Paying Cleaners After Extra Dirty Guests

[Chris Mills]

Hi all,

I have 3 small cleaning companies that I use regularly spread across over a dozen STR homes. Each has put in bids for what they will charge for each property after a guest stay. One has sent higher invoices than usual recently after particularly messy guests. She's just deciding what she want's to charge at this point. I would like to establish a pre-determined increase for those messy guests and require pictures, etc., I'm just having a hard time deciding what that increase would be. I'd like to keep it simple, like a flat fee or percentage that I can apply to all 3 companies and all the homes of all different sizes in the case of a difficult cleaning situation so we're not negotiating after the fact. Thoughts?