How are you going to clean your STRs now?

[Paul Sandhu]

Today, 4-5 of my units will become vacant.  The tenants are going back home since their job is projected to be done.  How are you, or your cleaning crew, going to clean your places for the next renters?  Or are you going to leave them as is (but take out the trash) because you don't anticipate anyone renting them in the near future?

[Carolyn Fuller]

We are following the Airbnb guidelines as if we were renting to visiting nurses (which we hopefully will be). That means no one enters the unit for 24 hours. Then either my husband and I or our cleaning crew will disinfect the unit according to Airbnb's recommendations. We will leave 72 hours between guests (actually tenants because we've turned our STR into a 32 day minimum). In other words, we will treat our units as if they have been exposed to this virus and the units will be used to house people who are part of the solution not part of the problem.