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Pest Control in Japanese Short-Term Rentals: A Prevention Checklist

A few summers ago I got a message from a guest at one of our Tokyo properties at 11pm: a cockroach had walked across the kitchen counter. Nobody got hurt, nothing was damaged, and the guest was actually pretty chill about it — but the review that followed mentioned it anyway, and it sat on our listing for months. That one message taught me more about pest prevention than any cleaning checklist ever had.