Airbnb's new house rules: the questions managers are asking, and what we found

Vacation Rental Scale-Up · Oct 23, 2026 · 12m

No more washing dishes before checkout? Guests might be celebrating. But for Airbnb hosts and property managers, the bigger question is: Who decides what's reasonable to ask of guests?

Starting November 20, Airbnb is changing how house rules work. Binding rules are limited to Airbnb's predefined categories, while everything else becomes a nonbinding request.

So, Thibault Masson put Airbnb's new automated rules checker to the test, running around 20 scenarios involving checkout chores, cleaning fines, guest IDs, rental agreements, and safety instructions.

Here's what we explore:

The new…