Is Your Rental Ready for Summer?
Summer is near and people are ready to travel and enjoy their vacations, so chances are your Airbnb rental will be booked back to back leaving you little time to act on emergencies or any restock needs.
Lucky for you with our years of experience we have acquired some tips to be prepared for the summer booking chaos.
Bedding
Make sure you have a double set of sheets for each bed and a double set of towels per person (the maximum number of people who can stay in your rental) as well.
If you use a duvet we recommend having two duvet covers and make sure they are not mismatched, stained, or are old and worn out.
If you use a comforter, you should also have double but preferably you should change a comforter for a duvet.
Please, avoid mismatched, stained, worn-out towels, sheets, or anything!
You can read more bedding tips.
General Stock
We recommend having enough supplies or restock for the guests since most of the properties will be back to back, which will save you an emergency trip.
Don’t forget towels and linens as well, having double for each person, as a minimum but it depends on how long usually people stay in your rental.
Other Details
Are pictures of your listing up to date? Make sure you have current photos of your listing in case you forgot to take a picture of that cool new paint you added in the living room or that new sofa that gives the place a refreshed look.
If you have only one trash bin make sure you have two or double recycle bins as well, as you know summers get crazy and more trash is wasted than in winter or other seasons, the trash bin gets filled faster, so that’s a good detail to keep in mind.
Make sure you don’t need repairs like a loose door, faulty cabinets, damaged remote control, old windows that don’t stay open. Because the flu season is coming as well, make sure you have screens or that they are in good condition (no holes or busted ones).
Make sure your drains are working correctly and not draining slow or at all.
If you have a sofa-bed, make sure it is working properly, it has to open easily.
Any foldable chairs or beds that have metal can be an issue if your rental is close to the beach because rust can cause your clean sheets or cushions to look dirty or old.
Pots and pans, glasses and bowls/dishes, very important! If they look old, change them for new ones. A good tip or formula for a good amount of dishes is if 8 people can fit in your rental, make sure you have 10 of everything, meaning big dishes, 10 small ones, 10 coffee mugs, 10 glasses, 10 sets of cutlery, as a minimum!.
Pro tip: Have black makeup towels to avoid guests using your white washcloths.
As a Plus
If you have a washing machine in the rental, to speed things up between bookings and cleaning you can leave instructions to your guests before they checkout to add towels to the washing machine, since they last longer to dry, this can help us clean everything else quicker, and not wait for the towels to dry.
Another detail that can help us have your rental clean quicker is if guests load the dishwasher and take out the trash as well.
If you know your guest got out before his checkout time, please contact us so we can start to clean earlier and have your rental ready before the next check-in.