So terrible!
How much time would it take to clean that? How long was the sit?
Hello @KatieKirsten welcome to the forum.
Clearly you are upset at the outcome of your THsitter experience.
Can you offer more info so members can post soundly to your concerns.
The only thing I see as âfilthyâ is what looks like a shower glass door.
Provide more more info if your up for itâŚ
Itâs absolutely disgusting and unfortunately itâs very often the case that sitters leave the place like this. I had about one sitter from 10 that really cleaned.
After a sitter has been in my house I always organize a cleaning firm.
I am a sitter. I am pretty sure that I could have found a breadcrumb near toasters at the beginning of several of my sits.
When I start cleaning at the end of a sit, I often find places that must have been dirty or sticky when I got there.
That is not what filthy is.
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@Coclico I donât want to engage in what is clean and not. Many times that has been discussed and there is a continuum of expectations and tolerances from both THsitters and home hosts (a @Colin shout out. I like âhome hostâ)
I would like to know how we can help the OP based on their situation.
As a sitter, Iâd never leave a home like that. Itâs not what Iâd call filthy, but itâs dirty and disrespectful if everything was clean when the sitter found it at handoff.
Did the sitterâs reviews include references to their leaving sit homes clean? Iâd certainly recommend that hosts check for such if cleanliness matters to them. And I say that as a sitter.
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Itâs pretty gross and as a sitter I definitely wouldnât leave things like that (at least for the food in the sink and the shower screen; the toaster seems to be beside the hob so Iâm not surprised itâs splashed but I also think itâs an easy thing for someone to miss when cleaning). I wouldnât describe this as a âhouse left filthyâ though. Like @HelloOutThere, Iâm wondering how we can help you, @KatieKirsten ?
Well, how does that compare to picking up after the pets?
Maybe I should start taking photos of the houses I arrive in as a sitter. I get much worse than this even in the cleaner houses and write it off as people rushing out the door on the way to the airport etc⌠what I see in these photos is maybe a bit careless but in no way can it be called filthy.
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I think so many people differ on what can be described as âfilthyâ and âcleanâ. As a sitter, I have noted in our profile that my husband and I like to live in an âorderlyâ environment so a homeowner knows they will be getting a sitter that will maintain a good level of tidiness in their home. Iâve also seen homeowners state in their profile they expect a certain level of tidiness. Iâm probably one of those sitters who may be over the top as to how I leave a place when I do a sit. I always make sure I have a toothbrush with me - not for brushing my teeth but for cleaning 
I donât consider this filthy. I have arrived at a couple petsits that were worse than this. I just cleaned it up and moved on
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Were your animals well cared for?
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Our rule of thumb is that when we sit, we want the house to look a little cleaner than we found it, if possible - it doesnât hurt anything to go the extra mile. And when we have sitters, we expect our house to be left the way it was when they arrive. In every case but one, that has been our experience, too. Our sitters, except for that one, have been awesome, attentive, tidy, and a joy to have at our home(s).
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The problem is that the HO cannot really know much about the animal care. The pet cannot tell how much company or belly rubs they had. If the walks were nice. Or if they had been yanked on the leash all the time and yelled at, or maybe even been hit or kicked.
But they can see how much effort the sitter had spent on the final clean, and then they could take photos of the breadcrumb on the toaster and of a little bit of pasta in the kitchen sink.
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Hello everyone
Iâm just popping on to confirm that Iâve had to remove a couple of posts from this discussion because they broke Community Guidelines - I just wanted to leave a general reminder about being kind and respectful even if you disagree with someone.
Everyone has different expectations of things like cleanliness. OP hasnât done anything wrong by coming here to post in the ownerâs section to vent, we all need to do that sometimes, and this should be an opportunity for people to share advice and tips on how to prevent the situation from happening again, or how to better communicate cleaning standards to future sitters. Replies like the one from @HelloOutThere who understood and asked OP to provide more information to help members know how to help, were just the sort of things we need.
Iâm not going to close this discussion as suggested in one of the posts I removed (unless @KatieKirsten would like us to), but I did want to politely ask that members donât refer to posts they donât agree with as trolling (which was also mentioned in a post I removed). We should always assume that people come to the forum and ask questions in good faith, and if they canât be approached with kindness and respect then it might be best to wait and respond to something that you can be more constructive about.
Thanks to everyone who took the time to ask OP for more information or to give a kind response, even if it wasnât in agreement with them.
Jenny
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Hello everyone,
As requested by the OP, Iâm now closing this thread.
Jenny
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