the bushes are really not that big, it makes for an even odder situation.
Wonder if the cops have a plan to try to catch him or they’ll only come when called?
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I’m not an expert in the field but it is an area of interest as my bachelor’s degree is in criminal justice and I taught govt for decades. Based on my knowledge of urban (this is Denver) PDs, there is no effin way they have the time or resources to devote to a stake out for a peeping tom. If they were to link him to other violent crimes or property crimes, maybe. But for this…no.
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Well, it’s a little late for this thought, but this is a publicly-accessible site. A pic of the house has been posted. It probably would be easy for someone to identify it and make a click bait article “Airbnb Peeping Tom Spies on Guests, Eludes Law Enforcement.”
Maybe this thread should be private/deleted?
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That’s what I thought, yet they don’t want the host to post photos. Guess they just hope he’ll go away.
I guess that’s up to the OP.
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Motion- sensitive sprinkler like one used to deter deer, etc? Hire someone to stand watch with a pressure washer?
I’m only half-kidding-
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Reminds me of my husband. We had a neighbor that walked his dog in front of our yard and would not pick up the poop. So one day my husband waited for him, once he saw him and the dog, he manually turned on the sprinklers. The neighbor and poor dog got saturated! Then my hubby set the timer for 8 AM since that’s when the guy walked his dog. Never had another poop incident. Maybe Yecatsr needs to threat this creepy guy the same way.
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Annet my BEST dog ever is my current Chihuahua/Cairn Terrier. Amazingly good manners & disposition. A friend called him”the ugliest dog I’ve ever met” when I first adopted him ( he was a mess, so we didn’t let it hurt our feelings 
He’s actually totally adorable and she’s been apologizing ever since!
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We have an unwritten rule here that if you post about your pet’s looks you have to post a picture. 
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Here it is! Posted early in this thread. Great minds think alike!
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I think that he is targeting your home because it has a camera and he enjoys the thrill of it. Maybe danger turns the creep on.
I would not offer the guests anything but apologies.
I would add an alarm that allows you to talk to the intruder. I would also write formal letters to the HOA board, police and, if permitted, post photo and info in common areas or lighting posts of your community. I would go door to door with this picture; once the neighbors are aware, they may also pressure police to do a stake out and catch this pervert.
Peeping toms have been known to escalate their behavior so his actions may seem harmless today but may move on to more brazen conduct.
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I’m not worried about it at this point. Unless someone really thinks I should be. I’ve already posted to nextdoor.com to 5,500 neighbors who know the basic location. In for a penny…That post is getting tons of traction with lots of volunteers to help out, and keep watch.
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