Good approach; The worst are those that think they are doing you a favor! 
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You need to toughen up! There’s absolutely no reason why you should be bullied by guests. Or is it just that you feel bullied? Every host gets requests from guests who want to bring a child / pet or who want a discount. That’s a normal part of a hosting day.
Like the others, I think you still need to up your price. Even more, I mean. Unless you’re in a truly horrible area - and I imagine that you’re not - then $99 is still too cheap.
Oh and by the way…
If they’re being ridiculous or bullying you there’s no reason at all why you have to be polite. I’m not. 
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After more than five years I am learning that if my prospective guests have reviews that say, “Great guest,” or “Nice people,” or some such, they were not exactly stellar. Sometimes I also look up what they said about previous hosts to weed out troublemakers.
@Cozy2018 I completely disregard the reviews that say “Nice guests”. It’s not necessarily that it means the guests weren’t stellar, it’s that whenever I look at the reviews that host has left for their other guests, every single one says “Nice guests”. So that host never says anything that would give you any real indication of what the guests were like.
Either the host is too lazy or busy to bother to leave a real review, or they have no interaction with their guests and as long as the place wasn’t trashed, they were “Nice guests”.
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I have a hot tub and IF the first question they ask is about the hot tub - and the guest JUST signed up for airbnb - and they are local, I ask questions. Often they will put 1 guest, so I question them on that. If I don’t get satisfactory answers, I respond with “the hot tub is closed for repairs”. 99.9% don’t book after that. If they do and they are “normal people”, then I will say it was fixed. We only have 1 unit which is on the lower floor of our house and we have decks all around our upper area. Lately, people have been a bit weird… sans clothes in the hot tub and pool (we do have neighbors with kids who could see through the fence) and a new thing - men peeing in the bushes. Is it the Covid issue making people crazy? We are a family so I don’t know if I can go out on my deck with naked people below us (I don’t usually bother guests but you can’t help but see nakedness). And the gardener has to do his work. Very awkward. I am not prudish, but this is our home. Your thoughts? And how do I put that on a review?
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Actually sound prudish. They rented a private space with a hot tub and so should have every reasonable expectation to use it without clothes if they like. Especially at night.
Provided they use and leave the place in good shape - that is a good guest.
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I don’t always agree with Jeff - but I do one this one. I don’t see why naked people on the lower deck would stop someone going onto the higher deck. When you’re taking money from people and therefore providing them with a service, you have to be prepared to have to work for that money and in this case, being inconvenienced at the thought of naked people is a small price to pay.
If it bothers you though, just tell the guests to get dressed. 
I agree though that it’s a good idea to warn future hosts. “I’m glad that Amy and her friends enjoyed all the amenities we have to offer, although future guests please take note that our HOA requires residents and guests to be clothed at all times. Please enjoy the hot tub and the pool, but future guests should be aware that swimwear is required”.
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I’m not either but people being nude outside is sometimes inappropriate and often illegal.
I’d have to see the set up. I have a friend who lives on 10 wooded acres in a subdivision with no neighbors on property directly behind or adjacent to their back deck. I’d think being nude in her backyard space would be appropriate. In most backyards around my home, it wouldn’t.
Maybe you should see about doing something to make the lower level hot tub more private for the comfort of your guests and yourself.
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@Judith_Brooks If I booked an entire place with a hot tub, and pool, I would assume I could go naked unless it was stated in the listing description that swimwear was required. Of course, if when I arrived, I saw there were close neighbors who had an unobstructed view, I wouldn’t go naked, but I really think it’s something you need to mention in your listing ad.
As for men peeing in the bushes, if you think that’s “crazy”, you must lead a pretty sheltered life. All the guys I know would do that unless specifically asked not to.
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Ah, another oft visited discussion with varying opinions. In a area with a lot of homes and bathrooms I don’t care for it. I understand the many places where it’s okay.
I recall once looking out my upstairs window down on the house next door and below. The little boy who lived there was peeing into the roof vent that connects to the plumbing system below. I wondered why he didn’t go into the house (was he locked out?) and how he got onto the roof. I’d judge him to be about 10 at the time so I don’t know if the parents would really want him climbing a ladder unsupervised.
I’ve caught males on my front view video cameras peeing behind a tree in my front yard. Again, I don’t like it but it’s what men do.
I think it’s because they can. They’ve got the equipment to allow them to do such a thing so they’re flippin’ well going to do it. It’s a male thing. Or a macho thing. Like male cats spraying their territory maybe…
Here I have neighbourhood dogs who are being walked along the street and who see our bushes at the front as a lovely place to cock their legs. Because it can get stinky (warm weather here remember) I go out with a bucket of water and disinfectant and throw it over the peed place.
If a bloke peed (and I like to see them get away with it if I saw them!) I’d do the bucket and disinfectant thing there too,
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Reminds me of my early working career. My California office had a recreation center. The hot tub was in a vestibule between the indoor gym and the outdoor courts and pool. When our company was bought by a German company we traded employees in certain management jobs to better integrate the business.
The Germans had been there less than a week when HR sent out a memo to ALL employees that you HAD to where a bathing suit in the pool AND the hot tub. Apparently people were seeing a bit more of their new managers than they felt was appropriate.
With guests coming from all over, if the hot tub users need suits I’d definitely mention it in the house rules. There are places they could get arrested, and that would make for a terrible review.
As for men peeing in the bushes, yes men do that. It is not considered polite unless they are camping. Certainly not in areas where there is an available bathroom with 100 yards.
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