Tuesday Tips

Tuesday Tip: Confront conflict

    Clear house rules are important. But it’s naive to think that your rules, no matter how detailed, will cover every possible scenario. (I never ever would have thought to create a rule about no plaster heads in the oven!) Eventually, issues are going to come up.  That’s more or less inevitable. The key […]

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Tuesday Tip: Clear house rules

    We’ve got a guest staying with us right now who’s here for an internship in special effects makeup and design. Her project while she’s here is basically to design and create a model alien.  You can’t imagine the mess it’s been causing.  There are knives and clippings all over her bedroom floor. The […]

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Tuesday Tip: Backup keys

  Personally, I don’t like giving guests keys at all. I prefer codes that can be changed once they’ve left. However, if you are going to go with keys, last week’s Tuesday Tip is a great example of what can go awry if you’re not careful. Even the most organized of hosts can make mistakes. […]

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Tuesday Tip: Keys

    I recently stayed in an Airbnb place in Pennsylvania. After I checked in, I decided to head out for the afternoon, and the host made sure to give me a key to the house before I left. Except there was a problem: she gave me the wrong key! I didn’t find this out […]

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Tuesday Tip: towel rods

  If you’re hosting multiple guests in your space, make sure you have places in the bathroom for all of them to hang their towels. You can get towel hooks that screw into the wall, over the door hooks, towel rods…the possibilities are many. Just make sure they don’t have to resort to hanging their towels […]

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