A host shared this a while back, and I thought it would make a good subject for discussion.
A host, call her Elaine, said that she had a difficult neighbor , call her Rebecca, who gets upset when anyone parks in front of her house. Elaine has duly asked her guests to please NOT park in front of Rebecca's house, and has even written that into her house rules. She says that most all her guests comply. She also says that all her guests have been quiet and polite ---really no problems. Then, Elaine had a guest who smoked cigarettes outside of the unit (since smoking is prohibited inside), after which she received an email from Rebecca, asking that Elaine please have the people smoke INSIDE her house, because the smoke was wafting into Rebecca's house with her apparently asthmatic kids and it was too hot for her to close the windows. Elaine then went and asked her guests to please try not to smoke anywhere near Rebecca's house outside, apologized and gave REbecca a bouquet of flowers for the trouble.
Then, a couple weeks later, a guest parked in front of REbecca's house. Her husband wrote Elaine a note asking for the names, age, race, number of guests, arrival & departure times, model and makes of the their cars for all guests. Elaine said that she found this outrageous, and wondered how others have dealt with touchy neighbors particularly in the context of all the news in the papers about cities cracking down on Airbnb and nightmare guest stories. Then Elaine asked for suggestions on how to respond.
What would YOU advise that Elaine do?
When enough people respond, I will write more about what happened next in this real life situation.