@Michelle2145 @Huma0 @Anonymous
We have had only 3 guests who worked from home. I chalk this up to our 2 week max time. As a former Californian, I would not allow a renter to occupy our bunkhouse for 28 days or longer because it would give them tenant's rights. If they did not pay, or violated your rules, you would be required to go through a formal eviction. The rules are easier for a room in your house, but would still give your renter a free month or 2 while you went through filing and serving them with the papers. I have never come across the request for 2 back-to-back bookings giving the guest the status of tenant. I would decline on the basis of the request making me "uncomfortable" with the violation of my stated occupancy time limit. (My acceptance rate has gone down to 85% or so sometimes). Having never used instant book, I am not sure how this would work, but I believe you get 3 "free" cancellations.
One of the work from home guests brought her 2 girls, who watched TV and played in the yard while mom worked on her computer in the bedroom. It worked out fine, but I could see it not working for very long without us turning into a free/included child care service. A couple of hours of honorary grand-kids was fine with us. She only worked from home for one day of the stay.
Our dedicated work space is big enough for my large laptop, and nothing else, it is a drop down little cute thing with a school chair guaranteed to get you up out of it after ~ 45 minutes! The chair was surplus from the local college, if it is good enough for a college, it is good enough for us. Vintage & 50's looking stuff is what we do. The kitchen chairs are much more comfortable, and the counter space is very good for spreading out with your work stuff, I have used it myself to check it out. Since that is where the coffee is, that is where most work, from the amount of crumbs I clean up there! I do not have a real good photo of that area, and I do not think I will take one now, after reading your comments. Thanks!
We have a regular guest who works all night at the local hospital and sleeps all day, I could not ask for a better guest than Tobin. Super quiet, he is asleep. Super clean, he is a traveling ER nurse. No computer that I have seen, he never logs into the WiFi network. Always leaves us a 5 star review. I wish we could fill our place with more of his kind of renter. I had more cards made, and am planing to make some rounds of the local hospital and the VA hospital and maybe the local nursing school at the community college.
Ted & Chris