Hi @Susan608,
I’ve been hosting for 5 months now, and I can’t say that I experience this level of disruption. I manage my three rooms by:
I have a lockbox for a self-checkin facility and set up the instructions with good quality photographs and specific instructions. If you want to go to bed before the guest arrives, send them a quick message saying sorry you’ll miss them that evening but will catch up with them later in the stay and the key is in the lockbox. Leave a light on in their room, and the door open for them so they find it.
Don’t respond during night-time hours. Just message first thing in the morning, with a “sorry about the delay in responding but I was asleep”. I’ve never had anyone get mad at me, and you get your sleep which makes all of us better people when we do respond.
I’ve changed my front door to have a key lock on both sides. House rules: Lock it on your way in, and lock it on your way out. That way no-one needs to keep track of other people’s movements and no-one is home alone in an insecure home. It also means they cannot leave without a way to get back in. Also, when they leave they are used to having the key with them, they secure the door, and post it through the letterbox - no missing keys.
I only clean the bathroom when a guest arrives, or every week (whichever is sooner). I normally end up cleaning the shared bathroom about 3-4 times a week. Maybe controversial, but I’ve not had anyone complain about cleanliness yet. I do change this policy with particularly messy guests so they don’t impact on others.
Build a stock of standard supplies at home, and replenish along with your normal shopping cycles. If you get a pot of instant coffee and put it next to the fancy machine, along with some good quality instructions for the using the machine in the house manual, you should be able to cover all bases.
As for bug removal... I would tell them to manage it themselves unless we are talking about tarantulas or something?! Lol. Or maybe this is one service you have to provide still 😉
Hope all that helps! Feel free to ask if you want more detail or whatever.
Matt