We live in an era of unprecedented connectedness. Email, telephone, social media, the internet…there are so many ways to stay in touch with people. We are also living in a time when services like Airbnb are exploding in popularity. People who wouldn’t have even dreamed of considering hosting on Airbnb 5 years ago are now […]
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Caring for vs. caring about
When it comes to furnishing spaces, many hosts believe that simpler is better. Fewer decorations, Ikea-style furniture, and the like. There are certainly advantages to this approach. Fewer things to dust, no sentimental items in danger of being broken or stolen. But not everyone shares this perspective. One of the bookings we made on our […]
Communication covers a multitude of mistakes
I’ve recently had a months-long saga with my bedsheets. Well, not exactly the bedsheets. The woman who was supposed to clean the bedsheets, to be more precise. She had taken the linens offsite to wash them, but then never returned them. I needed to do some inventory, and asked her to bring them back. She […]
Tuesday Tip: Odor eaters
Recently I suggested switching everything you can to unscented products. That only works, however, if the smells are coming from the products. Sometimes there truly are strange smells in a space. Maybe it’s a basement that can never quite shed those musty odors, or a home located just a little too close to the local paper […]
With great power comes great responsibility
I recently got a booking inquiry from a trans man. The only way I would have known that he was trans was by him telling me, and it struck me as odd that he felt a need to tell me, a complete stranger, about such a personal matter before we’d even met. Why was it […]