[header] How to be a great couchsurfing host [title] Discuss your decision to host with the people you live with. [step] Before you start posting your place on couchsurfing, get the opinion first of the family or friends you live with. Once they agree with your grand plan to put up guests, initiate them on what to expect. 
[substeps] You don't want to deal with surprise of the bad kind once your couchsurfers are already at the door. There's no worse welcome than being unwelcome.