Reduced Airbnb Cleaning Fees
For a limited time, Handy is offering hosts their first 2-hour cleaning for only $29! Click this link to claim this special offer.
Hosting on Airbnb can be an extremely rewarding experience with a score of benefits. You’re able to meet travelers from every corner of the world and act as the narrator of your city’s story, all while supplementing or replacing your income!
But being an Airbnb host is no walk in the park…and some days you might feel more like a professional maid than a guide for your neighborhood. Of course, you want to offer a clean, hotel-like experience for your guests. But unlike a hotel, you don’t have a full-time housekeeping staff ready to turn over your listing in between reservations.
Airbnb candidly notes that cleaning is one of the more challenging aspects of preparing your listing.
Amongst vetting inquiries, keeping your calendar up to-date, communicating with guests, providing access to your listing and ensuring your guests have a warm experience, cleaning can be the MOST fatiguing.
Take note…Cleaning as part of guest preparation is very important – Airbnb reports that listings with a 5-star cleanliness rating receive 20% more bookings than listings with a rating of 4 or below.
Airbnb Cleaning Plan
A solid Airbnb cleaning and guest preparation program should include the following:
Robust Cleaning
Your listing should be free of clutter, dirt and debris. Make sure the floors in the bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas are vacuumed and mopped. The bathroom should be sanitized with special attention paid to removal of hair from the sink, toilet, shower and floor. Any opened food or beverages from prior guests should be removed from the fridge.
Fresh Linens
Guests will spend the majority of their stay in your listing sleeping, so it’s very important that they feel comfortable. Preparation should include freshly washed sheets, pillowcases and towels.
Pro Tip: Using white sheets and towels makes guests feel confident that they are sleeping in and using fresh, clean linens.
Ample Clothing Storage
Make sure your guests have room to unpack their suitcase and store their garments. This should include drawers for folded items and hanging space for more delicate items, like suits and dresses.
Personalized Extras
Going above and beyond to prepare for your guest can truly make their visit memorable. Some hosts leave a special note, others a city tour guide; whatever you choose…make it personal.
Airbnb Cleaning Services
Hiring self-employed cleaners or a professional Airbnb cleaning service can not only reduce the fatigue caused by guest preparation, but it can also increase your cleanliness rating.
A higher rating leads to MORE bookings and revenue as a host.
Airbnb is currently running a cleaning experiment for select hosts in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and London with help from Handy – a company experienced in connecting customers with fully-vetted, experienced cleaning professionals.
Airbnb Dashboard
Eligible hosts in this experiment can book cleaning through Handy directly in their Airbnb dashboard.
Do you have a listing in one of these cities but don’t see cleaning eligible in your Airbnb dashboard?
Don’t worry! Handy has made this service available to all hosts in these cities directly on their website…more info below.
Handy is the nation’s largest on-demand home cleaning and home improvement company. Founded in 2012, their goal is to be the easiest way to manage home services. With 10,000 top-quality professionals, coverage in 25 US cities, a $5MM liability insurance policy and next-day availability, they’re able to offer a world-class experience for their customers.
Over the past year, they have performed tens of thousands of cleanings for Airbnb hosts…that’s a lot of cleaning.
Their tailored cleaning service includes linen rental and many remote access options so you’re not required to be present during service appointments.
These options include:
- Free Lockbox – the least technical and most reliable solution
- Key Courier Service – a paid service used when a lockbox cannot be used given location or landlord rules
- Integration with keycafe.com – best if keys are used for both guests and cleaners
We sat down with Kyle Gesuelli who leads the Handy Airbnb cleaning program. He told us that hosts have found this service absolutely critical to their success on the Airbnb platform.
He noted that Handy currently works with many hosts who live in an entirely different city. They use Handy’s access services along with their cleanings to manage guest preparation remotely.
The hosts who utilize Handy’s cleaning service have, on average, cut out 2 hours of work per week by eliminating coordination with their local cleaner and/or cleaning their listing themselves.
Get your first cleaning today!
Reduced Airbnb Cleaning Fees
For a limited time, Handy is offering hosts their first 2-hour cleaning for only $29! Click this link to claim this special offer.
This is awesome! I love the Airbnb cleaning plan.
While using a service is definitely a valid option, I’ve had some friends that were super disappointed in them (not Handy, though). The problem is that the same person doesn’t come every time, and so they have no chance to get familiar with your place and how things should be presented. This leads to inconsistencies in how you like your place to be cleaned, where furniture belongs, how arrival materials are presented, and the overall feel and energy of the place for your guests.
