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Hi @Stu! I actually do this right now. I am converting my basement to a walk-out (the cement steps were poured yesterday!) and it will have 1 bed, 1 bath, and a living room with kitchenette and no direct access to the “family” part of the home. We never used the basement really anyway. In the interim, we are renting our guest room upstairs on the same floor as our bedrooms. It is my wife, myself, and 10 year old daughter. The guests have pretty much all been amazing and are almost always either not here or in their room with the door closed. Some of them are a little chatty, but most just do whatever they came to do. I am not sure the best way to mitigate risk from crazies, but I set the policies in AirBnB to only allow reservations with at least 3 day’s notice (this cuts down on the last-second scammers) and that to instant-book they must have multiple verification methods. I also instructed my daughter that if anything happens (i.e. creeper in the night) that her job is to kick the stuff off her desk, kick the wall, and scream. That should have Daddy up and when we have others in the house I am armed. If they get my wife, well, I can replace that easily enough 😉
Your scenario will be different with your kids so young. You can get very cheap indoor cameras that send notifications on movement. If you are light enough a sleeper or can customize the notification volume, that movement detection could be enough to wake you up, which should let you rest assured that you know almost as soon as entry happens that it is occurring. Here is an example camera. I have never used it, so can’t vouch for it, but there are many similar. Additionally, you can decline bookings you don’t trust. I have done this where they had a bad review or didn’t seem right somehow.
Does my wife like it? Not even a little. Was it necessary? Absolutely. We had to start paying the basement conversion loan before conversion ended (idiot electrical company anyway), and without another way to generate effort and time free income, this went into effect a month and a half ago and has been working extremely well.
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Hi @Stu! I actually do this right now. I am converting my basement to a walk-out (the cement steps were poured yesterday!) and it will have 1 bed, 1 bath, and a living room with kitchenette and no direct access to the “family” part of the home. We never used the basement really anyway. In the interim, we are renting our guest room upstairs on the same floor as our bedrooms. It is my wife, myself, and 10 year old daughter. The guests have pretty much all been amazing and are almost always either not here or in their room with the door closed. Some of them are a little chatty, but most just do whatever they came to do. I am not sure the best way to mitigate risk from crazies, but I set the policies in AirBnB to only allow reservations with at least 3 day’s notice (this cuts down on the last-second scammers) and that to instant-book they must have multiple verification methods. I also instructed my daughter that if anything happens (i.e. creeper in the night) that her job is to kick the stuff off her desk, kick the wall, and scream. That should have Daddy up and when we have others in the house I am armed. If they get my wife, well, I can replace that easily enough 😉
Your scenario will be different with your kids so young. You can get very cheap indoor cameras that send notifications on movement. If you are light enough a sleeper or can customize the notification volume, that movement detection could be enough to wake you up, which should let you rest assured that you know almost as soon as entry happens that it is occurring. Here is an example camera. I have never used it, so can’t vouch for it, but there are many similar. Additionally, you can decline bookings you don’t trust. I have done this where they had a bad review or didn’t seem right somehow.
Does my wife like it? Not even a little. Was it necessary? Absolutely. We had to start paying the basement conversion loan before conversion ended (idiot electrical company anyway), and without another way to generate effort and time free income, this went into effect a month and a half ago and has been working extremely well.
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