u/No-Panic-5939

Airbnb next door is ruining my sleep

I rent an apartment, and when I signed the lease, I wasn’t told that my bedroom would share a wall with an Airbnb/short-term rental.
I’ve repeatedly been woken up by loud talking, music, and partying at 2–4 a.m., especially on Friday and Saturday nights. It feels like the guests are in “vacation mode” while I’m just trying to sleep in my own home.
So far, I’ve tried:

  1. Emailing building management, who said they would speak with the host.
  2. Knocking on the guests’ door at 3–4 a.m. to ask them to quiet down. Sometimes they apologize, but the same issue happens again with the next group.
  3. Calling local non-emergency services and filing noise complaints. I have case/reference numbers, but the problem continues.
  4. Contacting the Airbnb host directly, sometimes in the middle of the night after being woken up. They usually say they’ll contact the guests.
  5. Recording the noise and my interactions when asking guests to quiet down, and sending those recordings to management and Airbnb.
  6. Reporting the Airbnb listing directly to Airbnb.
  7. Airbnb itself has honestly been very unhelpful. Responses have been extremely slow, and at one point they told me they couldn’t view the video evidence I sent. Overall, it felt like there was very little urgency or interest in actually resolving the problem.

Management and the host often respond by saying that the particular guests involved have already checked out. But that completely misses the point: another group arrives, and eventually the same thing happens again.
My sleep and quality of life have taken a serious hit. I’m exhausted from having to knock on strangers’ doors, message hosts, make complaints, and document everything in the middle of the night just to be able to sleep.
I’m now considering taking the issue through my local residential tenancy dispute process, and I’ve already told building management that I’m considering doing so. They haven’t responded to that point, which makes me feel like the issue isn’t being taken seriously.
I’ve been keeping records of the incidents, recordings, complaints, case numbers, and communications.

Has anyone dealt with a similar situation involving a short-term rental next door? Did you manage to get it resolved? What actually worked?
Also, if you’re apartment hunting, I strongly recommend asking whether short-term rentals are allowed in the building and whether any are directly beside your unit. After this experience, I personally would avoid living next to one. The constant turnover of strangers and repeated nighttime noise has been a nightmare, and I really wish I had known before signing my lease.

\*\*TL;DR:\*\* My bedroom shares a wall with an Airbnb/short-term rental, and repeated late-night partying is destroying my sleep. I’ve contacted management, the host, Airbnb, local authorities, filed complaints, documented incidents, and sent recordings. Airbnb support was slow and largely unhelpful. The problem keeps repeating with new guests. I’m now considering formal tenancy-dispute action. Has anyone successfully dealt with something similar?

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u/No-Panic-5939 — 8 days ago