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Neighbors of an apartment block where three units are used as Airbnb-style rentals say they are living a nightmare of all-day parties and public sex.
Residents of townhouses valued up at $500,0000 are fed up with what they describe as sex parties, violence, and drug use.
Gunshots rang out from the Westhaven Estates building in west Houston two weeks ago and security cameras caught a man holding a gun walking out.
A couple was also filmed having sex on a balcony on a Monday morning in view of parents taking their children to elementary school just 200ft away.
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Gunshots rang out from the Westhaven Estates building in west Houston two weeks ago and security cameras caught a man holding a gun walking out (pictured)
Neighbors said the frequent partying started on Thursday nights and continued almost non-stop until Monday mornings.
They said it was worse than ever last week when students descended on the building during Spring Break.
More footage showed a woman wearing a thong strutting along a cobbled pathway, and guests at the Airbnb shrieking and screaming at night.
People who live in the townhomes near Houston's Galleria Mall said this was not what they signed up for when they moved into the upmarket neighborhood with their kids.
They are increasingly alarmed by armed people smoking marijuana, which is still illegal in Texas, who block the entrance to their homes with their cars.
A couple are seen having sex on the balcony of a Houston Airbnb in a pixelated image provided by a horrified local resident
A scantily-clad woman was also filmed walking through the neighborhood in a thong. It is unclear if she was one of the two people caught having sex on the balcony
Nancy Rutherford, who lives a street away from the building, said dozens of calls to police did nothing to help.
'It has been a living nightmare. This
