Airbnb house rules - any ideas?

[Brandon McLean]

Hello, I'm about to furnish a house and put it on Airbnb...in the podcast about Airbnb, she mentioned her house rules... just wondering if anyone had a good list of house rules they'd like to share, or if we as a group can come up with some?

[Avery Carl]

I don't know if your property has a fireplace, but to add to @Michael Greenberg's set of rules, which is very similar to our set of rules, we add "we ask that you please do not run the fireplace and the air conditioner at the same time" Because that costs us approximately 1 million dollars in electric bills.

We have the same checkout procedure: strip the beds and put sheets/towels by the laundry, run the dishwasher, take the trash to the outside can. We have gotten pushback after checkout a time or two (mostly from young guests, -__- ) so we word our checkout procedure as "please complete our quick 3 step checkout procedure to help our housekeeper, Monica, quickly prepare for the next guest." I have found that humanizing the checkout procedure is less irritating to those guests who believe they should not have to clean up after themselves.