Hosting Your Home - Airbnb Host Stories

Debi Hertert of HostingYourHome.com interviews two veteran housekeepers who take care of Debi’s three Airbnb vacation rentals on the Oregon coast.  Bonnie (left) and Billie (right, with  Makenzie) bring their wits and humor as they discuss what makes a good guest, funny situations that come up like having to help pack up some guests who were forgetting to leave, and of course the hard challenges of housekeeping. This is a different job altogether than house cleaning for full-time residents.  Some Airbnb hosts already use professional cleaners, and some no doubt think about using them for turnovers or intermittently.  Even if the space is different than the coastal properties discussed here, the critical requirements of housekeepers are the same: Reliability of meeting your guest schedule, and Feeling co-ownership in achieving great guest experiences Debi’s beach rentals are hours away, so in that case, a third critical requirement is initiative.  She is completely reliant on Billie and Bonnie to not only cl