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Asking Eric: How Can We Stop ‘Friendsgiving’ From Ruining Our Thanksgiving Celebrations?
The wife wants to charge a cleaning fee for friends staying free to cover professional cleaning costs; the husband opposes charging friends due to financial comfort.
- A husband asked whether to charge friends a cleaning fee for their guest house that his wife rents on Airbnb when unused, sparking a rare dispute between the couple and prompting a letter to R. Eric Thomas.
- Because Airbnb bookings include a cleaning fee, the wife argues it should apply to friends too since cleaning staff must be paid after each stay, and she wants to avoid subsidizing hosting despite their financial success.
- Preferring hospitality, the Husband lets visiting friends stay free and dislikes taking money, while columnist R. Eric Thomas suggested friends treat the couple to dinner or use discretionary funds to cover cleaning staff.
- The columnist concluded neither spouse is strictly wrong and advised compromise, recommending compromise options like creative hosting solutions to prevent resentment with friends.
- This raises a wider etiquette question about charging friends versus offering free stays, highlighting tension between hospitality and Airbnb's short-term rental practices when hosts waive nightly rates.
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Asking Eric: Should friends pay a cleaning fee at our Airbnb?
Dear Eric: My wife and I own a guest house up the street from our home. When we’re not using it for ourselves, my wife rents it out on Airbnb. The Airbnb guests pay a nightly rate and also pay a cleaning fee, which we use to pay the cleaning staff after they check out.
·Springfield, United States
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