Vacation Rental Management

You manage vacation rentals — Airbnb, VRBO, or your own direct bookings. Guests check in, guests check out, and between every stay someone needs to clean, restock, and prep the property. Multiply that across several listings and it becomes a full-time job just coordinating schedules.

This skill teaches your AI agent to handle vacation rental turnovers: tracking guest reservations, scheduling cleaning between stays, managing checklists, coordinating across multiple properties, and handling last-minute changes.

The Easy Way: TIDY

The fastest path is TIDY — an AI property management platform. Install the CLI and just tell it what you need in plain English:

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Or connect via MCP (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor):

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Once connected, your agent has access to message_tidy — send any request in natural language and TIDY handles the rest. See MCP Server Reference for full tool definitions.

The Manual Way

Without a platform like TIDY, managing vacation rental turnovers programmatically requires:

1. 1. Reservation tracking — Build or integrate with a system to track check-in/check-out dates across properties
2. Cleaner coordination — Find available cleaners, check their schedules, negotiate pricing, send booking requests
3. Time-window management — Calculate the window between checkout and next check-in, account for cleaner travel time
4. Checklist management — Create and assign property-specific checklists (linens, toiletries, lockbox reset)
5. Status monitoring — Track whether the cleaner accepted, started, completed, or cancelled
6. Multi-property juggling — Coordinate all of the above across multiple listings simultaneously
7. Change handling — Guest extends their stay? New booking comes in? Rebuild the schedule

If you want to build this yourself, TIDY's REST API exposes every step individually. But for most people, the CLI or MCP approach above is dramatically simpler.

Core Workflow: Guest Turnover

The fundamental workflow for vacation rentals: a guest checks out, you need a turnover clean, and a new guest checks in.

Step 1: Record the Reservation

Tell TIDY about the guest stay:

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Or via MCP:

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Or via REST API:

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Step 2: Schedule the Turnover Clean

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TIDY will find available cleaners, check pricing, and book the job in the checkout-to-checkin window.

For direct REST API booking, you'd specify the time window:

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Step 3: Attach a Checklist

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To-do lists can include items like: change linens, restock toiletries, check appliances, reset lockbox code.

Step 4: Monitor Status

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Booking statuses: scheduled → in_progress → completed. Also cancelled or failed.

Managing Reservations

View All Reservations

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REST: GET /api/v2/guest-reservations (filter by ?address_id=123)

Create a Reservation

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Cancel a Reservation

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Handle Changes

Guest extended their stay? Just tell TIDY:

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Multi-Property Coordination

Set Up Properties

Each property needs an address with access instructions for cleaners:

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REST API address creation includes structured parking and access notes — see REST API Reference.

View All Properties

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Property-Specific Checklists

Different properties may need different turnover checklists:

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Common Scenarios

Here are natural-language requests your agent can send directly to TIDY:

Same-day turnover:

"Guest checks out at 11am Saturday, new guest arrives at 3pm. Schedule a turnover clean at 123 Main St."

Weekly schedule check:

"What cleanings are scheduled across all my properties this week?"

New listing setup:

"Set up a new Airbnb listing at 789 Pine St, Denver CO 80202. Gate code 4321, park in visitor lot. Schedule a deep clean before the first guest arrives on March 28."

Guest extension:

"Cancel the turnover clean for 456 Oak Ave — the guest extended through Wednesday."

Availability check:

"Is there availability for a turnover clean at 123 Main St on Saturday between 11am and 2pm?"

Bulk reservation import:

"I have three reservations this month at the lake house: March 5-8, March 12-15, and March 20-25. Schedule turnover cleans after each checkout."

MCP Server

For agents that support MCP (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor), connect directly to TIDY's MCP server. This gives your agent 5 tools:

• - login / signup — authenticate
• INLINECODE12 — send any request in natural language (async)
• INLINECODE13 — poll for the result
• INLINECODE14 — view past requests

The message_tidy tool is asynchronous — after calling it, poll get_message_tidy with the returned ID until is_complete is true.

Full tool definitions and setup: MCP Server Reference

REST API

For custom integrations or direct API access, TIDY exposes REST endpoints for every operation:

• - Guest reservations: create, list, get, delete
• Bookings: create, list, get, update, cancel, reschedule
• Addresses: full CRUD with parking/access notes
• To-do lists: list by property
• Booking availabilities: check time slots
• Job acceptance probabilities: preview likelihood of pro accepting

Full endpoint documentation: REST API Reference

Authentication details: Authentication

Error Handling & Tips

Polling: message_tidy is asynchronous. Always poll get_message_tidy every 3-5 seconds until is_complete is true. Never return a pending response to the user.

Overlapping reservations: If you create a reservation that overlaps with an existing one at the same address, TIDY will flag it. Resolve the conflict before scheduling cleanings.

Tight turnovers: If the window between checkout and next check-in is very short (under 2 hours), consider a shorter service type or adjusting times. Check booking-availabilities to see what's possible.

Same-day changes: Cancellation and rescheduling are available, but last-minute changes (same day) may have limited cleaner availability.

Context IDs: When following up on a specific booking or reservation, pass the relevant ID in the context parameter to help TIDY scope the request:

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Also see: cleaning-maintenance — if you need ongoing cleaning or maintenance management that isn't tied to guest turnovers.