Renting

Renting rooms is another source of income for your tavern. When the ability to rent out rooms becomes available at level 8, it's a good idea to purchase and make the necessary furnishings before paying the gold to unlock the rooms, because as soon as they are unlocked and you've opened the tavern, customers will want to rent them, but you can't rent them without them being minimally furnished with a bed, a single table, a stool, and a light source. The least expensive way to get these furnishings is to use your Building recipes to make the table and stool, and to buy a wall candle. The bed must be purchased.

Boosting the comfort level of the room increases the amount the customers are willing to pay for the room and improves your reputation. Place a teddy bear on the bed for a big boost in comfort for little expense. Indoor Plants, Cobwebs, Ink Braziers (paradoxically placed on the walls), Old Doormats, and Small Rugs are worthwhile investments.

To rent rooms, your customers come up to the bar, and a bed appears in their speech bubbles. Click to Serve on the speech bubble, and you see the amount they are offering, a minimap of the rooms with those already rented tinted green, and those not yet unlocked shaded with grey. Select the room you choose to assign them and choose to either Accept their offer, or to Haggle. If you haggle, they will either decline and leave, giving you some negative reputation, or they will offer a higher amount. Accept or Decline this higher amount to finish the transaction. They then go directly to the room. If you do not hire and automatically renew having the housekeeper, you must be attentive about keeping the room tidy in between guests. To automate the hiring of any staff member, click the dot in the low center of the person's bar on the Hiring page. Housekeepers are well worth the 10 silver per room per day that they cost.