Airbnb Cleaning New Orleans

Airbnb cleaning New Orleans hosts pay for is a different job from house cleaning, and hosts who treat it the same way end up with a 4.2 cleanliness rating and a same-day cancellation. A turnover is a deadline with a checklist attached: four hours, sometimes less, to reset a unit for a stranger who is already texting you about the door code.

Cleanliness is the category guests grade hardest and the one that sinks listings fastest. One turnover where the shower grout got skipped or the coffee ran out shows up in a review that sits on your page for a year. So the scope here is fixed and the crew works a list, not a vibe: strip and remake every bed, reset the bathroom to hotel state, run and put away the dishes, wipe every surface a guest touched, restock the consumables, take out the trash, set the thermostat, lock up, and send you photos.

Airbnb cleaning New Orleans — what a turnover includes

Damage documentation matters more than hosts expect. A photo timestamped between checkout and check-in is the difference between a paid claim and your word against a guest's.

Turnover pricing, up front

Flat rate by unit size and bathroom count — the same estimator our house-cleaning customers use. Pick the size, the frequency, and any add-ons, and the number shows before you book anything.

Running multiple doors, or need a standing schedule tied to your calendar? Call (504) 315-8112 and we'll set it up as a route instead of one-off bookings.

Where we turn units over

• French Quarter — courtyard units and carriage houses, most of them up a narrow staircase with no elevator. We plan the kit around the stairs.
• Marigny & Bywater — shotgun doubles split into units, old wood floors that get a damp pass and nothing wetter.
• Treme & Mid-City — steady mix of doubles and renovated singles near the Fair Grounds, which matters enormously the last weekend in April.
• Garden District & Lower Garden — larger homes, multiple baths, bigger linen loads.
• Uptown & Riverbend — game-weekend and parents-weekend rentals near the universities.
• Metairie, Kenner & near MSY — airport-adjacent rentals with early check-ins and crew stays.

The festival calendar runs this business. Jazz Fest, French Quarter Fest, Essence, Mardi Gras, Sugar Bowl weekend — your unit books back-to-back with no gap day, and that's exactly when a flaky cleaner disappears on you. Those weekends get planned in advance on our end, not scrambled the morning of.

The humidity is the other local factor nobody warns new hosts about. Linens left in a closed-up unit with the AC at 78 come out smelling musty, and guests notice immediately. We don't leave damp laundry sitting, and we set the thermostat back down before we lock the door.

Why hosts hand us the keys

We're based at 1400 Cleary Ave in Metairie, licensed and insured in Louisiana. Short-term rental permitting in New Orleans is the city's own maze — check current requirements directly with the City of New Orleans; we handle the cleaning side.

Getting started takes three steps

1. Price the unit. Size, bathrooms, frequency, add-ons. A minute, online.
2. Send us the schedule. One-off turnovers you can book yourself; for a full calendar, call and we'll build a standing route around your bookings.
3. Get your photo report. Every clean ends with images of the finished unit and anything that needs your attention.

Airbnb cleaning New Orleans — host questions

Linens, par levels, and what new hosts get wrong

The single biggest operational mistake we see is one set of linens per bed. One set means every turnover waits on a dryer, and a dryer is the thing that makes you miss a 3pm check-in. Two full sets per bed is the working minimum; three if the unit books back to back through festival season.

The second mistake is white-only towels with no backups. New Orleans guests bring makeup, sunscreen, and red drink. Keep a retired-towel bin and rotate stained ones out before they show up in a photo review rather than after.

Third: mattress protectors. They cost less than one claim and they turn a ruined mattress into a laundry load. We check them on every turnover and tell you when one needs replacing.

Access, keys, and the things that go wrong at 2pm

• Lockbox or smart lock — a code we can use without meeting anyone. Quarter courtyard gates often need a second code; give us both.
• A supply closet that locks — par stock lives on site, not in our van.
• Your checkout time in writing — if a guest lingers past 11, we need to know before the crew is on the sidewalk.
• Somewhere to put trash — pickup days differ block to block in the Quarter and Marigny, and a bin left on the curb the wrong day is a citation.

One local warning worth more than any cleaning tip: never leave food in a closed-up unit between guests. In this climate that's how a listing gets its first roach review, and that review outlives the guest by a year.