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Why do you feel the need to mention the maid?? Are you trying to sound better?
Everyone who rents a vacation home uses a cleaning service that comes in after each guest checks out and prepares the house for the next guest. It isn't maid as in personal servant the way you're thinking.
Everyone who rents a vacation home uses a cleaning service that comes in after each guest checks out and prepares the house for the next guest. It isn't maid as in personal servant the way you're thinking.
Everyone who rents a vacation home uses a cleaning service that comes in after each guest checks out and prepares the house for the next guest. It isn't maid as in personal servant the way you're thinking.
I’ll add when you’ve got back to back renters scheduled it is imperative your guests are out of there on time because there is usually on a small (a few hours) window for the cleaners to get in to clean.
OP, this theme of family or friends taking advantage of your offers for a place to stay keeps coming up. At the risk of stating the obvious, I'm inclined to suggest, that in the future, you not schedule your non-paying guests so tightly with the paying-guest schedule, but also, perhaps in general, you may have to be less generous with people. It's a sad fact, that there are people out there, who will take advantage of their "friends' " or relatives' generosity. This can occur enough times, that one begins to wonder if these are true friends. I empathize with you, because I like to be giving with friends, but the results have been, that I've learned who my true friends are, and which people are not such authentic friends.
Anyway, you don't owe these people a solution to a problem THEY have caused; you don't owe them a homestay at your place. Given the circumstances, you have no choice but to courteously but firmly insist they stay in a hotel. I'm sure you've received excellent advice from the other posters, on that score.
Best wishes for the current situation, and the future.
Why do you feel the need to mention the maid?? Are you trying to sound better?
Context is everything. She mentioned it in a proposed message to the friends, as a way of pointing out, that the house was scheduled for cleaning the afternoon of their departure. It was mentioned as a way of reiterating the point that they need to be out of the house on the day originally specified.
It's quite common for people to use a professional cleaning crew for rental units with high occupancy turnover.
we had a vacation home that we did not rent out and rarely let anyone stay there for free. It can get awkward if there is damage to your home, someone gets injured, etc. Do you want to be filing an insurance claim for these non-paying guests? They may claim you were negligent in some way.
This is the best reason to say “no”, in whatever polite way you think best.
I think you missed the part about cultural differences.
I did see that, however, I think even people with cultural differences can recognize when they are being taken advantage of. If someone wanted to offer this as a one-time generous gift to a family member or friend, that would be different than this becoming the expectation where they're just going to get a free vacation pad to come and go as they please. If they're going to do that, then they can purchase it, maintain it, pay the property taxes and insurance on it, etc.
The question for OP to ask is how is this generosity reciprocated? If he's having a hard time answering that, then he is being taken advantage of.
Someone mentioned that the OPs question wasn't answered, but I think if you've already committed to certain dates, the answer could be: "Unfortunately we're not able to accommodate you through those dates, and you will need to leave by __________. I'm sure you'll understand and find a hotel that will work for you. Kisses."
I did see that, however, I think even people with cultural differences can recognize when they are being taken advantage of.
They can see it, but her husband is the one whose "cultural differences" won't allow him to "allow her" to make the changes that conventional wisdom suggests in these kinds of conflicts.
So these posts mostly serve as an outlet for frustration.
The OP's question WAS answered: She actually asked how we would handle it.
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