Guides
Guides for short-term rental hosts
Practical help with turnovers, from the team behind TurnMyRental. Every guide is free to read, and none of them needs an account.
Your cleaning company uses Housecall Pro or Jobber: how that fits with your booking calendar
How a host fits TurnMyRental beside a cleaning company that runs on Housecall Pro or Jobber: what each tool does, how bookings reach the cleaner, and the host's few steps.
How much to pay an Airbnb cleaner
Work out what to pay your Airbnb cleaner. Compare per-turn and hourly pay, see what drives the price, and use our free per-turnover pay calculator.
Average Airbnb cleaning fee, and how to set yours
The average US Airbnb cleaning fee was $161.10 per stay in 2025 among listings that charge one, per AirDNA. See averages by size, fee rules and a calculator.
Airbnb checkout instructions: what to ask, where to add them, and a template
What to ask Airbnb guests to do at checkout, what to leave for your cleaner, where the instructions go in Airbnb, and a free template to copy.
Airbnb turnover cleaning: from checkout to guest-ready
How to run an Airbnb turnover clean from checkout to guest-ready: the order of jobs, same-day timing, what to restock, which photos to take and the handoff.
How to hire a reliable Airbnb cleaner
Where to find an Airbnb cleaner, the questions to ask, how to run a paid trial clean, insurance and 1099 basics, and why you need a backup cleaner.
Airbnb cleaner agreement: a free template and what it should cover
A free, plain-language Airbnb cleaner agreement template that covers scope, pay, timing, supplies, damage, cancellations and insurance. Copy it and adapt it.
How to sync your Airbnb calendar with Vrbo
Sync your Airbnb calendar with Vrbo using iCal links: where to export and import, how often each site refreshes, and how to cut the risk of double bookings.
What to do when your Airbnb cleaner does not show up
Your Airbnb cleaner did not show up? Follow our hour-by-hour plan, send the guest an honest message, build a backup list and catch it early next time.
Airbnb cleaning checklist
A free, printable room-by-room turnover checklist for short-term rentals, with the items worth photographing. Also as a Word document and a plain text file to edit.
How to find your calendar link
Where to find the iCal calendar link in Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Hostaway, Guesty, Lodgify, Hospitable, OwnerRez and other platforms, with short videos.
How-to videos
Six short videos, each under a minute, showing where to find the calendar link in Airbnb, Vrbo, Hostaway, Guesty, Lodgify and OwnerRez and how to connect it. They play on our own site.
How we compare
We set TurnMyRental side by side with other tools hosts use for cleanings, link a source for every fact about them, and say where each one is the better choice.
New to TurnMyRental?
We text your own cleaner about every turnover, straight from your booking calendar. See how it works, see pricing or read about us.