Cleaning and linens inside the rent, or billed on top of it

This comes up constantly with owners new to furnished housing, and the room does not agree on it. Corporate furnished usually includes some level of service: mid stay housekeeping, linen swaps, restocking paper goods and soap, roughly every two weeks. In many markets that runs somewhere between $110 and $160 a visit for a two bedroom, so about $250 a month for two visits. Option one is to build it into the rent. The quote goes out at one number, the company approves one number, the cleaner shows up on schedule and nobody thinks about it. That is generally what relocation coordinators prefer, because their approval process handles a single line item much better than a variable one. Option two is to quote the rent lower and offer service as an add the tenant or employer selects. Some corporate tenants genuinely do not want a stranger in the unit every other week, especially on longer stays where the person has settled in and treats it as home. Charging for a service they refuse makes a headline rate look worse than a competitor who leaves it out. Option three, a single deep clean at the midpoint of any stay over three months, included, with anything else billed hourly, is workable but tends to draw complaints when a tenant expects the standard mid stay service. The reason it matters for a small owner is that $250 a month is real money on a unit doing $2,900, and it either comes out of margin or shows up on the quote. Which way would you write it?