Vacation rental owners - how often wash blankets?

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Anonymous wrote:My vacation rental I was not rich like you so I cleaned it myself. I actually charged zero cleaning fee. I had no late check out fee as left day between guests. I made guests aware the owners cleaned I would be coming over myself with wife.

It was an interesting study of human nature. One website would not let me put I cleaned myself and renters left it a mess each time, even with zero fee. The one I said owner would be coming over usually left it spotless.

So I started charging a fee on the site I could not list owner is cleaning and I still cleaned but kept the fee. My beach house was like 20 minutes my primary house.

People were pretty good. BTW I did two week rentals or more only. I only did weekly for repeat guests. Too much work for me. I also did a nine month winter rental

Yes, the weekly rentals and same-day turnaround make it tough.

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Anonymous wrote:"The cleaning team we found said they don't wash comforters every time between guests."

This is so disgusting but I am not terribly surprised. Now I know that I need to put all the comforters in the washing machine when I first arrive to any rental.

this is not surprising to me at all. The last rental I went to in Rehoboth, I could tell that some teen girl laid on the bed with that Brazilian bum cream. It smelled awful. I have never thought that a rental washes comforters between guests. I'm actually surprised that they get washed 1-2x a month. I doubt many of them would even fit in the washer, and if there are 4-5 bedrooms that would take hours. There is no way a cleaning team who only works at most 3 days a week is spending hours at one house. I throw those things on the floor immediately and wouldn't let anyone in my family sleep with them on the bed.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"The cleaning team we found said they don't wash comforters every time between guests."

This is so disgusting but I am not terribly surprised. Now I know that I need to put all the comforters in the washing machine when I first arrive to any rental.

Hotels with blankets and comforters don't do it either.

I was just a a hotel and the blankets were definitely washed and pressed. I haven't seen a comforter at a hotel in many, many years.

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I don't stay at rentals anymore. The last time we stayed at one, the clean towels were in the dryer and the washing machine was set to a 15 minute delicate cycle. The cleaners had set the machine on the fastest setting for towels to speed things up. I get why they did it, but that's nasty. I rewashd everything on a real cycle.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never stayed at a rental that had comforters. They all have thin blankets/quilts that can be easily washed and dried for this reason, OP.

I also always wash the blankets immediately upon arrival anyway because I can't be sure that the owners aren't cheap and lazy like you.

I think I’ll store the nice comforters that I just bought and get those out when we are there.

And for the renters I’ll buy two sets of sheets and duvet covers plus one set of duvets.

Bed bug cases for mattresses, pillows, and duvets. Plus mattress pads.

Two sets of towels. Or maybe better to have them do them on turnover day in case they are damp? Will need to see if they’ll have time for those.

Anything else?

Don't have the cleaning service wash & dry towels and leave them in the dryer for new guests.

I've arrived twice at AirBnBs and had damp towels in the dryer that needed to be rewashed and dried because they didn't dry fully while the cleaning people were there to supervise.

Also make sure they don't use fragranced detergent. I prefer fragrance free but don't have allergies. Another AirBnB I stayed at had sheets so fragranced that my eyes teared up when I put my head on the pillow. Every linen in the apartment had been washed with this name brand detergent. I think the washer didn't rinse well.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't stay at rentals anymore. The last time we stayed at one, the clean towels were in the dryer and the washing machine was set to a 15 minute delicate cycle. The cleaners had set the machine on the fastest setting for towels to speed things up. I get why they did it, but that's nasty. I rewashd everything on a real cycle.

Yep, think about it: almost every beach rental in the summer on the eastern shore requires a stay from Saturday to Saturday. The rental turns over at 10 AM on Saturday and needs to be cleaned by 4 PM that same day. There can't possibly be enough labor to thoroughly clean all those places. Imagine how many houses each cleaner needs to get done in those six hours. They will make it look superficially nice, but nothing will be cleaned adequately. The minimum things everyone should do when they arrive at these rentals: (1) throw all towels and sheets in the laundry on the hot water setting, (2) wash all dishes in the dishwasher, (3) wipe down all counters, doorknobs, etc. with lysol wipes (bring your own because they're usually not supplied), and (4) vacuum everywhere. A fair amount of effort, but you're staying for a week minimum so just get it done on arrival day and it's not too bad.

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Anonymous wrote:My vacation rental I was not rich like you so I cleaned it myself. I actually charged zero cleaning fee. I had no late check out fee as left day between guests. I made guests aware the owners cleaned I would be coming over myself with wife.

It was an interesting study of human nature. One website would not let me put I cleaned myself and renters left it a mess each time, even with zero fee. The one I said owner would be coming over usually left it spotless.

So I started charging a fee on the site I could not list owner is cleaning and I still cleaned but kept the fee. My beach house was like 20 minutes my primary house.

