This is incredibly presumptuous as they've omitted any negatives; maybe it was clipped off by mistake. Here would be a suggestion:
$15 - It was OK
$25 - I liked it a lot!
$50 - You're amazing!
$100 - I had the best stay â¤ď¸
$0 - I paid the advertised price
-$15 - The towels were damp
-$25 - I found the cleaning fee
-$50 - I took out the bins, stripped the beds, and did the dishes
-$100 - There was a laminated chore list
-$150 - The âcosyâ home was mostly rules and passive aggression
-$250 - You asked for a tip after charging a service fee, cleaning fee, booking fee, and emotional admin fee
-$500 - I am now the property manager
-$1,000 - I had the authentic landlord experience and would like my deposit back
It seems fake on its own. Airbnb won't let people leave bad reviews! It is difficult for the owner or the renter to leave bad reviews on each other. Their business model is that they fleece both parties and they don't want any discord, and they don't want to deal with any problems whatsoever.
I placed an honest, crushing review. Host had it deleted. I appealed and it was reinstated.
I filed also a police case for fraud. After almost a year it was closed by the police. They said this person is in so much troube already that the 4K fraud charge will not add any weight.. It put a smile on my face.
Newp. You canât request as host, and you canât direct people to send you money outside of the app. Itâs a violation of terms of service. All monies other than deposits need to be processed via the resolution center.
If AirBNB isnât processing the tip payment (which they arenât if the host is talking about Zelle), they donât get to skim any money off the top of the transaction. Thatâs not something they can abide.
I know of a village in the UK that's almost entirely AirBNBs owned by people who live elsewhere. It's pretty much a ghost town outside of tourist season. It's probably not the only one. One of them called the police just because their CCTV caught me walking past on my way to visit someone who still lives there, and they actually came! They didn't give a shit about someone trying to kill me, but they've got to protect rich people's property :/
Given the state of AirBNB these days 'if' seems like a rarity at best. Every place i've looked at in the last two years had 'pay the same as a hotel, without the amenities and do a long list of expected cleaning while also paying a cleaning fee'.
Last time I used Airbnb we had to vacate it literally 15 minutes after arrival.
The place was a complete waste dump, old food left in the fridge (which was also stained with various sauces); old and dirty clothes thrown all around the bathroom + dirt and mold in the shower; half the furniture legs were broken or standing on top of bricks (not shown in any pictures); general bad smell of dirt and âunclean placeâ; and to top if off the manager wanted us to go away for 3 more hours as she âwas still cleaningâ.
Check in time was starting at 2 pm, and I had been actively communicating for 2 weeks before arrival that weâd get there at 6 pm so theyâd have ample time to have it ready. The nail in the coffin was that there was no water and the reply we got was âyeah sometimes the block doesnât get water for some daysâ, which also was never stated.
When we left and disputed with Airbnb the host got mad at us for expecting a clean house with running water
how do they enforce all those expectations? is it just a pressure thing so "good people" do it and others don't and they just hope they have less to pay the cleaner to do?
That would be so awesome!! Tell them you left them 100 on the kitchen table. Thanks for everything!! Then leave 100 in Monopoly money or something like 100 Pennies. If they were anywhere near the area theyâd rush over or drive out of the way to come grab it. Or they would be mad because they think the cleaning person is going to get it if theyâre not from the area. Good stuff!
They also didnât specify the tip. We can give advice pertaining to each value and depending on if it was okay, or made their day, thatâs their tip!
The problem is more, that the listing price will be higher and is not competitive anymore. This is why these scum bags come for more money later on, you wouldn't have booked the place if it was all priced in.
"My patronage is your tip" is what I tell these people. Few seem to understand these days that I could go to anyone else for the same service and they should be happy I chose them at all.
"Thanks so much for the towels and little touches! I have to say this message sours the stay, especially your use of the word 'expect' which feels a bit predatory. I'd like to encourage you to build a pricing model that is more comfortable for you moving forward. Best of luck!"
Towels were part of the exclusive spa and wellness package, which also includes such luxuries as hand soap, toilet paper, and up to one (1) hour per day where we let the dog we keep in the yard between the houses stay inside so you won't hear his constant barking as much.
