@Nelly0:
Your listing is lovely! I imagine the neighborhood is also beautiful! I hope nothing has escalated from your neighbor since you posted. I had a few questions:
1. Did you have a good relationship with your neighbor prior to you listing the home?
2. How did your neighbors find out you were listing the home with Airbnb? Did you share that with them in passing or did they become aware after a negative incident(s) with a guest(s) staying in your home?
As hosts we try to put ourselves in the shoes of our neigbhors. How would we feel if our next door neighbor's house became an Airbnb full-time? We go back and forth between we probably wouldn't like it to well as long as they were good responsible guests.
As hosts we all hope for the best, however there are times when things go wrong with a guest. With that in mind, we try to be very mindful hosts by reducing the hosting footprint on our neighborhood. For example, we ask our guests:
*to park in front of our home and not our neighbors
*when they walk through our driveway they do so quietly as our neighbor's bedroom is nearby
I wonder if there are "small" things bothering your neighbor that might be an easy fix? For instance, are the guests parking in front of their home? Do they use their driveway to do a 3-point turn? I see that you are pet friendly (so are we) is it a pet issue? Barking, not picking up after their pup?
I ask those questions because I wonder if there is any room to possibly open a conversation with your neighbor to help put them at ease? I'm not sure if this is possible but just showing kindness... take them some sweet treats and try to open a dialogue to let them know you are a responsible host and take extra steps to help ensure your guests respect not only your home by your neighbors as well. Explain you have rules in place and to please contact you should one of your guests do something that is inappropriate. Just some ideas.
It would be unwise for them to send a friend/family to come and ruin your home as there would be consequences. As an added measure of security and for your peace of mind, you can require guests to provide a copy of their ID, that way you have info on the person if they happen to damage anything. The more info you have on the person, the less likely they are to damage. I don't think they will want you to go back and sue them.
Keep us posted!
