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Me too. I’m tempted to put have a photo with a big bottle of Tide sitting next to the bed 
If for nothing else, I get an inquiry from the same person about every 3 months. It always starts with the same questions and always ends with him saying, “oh, Tide is awful!”. It’s all on the same message stream, I can’t figure out why he doesn’t see that we’ve had the conversation prior but maybe he’s just hassling me.
I’m glad you avoided this difficult guest. I worry there will come a day AirBnB requires that we accommodate “scent-free” guests as matter of disability accomodations.
Can someone explain the part that begins, “my spouse and I came to empty storage units and head to Fl?
I really don’t get it.
I think “empty” is a verb here rather than an adjective. So she and her spouse came to empty out their storage units and then they were going to Florida. That’s my guess anyway.
I am not going to pass judgement on whether this particular dog is a service animal, but there are services a small dog can perform. They can retrieve items, alert for sounds (for hearing impaired), or work as seizure alert dogs among other things.
In the United States, the ADA rules specifically state that certification is unnecessary.
I don’t worry about that…especially with a farm of animals…they would likely prefer I use cleansers with a scent than not clean…lol!
My favorite products have little to no scent. Some of the scents are very disagreeable to me, some I like. For example, I hate the smell of Odo-Ban (eucalyptus). But the 256 product I’m using now comes in a variety of scents and the one I use (wintergreen) isn’t terribly strong.
why would he ask if your farm is organic? he’s not going to eat your food, is he? Do you offer meals?
I don’t think any of our cleaning products are scented and we actually use a lot of white vinegar in our cleaning which actually has odor reducing qualities. We use a wash and fold for our laundry whites because it was just too much with 3 units and it’s turned out cheaper than using our own machines (just purely based on utilities, not including soap and time). They prefer to use Tide and we’d have to pay quite a bit extra to have them use a 7th-Generation scent-free detergent. I don’t think it’s worth it because I’m not a fan of the 7th-Generation laundry soap, it’s just not as effective. We have a scent-free natural detergent we use for our own laundry that is awesome but it’s not an option at the wash and fold, so…Tide it is. Most guests are here for 1-3 nights. I can’t really deal someone with that low of a tolerance anyways because I’m sure there’s something I’ve forgotten (like the toiletries) and just am not set-up to accommodate such an extreme sensitivity.
The difference at our house is that I am that sensitive to scents and chemical additives. Since we have to use mostly scent-free anything and all natural laundry/cleaning products, it works for our guests, too. We provide our guests with the same hand soap, bath gel, and shampoo that I use. It’s simpler for us that way.
But we don’t have three whole units to turn over, as you do. We have two guest rooms and baths in our home.
So true. We started with just one unit and were able to keep up and used our non-scented natural detergent but with the other 2 units, there was just no way. We have all-natural toiletries but they aren’t unscented; however, they are all a 2 or less EWG rating which includes scent/respiratory issues. Many unscented products are rated as high as 7 or 8 so sometimes unscented stuff is a trick anyways (e.g. they can be much worse for scent sensitivities) I do take care with it but it’s not as straight-forward as it may seem.
The few people (including the guy who contacts me about every 3 months) that have inquired and noted their sensitivities were otherwise obnoxious and so I just tell them about the Tide to get rid of them. A normal, reasonable person who has sensitivities, I feel confident I could accommodate 
I’m glad you mentioned EWG. They are my go-to source for products I’m likely to be able to use, both for toiletries and cleaning/laundry products. Very useful.
We don’t have anything in our house that I haven’t vetted through there and I don’t even have any chemical sensitivities, just a whole lot of apprehension about them.
It’s funny, even with the guest sheets being washed in Tide, I bet the house still averages out to a 2.
That’s basically how I took it too but then she explained about the scents and discovered she wanted me to be using organic cleansers…but organic does not necessarily equal scent free so all around a hassle if a dodged bullet.
But the vinegar isn’t self had it’s own odor as well…
But it dissipates quite quickly. It’s not as if the place smells like vinegar
And I’m guessing that you advertise the “perk” of your scent-free stuff, right? I told this girl when I said I didn’t have an organic farm that I would certainly have said so in the listing.
Shallow bowls of white vinegar set in the rooms are my go-to to get rid of bad odors fast! It seems to just soak up the bad smells, and the vinegar smell dissipates within a few minutes after I dump it out.
Hopefully but when I was a kid my mom was given a bunch of clothes for us kids that were all washed in vinegar. They reeked and not only did it bother me but many students and even the teacher kept mentioning how much the class smelled that day…I was mortified when I realized it was my clothes and tried to keep away from people to minimize them realizing it was me. When I told my mom she said they were clean and I wild wear them as is…
It makes me think there was something else wrong with the clothes and that’s why they smelled and why they used vinegar to wash them. It’s really odd. We use white vinegar in every wash load as a natural fabric softener and I have a nose like a blood-hound and cannot smell the vinegar after they’re washed.
It’s an awful story 
I was a kid and got over it but yeah. Quite possible. We were on reduced Or free (can’t remember) school lunches at that time too.