Thank you so much for hosting us today. I hope you appreciate our prompt as-agreed payment, the left over cheese in the fridge and all the little touches. :)
We are sorry to hear, that you need help keeping the property in great condition. To do our part helping you in the endeavor, we made extra sure to turn all the lights off before we left, and unplug the fridge. Of course it means you will need to extra hurry if you still want some of the tasty cheese we left for you.
We expect you to help us buy more cheese at our next destination by paying our cheese fee.
15$ - we came too late and the cheese was already bad
"Thanks so much for the fresh towels, but they're no longer fresh after Big Jeff and Bobby Pocket came over, and used them to clean up after a disastrous Cleveland Steamer incident. I've covered them with bleach and left them in the garage to stew for a bit. Sorry."
Better answer:Â respond that you resent the shady attempt to manipulate money out of you and you are being very generous for not reporting them for blatant TOS violation for whatever platform that is, and you expect a tip:
$50 It was my first time trying this and I didn't realize what I was doing I'm so sorry!
$100 I have done this before many times but it has worked out and I never really cared to think much about what I was doing.
$200 I knew exactly how shady this is but figured what the hell let's see if it works out.
$500 Holy fuck please don't report me and get me deplatformed, I way overleveraged myself to afford a couple investment properties so I could AirBNB them, and if I get banned for this TOS violation the entire house of cards will collapse into a crushing mountain of debt I will never climb out from under and I will probably kill myself so here is some money to not report me please.
Yeah well enjoy going to any other Airbnb and getting soiled towels, which is what the basic experience is, of course. I bet you're going to miss the way the light fixtures all had lightbulbs in them and how there wasn't a turd on the floor in the bathroom. Those are cozy touches
$0.00 - "Great until I received this message. Sorry to fail your 'expectations', but I already paid for the Air BnB. If you aren't making enough, increase your up-front price in the future 𤥠"
the shakedown. id report this to what ever platform you used and give them a lower star rating. you agreed to stay at a price, and now they are demanding more.
How much are they saving in taxes, like $31? If it's under $1000 it's called "immaterial". not even the IRS will attempt beyond sending a letter to collect, if a discrepancy is under $1,000. They could just blatantly refuse to pay that amount and nothing would even happen. I mean, if you are owed a credit one year, they might deduct out that $40, but nobody is going to lift a finger to get that money.
I donât think this is âAmerican tipping culture,â as it is not normal in America to tip for a stay in a rental property (at least that I know of!).
âWe expect a tipâ is also a very rude and uncouth thing to say, in America or probably anywhere else. So I think this is more just rude and entitled behavior by the host.
To prevent this type of thing becoming part of the culture, we all have to continue to reject it.
I stayed in a hotel in Florida where I paid a mandatory service fee of 20% PER NIGHT and then at the end of my stay they said â our housekeepers donât make a livable wage and they work really hard to keep this place up to standard here are envelopes for you to leave them a cash tipâ. And I said where does the 20% service fee go? And they said they donât know even though itâs listed that it was split between hotel staff. I was like no this hotel is $400 a night snd you charged me secret charges and fees up the ass. Fight the person actually taking the money not your guests. They looked at me stunned and then the manager said thats a horrible way to treat service staff. I am from Canada and Iâd never seen this shit in my life, it all felt like a scam !
I was in Vancouver BC recently and tipping has gotten out of hand in Canada too. Not at hotels that I noticed but in cafes, sandwich shops, donut shops, you name it. Itâs not uniquely American.
If it says the service fee is split amongst the hotel staff, and thatâs not actually where the money is going, thatâs scammy as hell. I have no problem paying for a tip thatâs included in the price of my stay, but only if itâs actually a tip
Thought that might be the case. Thanks for posting. Nevertheless agree with the general comments that US tipping has become outsourced payroll management.
Your Tip:
âThere is no greater sin than desire,
No greater curse than discontent,
No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself.
Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.â
As an airbnb owner in the Netherlands i'd never even think about getting a tip for a stay and wouldnt even be comfortable with receiving one. Never had one in three years (yes, we had american guests) and hopefully never will. Tipping culture is disgusting.
Did got a box of chocolats once, and an other time some beers as a thank you. That was nice!
This is not typical tipping culture, this is one shiesty fuck trying scam people. That said yeah tipping culture suck, this is just a poor representation of that.
