Wow, you are too nice! I’d give a “1” for cleanliness. That is out of order. And " there’s a maid", as one of my guests said, is no excuse.
Remind them that it’s not a commercial property with unlimited funds, resources, inventory, etc.
Sheesh! Cockroaches!!!
Tell that to the dozen or more guests who have been of the opposite belief because of my fines for failure to follow the House Rules (where the fines are clearly stated).
As they are leaving…
Me: Are you going to clean up?
She: No, we paid the cleaning fee so we don’t have to.
Me: (I didn’t know what to say) I cleaned it up.
I have seen threads on this before on this forum, and with some appropriate responses. Maybe somebody can link to those threads.
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For a few dishes…really 
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Yes, even if it’s a few dollars. Just to teach the guest a lesson. I guess that’s the teacher in me. LOL
There’s something about that statement that, to me, is just so wrong.
JF
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So if over a dozen guests are having issues with your rules, who is at fault here? If the same thing happens over and over I would change how I do things.
RR
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Luckily there are many dozens more that don’t have issues. The ones that do? They don’t read them and that is my fault? Those that do, and that comply, have no issues. If I could figure out how to get people to not lie about reading the rules when they haven’t we would all be better off. I suppose there are those that have issue with them being so numerous, like you, but if they book anyways, that’s not my problem. Best I can try to do is deter the negative behaviors with the publicized fines and have cameras to prove they did the negative behaviors. Now if Airbnb would just actually support me when I provide it instead of using the excuse, I didn’t receive it, that would be helpful.
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What possible good could that do anyone? The host won’t benefit because the guests aren’t going to return and the guests probably will be put off using Airbnb since they’ve been ‘fined’ for leaving some dirty dishes.
If hosts have to get some sort of compensation for having to clean a sinkful of pots, then they’d be better off simply putting up their nightly fee to cover the labour involved, if any.
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I was a teacher from 1987-2015 and in our part of the US we were taught that negative reinforcement does more harm than good. Unless it’s a emergency situation, it’s almost never appropriate anywhere, least of all with a paying guest.
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I think it varies on the age. At my district, students face consequences for misbehavior. They will get assigned after school detention or a Saturday detention if their level of misbehavior was elevated. Some students get suspended a day or up to 10 days.
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I always thought suspension was counterproductive…the misbehaving students gets out of class…which they seemingly didn’t want to be in to begin with. Then they will also lose out on the days instruction and likely be that much further behind, then care even less to catch up, perpetuating the horrible cycle. Plus that means some poor teacher has to supervise them if it is in-school suspension, and if it’s not, then the miscreant kid gets off Scott free!
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Parkour exhibition in town??? 
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Ahh the memories lol
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I travel once a month to Germany, almost every time I found the dishes dirty and mostly in a new and expensive apartments. Silverware was almost always dirty. The hosts are checking if the dishes are there, not if the previous guests washed the dishes. Have you checked out if the dishes were clean before they checked in? Don’t get me wrong, but if you haven’t checked the dishes, this is why you had to see that, sorry.
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Don’t worry, Vladimir. We’ve discussed the dishes situation quite a lot here in the past and every host here either rewashes everything or at least checks the dishes after every guest
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Agreed. It’s like they’re getting a 10 day vacation. They’re suppose to make up missed work which they never do and then they fail most of their courses and get left back a year. A former student just graduated at the age of 20! He was left back so many times.
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Ah no I check everything thoroughly before each guest. That’s what a good host does. His profile states that he’s a college student so I surmised he’s probably never washed any dishes because mom does that.
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And I’m guessing in apartments run by companies, not individuals. They have cleaning staff who comes in and turns over an entire apartment in an hour so they don’t check everything. Please leave honest reviews for these apartments.
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