Checkout sign
Hang this in the kitchen or by the door. Every task on it should already be on the listing.
Checkout sign. Printed from bnbutils.com. Ticked boxes are a working copy on this sheet. They are not a saved record.
Checkout
{Property name}
Checkout time: {Checkout time}
Before you leave
This list matches the listing. A task that is not on the listing is not required.
When to use
Hang the checkout sign where the leaving routine happens, which is usually the kitchen or the inside of the front door. {checkout_time} matches the listing and the reservation. {trash_task}, {dishes_task}, {key_task}, and {lockup_step} are the same chores as the checkout reminder message, in fewer words, because a sign is what they see with bags in hand. If the listing does not ask them to run the dishwasher, {dishes_task} should say “dishes rinsed and left in the sink” or whatever you truly published, not a wish.
The last checkbox, a look for chargers and medicine, prevents the left-behind message. It is a favor, and it is fine to keep even when the listing is brief, because it asks them to check their own pockets rather than to perform labor for you. If you hate that distinction, delete the line in your edit. Do not replace it with “strip all beds and start laundry” unless the listing already says so.
{property_name} keeps the condo sign off the house. Tick the boxes in pencil as a guest if you want them to be a list they mark. Reprint when the pencil wears through.
Timing tip
Post it before the first checkout, not the night you realize the trash never went out. The reminder message the evening before should quote the same {checkout_time} and the same tasks. Update both on the day you change the listing.
If you approved a late checkout, the sign is suddenly wrong. Tell them in the thread that {checkout_time} on the paper is replaced by the time you approved, or swap the paper if you are there. A sign that contradicts a yes is how a guest “forgets” the later agreement and also how a guest stays until the printed time after you said no.
Turnover is when you glance at the sign. If {key_task} says “lockbox by the meter” and the box moved, fix the sign before the next arrival, not after the next lost key.
Common mistakes
A second, harsher list is the first mistake. Some homes have a friendly guidebook page and a scolding door sign. Guests follow the one that sounds like the real rule, or they follow neither. {trash_task} should be identical in substance to the guidebook checkout page and the message. Three versions is how “bags go in the blue bin” becomes “bags go to the curb by 7” becomes “bags stay in the kitchen.”
The second is a fee schedule in small print. Late fees, damage fees, and extra-guest fees belong in the price terms if they exist at all. A sign that introduces a number the night before checkout is a new charge. This template keeps money off the page.
The third is {lockup_step} for the wrong hardware. A keypad instruction on a lockbox home means an unlocked door and a key in a pocket. Write the step for the door you have. Test it by doing it once with the sign in your hand.
One page, large type
If you add lines until the type shrinks, you have written a guidebook page. Move the explanations there. The sign is time, trash, dishes, towels, climate, key, lock. {dishes_task} can be a short phrase. “Please start the dishwasher if it is more than half full, using the pod in the jar, and wipe the counters, including the backsplash, and the table” will not be read. Split that into the guidebook and leave “dishes loaded, counters clear” on the sign, if that shorter line is still true to the listing.
Read it from the doorway. If {checkout_time} is not the largest fact after the title, reprint it so the time is.