All Forum Posts by: Jory Wilder

I have an STR and usually book it out for shorter stays like 1-2 nights at a time mostly. My cleaner recently mentioned she would like to get paid more for longer stays that are like 4-5 days. Should I pay her more $ for longer stays like this or just pay her the same fee? My thinking is when there is a one night booking and the guest barley uses anything its not like she calls me and tells me to pay her less because it wasn't messy at all and there was barley anything to clean. I can see maybe if someone booked for a monthly stay. Just curious what was working for other investors? She does a great job and I want to keep her happy, at the same time I don't want to get taken advantage of since she gets paid per cleaning, she makes more $ when there are multiple stays within the week.

We don't allow pets in our airbnb as it is our first airbnb and rental property. We do this because we know pets come with odor and hair and we don't want to ruin our nice furniture. We have a monthly booking that just booked last minute, they had a bunch of questions before they booked but never mentioned anything about a dog. 

I know if the guests claim it's a service animal then I have to allow the pet, what is the best way to handle this situation. Also, is there some kind of scam for long term stays because this tenant seems fishy. The booking dates are 2-4-23 to 3-4-23 and if we can I would like to just refund the guests and get them out.