Good observations of human behavior @Muddy. I also believe some people (including people who clean for a living) just don’t have a good concept of what “clean” looks like.
I will extend guest stay for 10 days free of charge as a gesture of goodwill after a month stay. So I don’t want to give them comment until they really check out (10 days after the date in system). Is it okay to do so ?
You have 14 days after official check-out to leave a review.
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Wow “not in my experience” you are lucky then, as I am with Nanasplace-we seem to find about 50% of the people leave it without ruining something (towels, chair, walls) etc…and we are a superhost with a 3 bedroom 3 bath home that most think is pretty swank…yet we have had folks tape things to wall and pull paint off, wipe up wine/mud with white towels ruining them (despite being told were we keep crap towels), bash our paddleboards into our siding denting it, breaking a chair and supergluing it vs reporting so its not seen at first glance, etc…I could go on…we have implemented at min 440$ rate per night stay, and a 225$ cleaning fee which seems to help…however I am learning no matter what the fridge is typically always left in horrid shape compared to what I would feel comfortable getting and storing food in…
Well, we’re effectively shut just now, but from when reopened at the beginning of July, until October, our guests were all top notch. What was even more curious was that they were all domestic Spanish guests, and prior they were generally the worst communicators and the messiest.
All this shit guest stuff must be a US thing…
JF
Although any host anywhere can get a crummy guest, I have noticed that the vast majority of horrible guest reports seem to come from US hosts.
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I think it’s possible - but more likely to be an entitled-host problem. As I’ve said before, I suspect there are some hosts who expect Airbnb guests to be some new breed of SuperGuest. They’re not, they’re just the same as they always were.
What I suspect may be different is the way hosts today expect guests to be perfect. This is why we get so many hosts here exclaiming that they had terrible guests and had the temerity to exclaim ‘guest left two unwashed cups in the sink!’ or they ‘didn’t take all the garbage out!’ or they ‘opened a window against the rules!’ or other dreadful transgressions.
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Yes I reckon that can happen. Early in my Airbnb days a guest washed all the bedding. Innocently thinking she was being helpful, I said she didn’t need to do that, only to find she’d spilled a bottle oil all over things !!
It was all ok though