Trashy Behavior
One of the things you should do as a courtesy before leaving your Airbnb is to take out the trash. It’s a nice thing to do. It’s not a must. They can ask you to do it, as part of their check-out instructions. But they can’t make you do it. Especially not if you pay a cleaning fee. One commenter wrote about this: “Same here. I have to drag the trash bag down a block in the city to their trash collection point in the rain and still paid a cleaning fee.”
Often Airbnb hosts make the experience unpleasant for their guests by expecting them to clean AND pay a cleaning fee and then threatening them too. I wonder if this kind of host behavior is a response to one too many rude guests that left a horrible mess in the apartment. But even if it is, other guests shouldn’t suffer because of that.