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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I’m really surprised at people asking friends for the cleaning fee. 
To share your second home with somebody is such a gracious gesture and asking for $100 is cheap. I think most people would remember the lovely gift you gave and pay you back in some appropriate way when the time was right, with a kindness of their own. But maybe not if they felt that they had already been asked to pay you, regardless of the fact that the actual price is much higher. You are sort of devaluing your own gift to your friends. And yeah, some people won’t or can’t ever repay the favor and that has to be ok too.[/quote]

I'm one who lets friends and families use our home when we are not there, but we do ask them to pay the cleaning fee.  I'm shocked that anyone would think that means we are devaluing what we are giving. Houses similar to ours rent for more than $15,000 a week in season.  We are paying for a/c, water, pool service, home supplies, etc.  How is it possibly asking too much from someone whom we are letting use our home for a virtually free vacation to pay the cleaning fee at the end of their week?  If someone offered this deal to me, I would jump on it.[/quote]

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