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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think if you had planned to go with them and then backed out, but they still want to go- I’d let them. You already invited them there for the weekend, the gracious thing would be to tell them they should definitely go without you when you call them to say you can’t make it anymore [/quote]

+100

Ask them to pay the cleaning fee, but don’t charge them rent. [/quote]

People have reading comp issues. A trip was planned for a weekend several weeks ago, which was canceled due to bad weather.

Then, out of the blue they’re asking OP to just let them use the house for some weekend at a time OP is out of town.

I would just say “we actually just rented it for that weekend so it’s not available. Sorry!” And if they ask again, I’d tell them by phone or in-person, “but you’re not like a Renter, you’re our friend! We want to spend that time with you, and obviously we don’t want to like, Charge you, like you’re some Renter!” This gives them an opening to offer to pay rent so they can use it without you, at which point you refer them to the website to rent it officially, “just so we can have a record of when it was rented out” (thus availing yourself of the regular protections you have with renters). I’d also start inviting them out a little less frequently for a whole, so the house stops feeling quite as familiar to them, and they stop thinking of it as their own, however subconsciously. Make some changes too if you’ve wanted to. [/quote]

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