Shared space, having friends over

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Hi, everyone. Happy Mother’s Day to the moms out there. So, we share our space with her guests, who have their private bedroom and bathroom downstairs but we use the kitchen and dining room. We are heavily booked, especially in the spring and summer.

We have friends and family and occasionally we like to invite them over for lunch or just to hang out for a little while. It’s very hard to arrange this for days when we don’t have guests. I am thinking of adding a statement to our Airbnb description letting people know that occasionally our friends or family might visit. Is there a nice way of saying this?

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How about this: …

Here’s a listing in a shared home where they disclose that they might have people over:
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/54342830?

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First off, your place is gorgeous and reasonable. If I ever find my way to NC I’ll look you up.

I’m going to use your text. Thank you!

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It’s not my listing. It’s one where I stayed and I knew they disclosed that they live in the house and have people over at times.

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It’s a good idea to mention it in the listing, but the whole concept of a homeshare is that the guests are sharing the home with the host, including the normal things everyone does, like have friends and family over for a meal, or just having them drop over. “Live like a local” - locals have normal lives.
There’s no reason for it to feel awkward.
As a homeshare host myself, I would also invite the guest to join us, if I had a big family dinner, but not necessarily if I was just having lunch with a friend.

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I have a home share with one fairly private area and another room that requires walking through our dining room. In terms of informing guests, I only mention that we have a daughter who occasionally visits with her service dog. If I am planning dinner with guests I mention it to guests and reassure them that passing through is no problem. Occasionally we offer them a drink or some of our dessert. One Christmas a couple was getting coffee in the kitchen and I asked if they wanted to sit with us and have pastry while we opened gifts. To my surprise they said yes. My daughter’s new boyfriend asked my daughter how they were related. She said “I’ve never seen them before in my life”, lol. We don’t usually have late activities with guests so it hasn’t been an noise issue.

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