Short-term rental hosting, since 2023
Hostly Tips: guides for short-term rental hosts
Practical guides for hosts, mostly about turnovers and cleaning: hiring a cleaner, handling a cancellation, and getting a unit truly guest-ready.
Cleaners and turnovers
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Turnover day
The same-day scramble: what hosts actually do when the cleaner cancels
The hour-by-hour version of a canceled same-day turnover, what each option really costs, and the two decisions that matter before noon.
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Hiring
Interview questions to ask potential cleaners for your Airbnb
The questions worth asking before you hire, grouped by what you are trying to learn, with what a good answer sounds like and what should give you pause.
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Handover
Mistakes hosts make when handing turnovers to a cleaning service
Seven handoff mistakes that quietly wreck turnovers: vague briefs, no shared definition of done, skipped trial cleans, and single-cleaner risk.
From the archive
Hostly Tips started in 2023 as a product-recommendation and hosting-advice blog. The pages below are what survives from that era. The original 2023 homepage is preserved as a site archive; most of the original product posts are no longer online, and their titles are listed here for reference only.
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The 2023 homepage, preserved
The original front page of Hostly Tips as it stood in 2023, kept at its own address.
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About Us (2023)
The original About page, written by the hosts who founded the blog.
Original 2023 posts, no longer online:
- The Best Bunk Beds for Airbnb
- Best Pots and Pans for Airbnb
- How to Find a Cleaner for Your Airbnb
- Best Smart Locks for Airbnb
- The Ultimate Vacation Rental Cleaning Checklist
- Should You Allow Pets in Your Vacation Rental?
- and 11 more product guides, all linked from the 2023 homepage
About this site
Hostly Tips publishes short-term rental hosting guides. The focus is operations rather than gear: hiring cleaners, handing over turnovers, keeping a property guest-ready when you are not the one walking it, and telling guests what to expect without over-promising.
Everything published here is written as Hostly Tips, and the guides name the tools and sources they draw on so you can check them yourself. Older product posts from the site's 2023 era are archived rather than rewritten.