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Cleaning
10 posts on the RentTools blog tagged Cleaning.
Short-term rental laundry: in-house machines vs a service
What a turnover's laundry really costs in-house versus at a service: per-load math, the extra linen set a 48-hour turnaround forces, and the real crossover.
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Pet fee math for short-term rental hosts: when allowing dogs actually pays
A worked breakdown of pet fees for Airbnb and Booking.com hosts. Cleaning premium, damage rate, conversion uplift, and the per-listing rule for setting yours.
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Linen inventory for short-term rentals: how many sets per listing
How many sheet sets and towel sets you actually need per short-term rental — the laundry-cycle math, the dryer bottleneck, and what new hosts always get wrong.
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Late check-out fee policy: what to charge, what hosts actually collect
Worked math for late check-out fees on Airbnb, Booking.com, and Vrbo — hourly vs half-day, when to comp the first hour, and the same-day-arrival cliff.
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Early check-in fee math: when to charge, when it's free money
Worked math for early check-in fees on Airbnb, Booking.com, and Vrbo — the prior-night-vacant rule, what to charge, and why high occupancy kills the supply.
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Consumables cost per stay: the line every host forgets to budget
What toilet paper, coffee, and soap actually cost you per Airbnb turnover — the itemized per-stay breakdown, bulk-vs-retail unit math, and three occupancy scenarios annualized.
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Cleaning schedule automation for short-term rental hosts
How short-term rental hosts can automate the cleaning schedule. Replace paper notebooks and shared Sheets with a cleaner-role workflow that actually scales.
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Setting buffer days right: stop back-to-back cleaning chaos
How to pick the right cleaning buffer days for short-term rentals. The revenue-vs-quality tradeoff, the math, and a per-property rule that scales.
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What to pay your short-term-rental cleaner: per-clean vs hourly
Per-clean, hourly, and monthly-retainer cleaner pay math for short-term rental hosts at 5, 10, and 20 stays a month — plus the contractor-classification trap.
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Check-in and check-out times: the turnover window math
The gap between checkout and check-in is your entire cleaning window. Worked math on turnover time, cleaner cost, and when to block a buffer day instead.
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