Yeah there's a lot of junk Air BnB, but there's some half decent ones as well. You can't just randomly select and get a good one anymore. You gotta do extra due diligence. For the chore thing, I think it's valid to a certain extent. I'm usually half doing this stuff for hotels anyways as a final check to make sure nothing is left behind.
I do bedding crumpled on bed (anything extra is dumb and you can argue why it was your responsibility to wash, dry and redo the beds), towels/hand towels and those types of linens in bath tub. Washed dishes in dry rack or running in dish washer. Quick sweep or vacuum if anything visual or obvious, and wiping of water around sinks/taps or a quick scrub of a major stain from a spill or something etc.
Also, like a rental car, I'll also take a quick video when I arrive and when I leave to show the state it was in when I showed up, and when I left. I've never had an issue. I think it's also easier to keep the host from doing anything if you message, "We did the cleaning as instructed and took some pictures and videos after cleaning, just in case. Thanks for hosting us! We had a great time."
I and my family got great reviews on Air BnB which surprised us. We did the place up as requested to probably barely passable for a dorm inspection type of cleaning and we've frequently received comments that the owners were happy we treated the unit like it was our own. It's not like we cleaned to hotel standards (been there, done that for a few summers during uni) or army standards clean or in laws requirements of cleaning anything close to that level of cleaning. People must be leaving the place looking like an uncleaned college dorm to get bad reviews on lack of cleaning.
And if there's an Air Bnb with in unity laundry that requests you toss a load into the laundry (for towels, bedding etc.) before you leave the unit... I love those ones! With kids, you can conveniently run a load or two when they expectedly make a mess on their clothing. Last time I was in the States, we had an Air BnB like this and we ran like a dozen loads of laundry while there and we scrubbed and cleaned over and over. I couldn't imagine how embarrassed we'd be in a hotel requesting replacement sheets and stuff over and over because the little ones had gotten some stomach bug and were randomly throwing up on ####. I don't mind the extra 20-30 minutes of extra cleaning if I can exploit the #### out of those facilities while I'm staying there.
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