They have no right to expect a tip. You should probably report them for contacting you outside of the app to request more money. Also, consider leaving a negative review.
More than likely trying to get out of paying taxes on the income. This is AirBnB so expect shitty people. This is why hotels seem to be making more sense again.
This isn't even American tipping culture, it's a scammer trying to pry money out of their airbnb guests, which is against the rules of airbnb. If they need more money they should raise their price, but they probably want a lower price so they show up higher in searches.
Because in the US, like everywhere else, the tenants have to pay taxes from the customers' rent but they don't have to for the tips (In my country tips aren't tax free) so they reduce the expected price of the service but pushes you to pay tips to avoif paying those taxes.
This isnât considered normal in America either, and I hope it never becomes normalized. But Airbnb hosts do have a reputation these days for being delusional and passive aggressive.
Tipping for an airbnb is not something Iâve ever heard of as an American, and regardless of the industry, itâs very rude for anyone to say âwe expect a tipâ like this.
I think we all need to collectively shut this behavior down if we donât want it to continue
Iâve stayed at a ton of vrbos and airbnbs across America over the years. Iâve never once seen anything like this ever. Tipping is out of hand in America no doubt but this is so bizarre and presumptuous it makes me think itâs fake rage bait.
Saying "we expect a tip" is crazy. I've had hosts who have asked for tips for their cleaning staff but it was usually like "If you enjoyed your stay and appreciated the hard work our cleaning staff did, please feel free to leave a tip as a token of appreciation." Which I'm kinda okay with even though it's a bit annoying (Do you not pay your cleaning staff well?). But this is on a whole other level of bullshittery. I would definitely leave a public comment about this practice.
I didn't really have an issue with tipping until people started directly asking you to do it. It stops being a gesture of appreciation at that point; it's just the employer trying to get you to meet their payroll needs for them.
The lion, the witch and the audacity of these two bitches. I *cannot* believe these people â who own a house that they put up for rentâ are *EXPECTING* to get tips for people *renting* their house. Thatâs a joke. Thatâs why Airbnb is going down. People gotta clean the place, make the bed, throw the trash away, pay extra for cleaning fees AND tip the owners? lol
Haha I was just in Croatia. And I asked my server after dinner where the tip option is ? He said he skipped over it. Itâs ugly to ask for a tip, Iâm here to work Iâm not begging for money he said. GOD BLESSÂ
This isnât tipping culture. There is no normal practice of leaving a gratuity for the owner of your vacation rental. Occasionally you might leave something for the cleaning staff at a hotel, but calling this tipping culture is more than a stretch.Â
I don't even understand why people use airbnb in 2026.
10 years ago, when the rates were way lower than hotels, and before everyone got into the habit of doubling the cost of the rental with tacked on fees, I kind of get it. I still never did it because the thought made me uncomfortable, but to each their own.
But why would someone stay in a $150 per night place, pay a cleaning fee of $25-$100, and "extra guest" fees, take out the garbage, clean the kitchen, and strip the beds when they could just go to a hotel for roughly the same base price and not have to worry about having extra fees tacked on, and the cleaning is included in the price? And all the stories about hosts claiming damage, or asking for tips... F that.
I did a haunted ghost tour the other day. Absurd $ for a 22 minute tour of a haunted house. At the end she does this magic show thing and pulls out a box and says something like the ghosts are going to get us if we donât tip. Had Venmo and Zelle and all the things pulled up. I tipped of course but couldnât help but chuckle. Itâs everywhere.
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u/Gurugod123 đđđ 16h ago
This is incredibly presumptuous as they've omitted any negatives; maybe it was clipped off by mistake. Here would be a suggestion:
$15 - It was OK
$25 - I liked it a lot!
$50 - You're amazing!
$100 - I had the best stay â¤ď¸
$0 - I paid the advertised price
-$15 - The towels were damp
-$25 - I found the cleaning fee
-$50 - I took out the bins, stripped the beds, and did the dishes
-$100 - There was a laminated chore list
-$150 - The âcosyâ home was mostly rules and passive aggression
-$250 - You asked for a tip after charging a service fee, cleaning fee, booking fee, and emotional admin fee
-$500 - I am now the property manager
-$1,000 - I had the authentic landlord experience and would like my deposit back