Septic Maintenance for Short Terms

[Justin Knighten]

I currently have 2 houses that I'm renting short-term on Airbnb.  They both have septic systems.  I'm fairly familiar with septic, I've had them in my personal residences for 10 + years now.  With my personal, we rarely have it pumped, but I also know how to treat it, and we don't put crazy things down the drain.  With the others, we have mostly city folk that are on vacation, I have no idea how many different things are being put in it, from grease to food to God only knows what.  How often do those of you with septics have them pumped?