Yesterday, several cars pulled into the rental cabin. We don't usually fuss about renters unless 1) there are too many of them, 2) they are noisy or 3) are douchebags. Although the booming auto-tune music around 9PM was annoying, it was early and we were tired, so we just thought nothing of it, and figured if it got out of hand, we'd get up and figure it out. We went to bed.
All through the night, the dogs were restless. They were 'boofing' and growling and jumping in and out of bed. The neighbour on the other side's dog (Jessie the abandoned one) was barking hysterically. Finally, at about 3:40 AM, my husband got up because the noise was out of control. There was shouting, cars running, motors revving and other inexplicable sounds. He came inside to tell me that someone had run over our fence. We got up, looked outside again. The kids were trying to get away, and they were backing up, and got stuck in the driveway. Someone couldn't get out so they ran over our fence and left through our driveway.
We called the cops. A policeman arrived shortly after, sending a number of the kids scurrying away. I went outside to speak to the cop and bumped into a kid in the dark lurking in our back yard trying to sneak away from the police officer. A parent had been phoned at some point and was up there before the police officer got there. He was trying to offer platitudes, but honestly I was in no mood for it. A bunch of the kids left, and the ones that remained were quieted down and they went to sleep.
Come morning, our neighbour across the street, angry that he couldn't get out of his driveway because one of the little idiots had blocked it with their POS car, pummeled on the door until someone woke up and made them move the car. I collected the trash thrown into our driveway and put it on the windshield of their car.
I had emailed the rental company Vacasa rentals at 3:45 AM when the really out of control stuff was going, and told them we would be holding them responsible for damages and repairs. However, this morning, the kids' mother came over and yelled at us as if we had somehow caused this. She said something inane about a gang of Mexicans raiding the party, and then claimed that prior renters that already had the lock-box code broke into the party and beat her son up. I don't care what happened. How that has anything to do with us is beyond me. She somehow expected sympathy for her son, how apparently got into a fight. I told her he is responsible for the consequences of his own choices. I told her that I don't care how she handles it through the rental company, but I told her that it was up to them to fix our fence. She was livid that her kids got kicked out by the rental company--acting as if it was excessive of the rental company (and us) to expect them to go. I just shrugged and arched my brows with a look of 'oh well'.
Ridiculous. This has been a disaster since the beginning. Weekend after weekend we are subjected to loud parties, cars coming and going at all hours, people shouting in the hot-tub at all hours of the night and obnoxious idiots trying to justify it. I wish these people would see this as a neighbourhood and not as a camp site. The police officer said that some properties can be classified as 'nuisance' properties with enough complaints against them. Maybe I won't be so tolerant any more. Maybe it's time to get this property classified as a nuisance.
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