Hey friends! New-ish host, freshly minted Superhost, and first-time poster here. Thanks for reading 🙂
Our listing is a mother-in-law basement unit in our single family home. Guests have a private entrance, and they first enter a small "foyer" room (which has a welcome sign), before continuing through another door into the unit itself. I'm considering putting a camera in the "foyer", facing the exterior door. Two main reasons:
1) Guests often don't tell me when they have departed. I want to know immediately so I can begin turning the unit over, and I don't want to harass them about it.
2) No issues with this yet, but I'd like to know who is coming and going, to get ahead of potential issues with extra guests or parties.
The "foyer" room is isolated from the unit itself by a solid door, which has a deadbolt, so guests will always close and lock that door after they go inside. Absolutely no cameras inside the unit itself.
Any feel on whether people might get upset about this? Of course, I would update my listing to make it very clear that there is a camera and where it is.
Thanks!