A strange car and a large family pulled up outside the house next door today and said family have taken up residence. No real problem with that, they seem perfectly respectable people and their kids are enjoying the garden with its giant trampoline, which is actually quite nice to see.
But it was a bit odd, and sure enough Mrs Beeb has found the house listed on AirBnB as a holiday rental.
The thing that really bugs me... we have been neighbours with the lady next door for 19 years. We exchange news about her now-grown-up kids, take parcels in for each other and write joint letters to the factors about the common grounds.... and yet this was never mentioned - She and her daughter who now lives with her with her two toddlers just went away yesterday and today these strangers appear with no word, no effort to tell us in advance or seek any opinion from us. I think is appallingly un-neighbourly of them to have given us no warning of this happening.
I am looking for the Deed-of-Conditions we all signed up to when we moved in when our houses were newly built... I'm sure there is something in there about short-term lets not being allowed but I'll need to check.
If all the tenants are like the current people then maybe it won't be a problem - but what if a stag or hen party turns up one weekend? I should mention that this a terrace so we share a party wall with them which we know is not terribly soundproof. What recourse do I have for anti-social behaviour by people who might only be there for a couple of nights? Any ideas?