We recently asked Owner Community members how much they pay their housekeeper or property management company to clean their vacation home between renters, in addition to how much they then charge their renters.

We had a total of 75 complete responses and here's what we found:

Average Cleaning Cost per Rental


Which Markets Vary Significantly from the Average?
Higher than Average: Colorado, Hawaii, Destin, Fla., and San Francisco.

Lower than Average: Gatlinburg, Tenn the Poconos (Penn.), Costa Rica, and Disney/Orlando, Fla.

Types of Housekeepers

• Individual housekeepers tend to be less expensive than housekeeping services or property management companies.
• Owners who clean their own property charge their renters about the same cleaning fee as those who use individual housekeepers.

Cleaning Fees
28% of owners surveyed don't charge a cleaning fee (or they build the cleaning cost into their rental rate).

Of those owners who do charge a cleaning fee:

• 64% charge their renters the exact cost of cleaning.
• 24% charge their renters more than the costs of cleaning.
• 12% charge their renters less than the costs of cleaning.

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