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Airbnb guests can say goodbye to checkout chores like washing dishes, stripping beds and taking out the trash under a new policy announced this week.

Mixed reactions pour in following a new policy change from Airbnb limiting guest chores, such as washing dishes and stripping bedsheets. NBC News' Vicky Nguyen has the story.

Customers don’t have “to complete tasks that require significant effort or time, or would typically be performed by a cleaner,” according to the home-sharing app.

<p>Accommodation platform acts after long-standing guest complaints over doing dishes, taking out rubbish and stripping beds</p><p>Airbnb hosts will no longer be able to ask guests to strip beds or wash dishes under the accommodation platform’s new rules.</p><p>The changes, which apply to Airbnb reservations covered by the platform’s global policy, <a href="

The updated policy will apply to all reservations booked on the accommodation site on or after 20 November.

Hosts are threatening to leave the platform after Airbnb says that they can no longer require guests to strip beds or do other time-consuming cleaning chores.

Some hosts are threatening to strike, while others are plotting ways around Airbnb’s new restrictions. Guests, meanwhile, are celebrating.

Under the new policy, hosts can no longer require guests to strip beds or wash and put away dishes.

Checking out of your next Airbnb might be less of a hassle now that the company is banning hosts from including time-consuming chores in their house rules. Airbnb's updated house rules policy, which starts with reservations booked on or after November 20th, says hosts can't ask guests to "complete tasks that require significant effort or […]