People were pretty good. BTW I did two week rentals or more only. I only did weekly for repeat guests. Too much work for me. I also did a nine month winter rental

You are rich if you own a vacation home.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My vacation rental I was not rich like you so I cleaned it myself. I actually charged zero cleaning fee. I had no late check out fee as left day between guests. I made guests aware the owners cleaned I would be coming over myself with wife.

It was an interesting study of human nature. One website would not let me put I cleaned myself and renters left it a mess each time, even with zero fee. The one I said owner would be coming over usually left it spotless.

So I started charging a fee on the site I could not list owner is cleaning and I still cleaned but kept the fee. My beach house was like 20 minutes my primary house.

People were pretty good. BTW I did two week rentals or more only. I only did weekly for repeat guests. Too much work for me. I also did a nine month winter rental

You are rich if you own a vacation home.

No, not rich. After Sandy in 2012 home prices were down. I bought a condo in an older garden apt building around March 2013 that was heavily damaged in Sandy. In fact building had no electricity or heat when I first looked at it as building had Sandy Damage.

I should have bought a house instead I bought this condo. In end since I am not rich my wife never let me use it much. We only slept in condo ourself maybe 2-3 nights in 14 years. Between tenants a few times we went over, parked car in condo spot went to beach for day and came back and watched TV then walk to dinner at a nearby restaurant and then drove home. Why? My wife did not want us to reclean unit. We sleep in beds, use towels, leave dirty dishes, use bathroom shower we have to reclean whole thing in case someone wants to rent it out.

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I like how everyone thinks they are cleaner than person before.

I had a women rent from me three years running. She looked like a much better looking version of scarlett johansson who was around 38. It was her and her Mom who was a widow and the Mom looked like Jacklyn Smith from Charilie Anglles as she looks today, older maybe 72 but that super sophisticated older very rich look. The daughter was divorced and had a daugther who looked like she would be in a Ralph Lauren catalog.

I only had the two bedroom Condo but it was only three of them. And they rented two weeks and Grandma came just a few nights. Turns out the Grandma had a mansion in my beach town she sold after husbands death and lived on Park Aven in Manhattan, her daughter lived in a super fancy East Side Coop and was an Investment banker.

No I did now wash comforters after them. If anything the bed smelled a bit of $500 dollar an ounce perfume. It was almost the smell of old money and beauty was in house.

If you need to wash comforter all the time you are renting to sketcy people. And isnt that renters problem. I have a washer dryer in my unit. I have detergent. Feel free to wash. And guess what I dont wash my couch pillows or wash couch cushions or my Lazy Boy Rocker which oddly everyone loves that thing. I think I lasted cleaned it in 2013. Yet everyone puts their head on it.

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Target sells mattress pads that are waterproof, but look and feel like soft cotton. And they don't make any plastic-y sounds when you sit on them.

These are a must, and I would get 2 mattress pads for each bed, and change them for every guest, along with the sheets and duvet cover.

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Anonymous wrote:Target sells mattress pads that are waterproof, but look and feel like soft cotton. And they don't make any plastic-y sounds when you sit on them.

These are a must, and I would get 2 mattress pads for each bed, and change them for every guest, along with the sheets and duvet cover.

So you change them or have your servants do it?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Target sells mattress pads that are waterproof, but look and feel like soft cotton. And they don't make any plastic-y sounds when you sit on them.

These are a must, and I would get 2 mattress pads for each bed, and change them for every guest, along with the sheets and duvet cover.

So you change them or have your servants do it?

I launder my mattress pad every other time I wash my sheets. When we have a guest, I wash the guest room mattress pad before they arrive.

If I had a rental, I would get 2 mattress pads, so the cleaners could make up the bed and take the used linens, including mattress pad, to launder elsewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Target sells mattress pads that are waterproof, but look and feel like soft cotton. And they don't make any plastic-y sounds when you sit on them.

These are a must, and I would get 2 mattress pads for each bed, and change them for every guest, along with the sheets and duvet cover.

So you change them or have your servants do it?

I launder my mattress pad every other time I wash my sheets. When we have a guest, I wash the guest room mattress pad before they arrive.

If I had a rental, I would get 2 mattress pads, so the cleaners could make up the bed and take the used linens, including mattress pad, to launder elsewhere.

I had a beach house one summer in Hamptons and we had to use owners maid service. They actually had a girl around 18 or 19 (southampton College freshman) during the week when houses empty first thing in morning would go to the house they are doing that weekday starting her day around one hour earlier and go to the houses and load up washer with sheets and towels and load dishwasher and leave. The cleaning crew when they go there the dishwasher was run and at sheets and towels just need to be moved to dryer. Otherwise they cant do house as they only have like 30-60 minutes max per house. They cant sit around and wait for washer and dishwasher.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uh, between each set of new guests!

Obviously sheets are washed between each set of guests.

The question was about the blankets and comforters. You wash everything between guests?

NP. YES.

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Hotels will have better standards.