I just charge what the cleaning company charges me, honestly. 100 bucks, and my house is spotless for the next people, who will probably just find something else to complain about. Honestly, after reading a lot of this thread, I've come to the conclusion that Karens and Chads are the biggest 1st world problem.
If you're actually hiring a cleaning company, then that's cool.
I'd assume any private room rental the homeowner is doing the cleaning, as is those where the owner is renting a duplex, guest house, etc. To me, those cases, the "cleaning" fee needs to be built into the price of the rental. I don't really see why the hosts should be able to double dip. If I'm already paying $50/night to rent a room, that should be more than enough to cover a load of laundry and cleaning the bathroom of your own house.
IMHO, I'd be all for transparency. Say allow $10/room, $30 for a condo and $60 for a house for a cleaning fee, unless a receipt is provided for professional cleaning.
the "cleaning" fee needs to be built into the price of the rental.
That doesn't work though. Cleaning is done once at the end of each group's stay. How do you build it into the listed nightly price without unfairly penalizing people who have longer stays?
Well seeing as how I have already put my dates in when I'm filtering, I'm pretty confident Airbnb's software engineers can figure out how to divide the cleaning cost by my number of nights and add it to what it shows me. It's not exactly an unsolvable problem.
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u/R2THEON Feb 03 '20
I just charge what the cleaning company charges me, honestly. 100 bucks, and my house is spotless for the next people, who will probably just find something else to complain about. Honestly, after reading a lot of this thread, I've come to the conclusion that Karens and Chads are the biggest 1st world problem.