leaving my food in my frig

[Susan535]

hi all. so glad to have found this community. i'm about to list my house and i have a question:  i live in this house and will be vacating it when guests book the house. can i leave my food in my frig? or would that be a yuk factor for guests?

thanks for any help!

[Kim-and-Jen0]

Hi @Susan535

You can label some shelves for 'airbnb guests'. so the guests can put their stuff on designated place.

I do the same too 😉

hope it helps 🙂

[Susan535]

do u rent out your entire house and leave food in your frig.? or is it a room in your house?

thanks!

[Scott80]

Personally, I would not leave personal items in an 'entire place' rental. But I do not live in the property ever, so some posters here feel that there are different expecations for live-in versus investor hosts.

[Susan535]

thanks scott. i appreciate the feedback

[John-and-Heather0]

@Susan535We rent the whole home, and live here part of the time and then kick ourselves out for guests.

I think its important that a home have enough "space" for guests' items. That includes space for their food.  We leave all kinds of non-perishable condiments, oils, vinegars, spices, sauces etc. Guests appreciate that, use them, and occasionally leave others behind.

With fridge items, we try to leave only things that wouldn't have the "ick" factor in a restaurant, for example (catsup, mustard, coctail sauce, mayo). So we try to leave squeeze bottles as opposed to "dip the knife in" type of items, and leave condiments only. We regularly check and toss by date.

I know some hosts in our area have a "bonus fridge" in their garage, move food they want to keep there, and lock it away from guests. I think that can work well too.

[Susan535]

thank you john and heather. your reply was very helpful. based on that i'v decided to remove my "ick" factor food when guests are in my house. am about to go live! yikes! 

[Debbie789]

We leave non perishables only because it became too costly and inconvenient every time we kicked ourselves out for renters. Spices, flour, sugars and salt remain in their regular places. Everything else goes in a very high shelf in the pantry. We don't, however, leave anything in the fridge. Suppose we could as our renters once left us a frozen pizza and unopened ice cream, but we've decided not to. Instead we are creative in our cooking to use everything up before we vacate. Glad to hear others leave some food as well.