Cleaning Fees

[Don173]

I currently pay my cleaning person $90 per reservation for a 1 bedroom apartment.   My apartment is in the Northeast where everything is expensive.  They clean and wash bedding and towels.  Some weeks I'll have 3  2/night reservations which cost me a total of $270 even though 1 of the days may require considerably less time to clean.  Does anyone use a different arrangement for paying cleaning expenses other than a set amount  for each reservation,  such as a flat weekly rate or per hour rate, etc.?  Thanks Don

[Noel102]

AirBnB doesn't allow anything other than a flat rate as far as I've been able to tell.  Something that might help you reduce your costs by reducing the time it takes to turnover would be to have 2-3 extra sets of linens and towels so all the cleaning crew has to do is swap them out.  You can do the laundry yourself to save the hourly cost.