I just published a book where I talk about how to hire *one* turnover assistant (I don’t call them a cleaner, because they do so much more!) called “Cleaning Up: How to Work With a Turnover Assistant to Uplevel Your Profit, Freedom and Success Hosting on Airbnb.”
Warmly,
Amy, The Abundant Host
How would changing linens and towels be handled? Would I need to provide fresh linens each service?
Yes I suggest you supply clean towels and bed linens for every guest.
what i your book called? i will be renting my place for 5 months but will not be here to manage things and need a reliable and trustworty assistant to do this for me.
duh, never mind, im tired and missed that you posted the title. sorry!
While I do love what Handy services, my company offers exactly what Amy, The Abundant Host has mentioned: a familiar face every time and a sense of consistency when it comes to getting your space ready for the next tenant. We do focus on cleaning but take that another step farther by bringing a 5 star hotel experience to your home. Check out our website to learn more!
Audrina, there is no website here to click. I have 8 properties in LA and would love to talk with you about taking our properties on. Thanks!
Hello Audriana,
Hope you are well. I am very interested in your service. I have an appartment in nyc and my current turnover person is becoming more and more difficult. How can I use your service? My email is artist.akhavan@gmail.com
handy.com doesn’t service my area. i would love to hear other suggestions
You say “check out our website to learn more” but fail to tell what the name of your website is
The website to check out is Handy.com.
Thanks and have a great day,
Jim
What is your website. I am located in miami and am looking for an airbnb cleaning service.
This is one of the most informative information I’ve read. It really helps a lot.
Hi,
Glad to have this post!
In order to do a thorough and general cleaning, you need to have a checklist for house cleaners. Having a checklist helps to ensure that you do not miss any spots while cleaning. It is also important to ensure that the professional people you have working for you are doing a thorough job.Your life is busy. You have a lot of different things going on that you need to take care of. With so many different things on your mind, it can be hard to keep track of things like cleaning house.
Fortunately, you can hire professionals so that you can get your house clean and get on to the more important things in your life. Thanks for sharing this post with the idea of house cleaning service.
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Adedc
There are lots of cleaning companies but people want to hire only that companies which provide them perfect cleaning services. so to get popularity every cleaning company want to know all needs of people and try to get efficiency in those activities. the given information can prove very useful for cleaning company owners to know that what type of cleaning services are liked by people.
Handy offers a great deal on the first cleaning, but after that they gouge you at over $100 each cleaning and that doesn’t include laundry. They also have a different cleaner almost every time so they get lost and then leave and you are stuck without a clean house and guests checking in without a clean house 🙁 Honestly it was a terrible experience, they wouldn’t even send someone back to the house to clean before the guests arrived 4 hours later. Does anyone else have any other lower cost cleaning options outside of handy?
With big cleaning companies you have more chance to get things complicated about their services. As a former Host for five years in London, UK I get this feedback from my recent clients. I do services for Airbnb hosts from cleaning. shopping, check-in to managing their properties and liaising with guests. The key word is Personal touch.
I have the keys, I have the schedule. Turn up and do my best. I know where things are, when stuff used up, making a shopping list, fill up selves, arranging laundry, etc.
On the other hand it’s good to have an option to connect if need.
Maria this is exactly what i’m looking for and i have no idea how to find it in my area.
I agree with a lot of the points you made in this article. I appreciate the work you have put into this and hope you continue writing on this subject.
Airbnb cleaning is such an innovative cleaning service. It’s the perfect solution to easily maintaining vacation rentals. So glad I found this article!
I am also interested in and want to invest in this field in Singapore according to you I need to prepare what to achieve the professional as your company
I often read your article for getting clear idea.A Unique idea thanks for sharing.This post is really useful.
My company, Real Green Clean, cleans vacation rentals in Moab, UT. We have several absent owners that do not have anyone to greet the guests or help them out in anyway. I love the idea of a Turnover Assistant! Thanks for sharing.
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I am a local super host in SF Bay Area and have been a host for the last 2 years. I also own a cleaning service and we provide cleaning services to many, many airbnb hosts! If you’re in SF Area and need cleaning service, please reach out!
As hosts of rental properties we have experience in cleaning/turnover services as well as maintenance and repairs in our Lake Geneva WI community. How can we reach out to other hosts in our area to offer our services?
Put the information in your host profile, create a website, join local hosting Meetup groups and Facebook groups as well. But do not solicit other hosts through Airbnb messaging–Trust & Safety doesn’t like that and could ban you from the platform.