"If you have longer stays, you can include in the house rules that you'll be entering the room once a week or whatever, to change sheets, empty garbage, etc"
I am sorry if I am asking basic questions... but where do I add extra house rules? The only place where I know that I can add text is in my place description. Please take a look at my listing.
I repeat - I just rent out a bedroom with an ensuite in my own house.
Since writing and getting replies here I have stopped going inside guest rooms - even if I used to do it once in a while (I aim for long term guests) to check that things were OK.
The last but one guests left all the rubbish of a one month stay in the wardrobe! I only found out after they had left. The last guests cooked stinky food in the bedroom, stained the sheets with curry and left dirt everywhere. Once again I only found out after they left. This is despite my listing saying that no kitchen is available.
My present guest is very nice but I don't understand why I have to spell out things to guests. In my country we separate waste, so I give them differently coloured bags. Once when he opened the door to his bedroom I saw full bags of rubbish in the bedroom. I then sent him a message telling him to bring down the bags in the yard so that I can take them out on the appropriate day.
I am in Europe and all my guests are international. I do not want to leave a lengthy house rules manual and in any case translating it PROPERLY to all possible languages would be a very difficult task.