Yesterday I received a booking enquiry as shown below (with personal info removed):
"I have been Airbnb hosting my 5Brm home in xxx for 12 mths now and I have just launched a cleaning service 'xxx'.
As myself and partner work fulltime, we know it can be a huge task to ensure the Airbnb property is immaculately cleaned for guests before arrival.
Therefore as it is almost holiday time, I am contacting hosts to offer cleaning services to Airbnb properties.
Price is negotiable, as a host I am experienced and pride myself on providing an exceptional clean home for my guests in a timely manner.
Please contact if you would like any further details.
I don't think this is an appropriate use of the booking enquiry feature and I'm not even sure it's a bona fide business.
By using the booking enquiry, I am forced to respond to the enquiry or risk affecting my response rating, even if I am not interested in using their cleaning services.
As far as the existence of the business - I am still trying to understand how a couple can both work full time but still find time to clean other peoples' apartments. If I need someone to clean my apartment for a same day turnaround, it needs tobe cleaned between 11am and 3pm so I don't know how two full time workers could be available for this.
I have googled the company name they provided and neither the person's first name nor location match the information given in the message which leads me to be suspicious.
Anyone else experience something like this?
