Airbnb Cleaning in Bushkill, PA

Bushkill is the closest concentration of rental inventory to East Stroudsburg -- 12.4 miles and about 21 minutes north on US 209 -- which makes it the easiest place in this market to hold a tight checkout-to-check-in window.

It is also the clearest example of what a private community here actually is. Saw Creek Estates holds nearly 3,000 properties behind its own gate, with 24-hour public safety patrols and video surveillance, a private ski area with a chairlift and snowmaking, four outdoor and two indoor pools, indoor tennis and two lakes. About half of it is weekend homes. Its census population is around 4,100 in Saw Creek alone, and ZIP 18324 has the highest population density in Pike County -- which is simply another way of saying that the density is the communities.

A weekend house is used hard for two days and closed for five, and both halves of that need cleaning. Guests arrive off US 209 with boots and gear, the traffic funnels through one door, and the work concentrates at the entry and moves inward. Then the house sits with dust still arriving through vents and door seals. We run turnovers against your checkout window and recurring visits while it is empty, and plenty of owners here book both.

Access is arranged in advance or it is not arranged at all. In a gated community with its own patrols, the association office registers guests and vehicles and decides who comes through -- not the owner with the lockbox code. We ask which community a property is in at quote time and work that out with the office before the first visit.

Bushkill sits low, at 377 feet, so it gets the valley winter rather than the plateau winter. Bushkill Falls is here, and so is a large stretch of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, nearly 70,000 acres of it, which is a good part of why guests book this end of the market in the first place.