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It started off as just a noisy party next door. But when it went on for days, David K. Blum called his friend who lived in the apartment, and was informed the friend had moved.

The partying continued for over a week, when on a whim Blum searched Airbnb and found an ad for the apartment in question.

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“My heart sank,” Blum told the Montreal Gazette last week, “because I saw the pool table, which is what I had been hearing — I didn’t know what it was — and the foosball table. More importantly, I saw four beds in one bedroom.”

Almost a year later, Blum and other neighbours have endured near-nightly disruptions from the locale advertised on Airbnb and other sites including Booking.com, Expedia, Travelocity and Hotels.com as “Le Bachelor Party Loft Vieux-Montréal” and variations thereof, which “can accommodate up to 16 people” at $1,000 per night.

“The first time I found (the ad), the description was crazy,” Blum said. “It was like, ‘Come party till the early hours of the morning.’ It was bonkers.”