Cleaning Fee and Rates

[Justin Melton]

New host, we have had 3 successful bookings.  We are self managing and cleaning ourselves.  The property is 2 minutes from our house so that’s no issues for us to clean.  All stays we’ve had booked are for 2 nights and on weekends.  

We opened for bookings April 1, have had 3 completed stays with 2 future bookings scheduled.  All has been smooth so far.  We are not charging a cleaning fee as we think for 2 night stays adding a cleaning fee really increases the overall cost to stay. However, if we charged $50 cleaning fee and had 10 bookings per month, that would be an extra 500 of revenue.  

What do you think about how to determine rates and cleaning fees ect? 

[John Underwood]

Absolutely charge the cleaning fee. You are doing the work you should be paid.