Airbnb owners - how hard is it to get cleaning people

Find a couple reliable Mexicans or Asians that mostly just need the extra money and only work for you.

Location means a lot here, but generally speaking I can tell you people complain about cleaning fees but the reason they are high is because they don’t understand the cost to get someone there within a 2-3 hour period guaranteed to start and get it cleaned before check in. You have say 6 hours from 10am check out to 4pm arrival, whatever someone says they’ll do the job for add 50% or more to it to “guarantee they’ll get it done.

Or else you need to plan on not doing any back to back nights which loses money, or have an alternate.

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airbnb is an insane amount of work and a gigantic pain in the arse. Way easier just to rent it long term

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Just get a management company and let them deal with it

We use it to own a vacation home. We had a small lake house that we used part-time and rented part-time. Was not too hard to find cleaners. We typically rented it on weekends and stayed in it ourselves on midweek days. We sold it for a nice profit after 3 or 4 years, and bought another one that is much nicer and more expensive. We have not rented it much in the couple of years we have owned this one, but plan to start renting it more often soon. We hired the lady that was cleaning another airbnb near us. Wasn't too difficult. We don't intend to rent it to different renters on back to back days. The rental income can easily exceed the cost of ownership and provide us a vacation home for the family. This model has worked out nice for us.