Freshly Folded can be a part of your turnover team!
While travelers are an essential part of Vacation Rental (Airbnb/VRBO) business, the hosts are just as important. Hosting an Airbnb/VBRO means providing a comfortable space and experience for the travelers that stay with you. Airbnb started with hosting rooms, apartments, and spaces to stay in, but now they’ve expanded to hosting what’s called an experience. An experience is an activity that goes beyond the typical tour or class, designed and led by knowledgeable locals all over the world. A host can share their hobby, skills, or expertise with interested travelers and locals looking to learn something new, or participate in activities that would be difficult to find in your hometown. For example, in San Diego, you can snorkel with a biologist, meditate with a Japanese Buddhist monk, or join a rescue dog walk by the bay! Experiences can be held in person, or online, making them accessible for everyone.
Hosting has become an entrepreneurial path to extra income and support for many. Host responsibilities include making your space safe, clean, and inviting, while also sharing your passion for new adventures and experiences in the city with your travelers. Airbnb is known for supporting their hosts through every step of the way with guest standards and promotional tools that bring ease to the hosting job. Some people are hosting their own properties, while some are co-hosting, where they hire and airbnb professional to handle part of, or the entire process from managing the listing, to customer inquiries, check-in/out and turning over the property for the next guest.
Every Airbnb/VRBO client has one consistent expectation… cleanliness! Airbnbs that look, feel, and smell clean get better ratings from travelers, especially in recent years, where people are hesitant to travel anywhere where cleanliness can be compromised. As a traveler, you’d like your health, safety, and comfort in the hands of someone who really cares for the space they’re providing. And as a host, you want your travelers to feel welcome and be able to enjoy an environment that is looked after. Cleanliness is most important when applied to where you eat, sleep, and bathe. One thing that all of these activities have in common, is that they create dirty laundry! Linens, and towels are all essentials in an Airbnb, but how are you supposed to keep these bigger items clean from home, or even without a washer/dryer?
Freshly Folded can keep the laundry process for your Airbnb consistent and impressive to your guests. We know it is costly to have your home cleaning team at your property long enough to get all the towels and linens washed/dried/folded. The dryer is truly the bottleneck with each load taking about an hour to dry. Without a second dryer on property, it’s near impossible to do all the laundry before the next guest arrives. This is where Freshly Folded commercial laundry delivery service makes a huge difference! With a second set of linens and towel, the cleaners just put the laundry on the doorstep, or another established pick up area, and Freshly Folded will pick them up, process them and return them the next day.
We know Airbnb properties don’t have a set day for pick ups, as your guests are checking in/out all the time. We can set up a regular pick up day OR you can schedule us as needed, multiple times a week if needed! With Freshly Folded your travelers will enjoy the freshest, softest laundry available. Our commercial-sized machines are able to handle the fluffiest comforters, and largest loads of towels. We offer soaps like Tide and Downy for that powerful clean laundry scent, or All Free and Clear, to cater to a wider variety of guests. One of our services that many Airbnbs utilize is our ability to match up bedding sets by size (king duvets, fitted, and flats; queen duvets, fitted, and flats). This makes the laundry so much easier to unpack and sort in each room of the residence. Last, but not least, our service is next-day delivery. If you have pickup on a Monday, everything will be back to you on Tuesday, helping to keep up with your turnover rates!
Putting together your team to manage and maintain your properties is key. Freshly Folded proudly works with many short-term rental companies to handle all their laundry needs.
