'Make sure the house is spotless by 5 pm': Guests cancel their $2000/night Airbnb reservation after the hosts demand they clean up after the previous guest

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jul 11, 2025 4:00 PM EDT

Home-sharing apps have gotten out of control. People saw the opportunity to get rich quickly with a ramshackle house in a decent area, and realized that they could flip an insane profit off the backs of their guests. Naturally, riding the coattails of the hard work of the guests staying in their house. Because when there's a corner to cut, you better believe that landlord types will be taking advantage of it. 

Maybe I'll never truly understand rich people's entitlement, but it seems very out of pocket to ask a stranger to clean YOUR house after charging them a cleaning fee. Perhaps this host will learn a lesson after losing out on their supplemental income. 

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  • I booked a house for a pool party this summer. This was a $2000 rental for the day and after booking the host asked if we could, "tidy up after" the air bnb guests checking out before us and make sure the house is spotless by 5 pm that day
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  • because they would be coming home from Europe that day and wanted the place clean for their arrival. They couldn't believe we passed and decided to go to a different location.
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  • FunkyPete ⚫ Do cleaning for the PREVIOUS GUESTS and also do your own cleaning because the owner doesn't want to come back to a place that isn't spotless? So you pay them $2000 to clean up someone else's mess, plus leave it spotless after you leave?
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  • If someone was willing to do this the owner should be paying them -- if you come into a messy place and leave it spotless before 5 PM it sounds like you are a cleaning service.
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  • Lazy-Instruction-600. "What do you mean you don't want to pay us $2,000 to be our housemaids?"
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  • TransistorResistee . I won't do AirBnB because they charge as much as a hotel and require ME to clean. No thanks.
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  • herpadurpanurpa⚫ What do you mean we can't charge you cleaning fees to make you enable our supplemental income?!? /s
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  • cg1308. I had a similar one (sort of) with the last AirB&B I had. We rented a big house for a week between five couples. This was obviously a fairly expensive rental and included something ridiculous like 10% cleaning charge. For
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  • some bizarre reason, the owner popped in to look at the place BEFORE the cleaners had been, and sent us a very snarky email and left us a bad review saying that we'd left the place in a mess. Honestly, we really hadn't; but that is what the are for! cleaners
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  • It's a shame, cause it's soured a nice holiday, but you're sure we left a nasty review back.
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  • Miserable-Garlic-532. And how could you predict what kind of mess the previous occupants would leave behind? Could be nothing or a complete nightmare. But you would get stuck with the repercussions. Good cancel.
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  • This Airbnb host was no different from the rest. After charging $2000 per night for their poolside mansion, they had the gall to demand that their guests clean up. And no, they didn't mean that they should clean up after themselves following their single-night stay; they insisted that they clean up after the guest prior to them, just to ensure the house was ready for their return after their European vacation. Hmm, it appears that someone's entitlement made them miss the plot. 

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