No roomies, maybe guests STC

I have thought long and hard on the roommate idea and I think not.  I am not adamant in that but I don't think it's wise.
In the past, I've had trouble with boundaries with people.  In both directions.  I've often lost my housing because I depended on a relationship that then disintegrated. 
I've sat and thought about how this happened in a couple or few cases, using my current wisdom and past memory, and can say I can't be sure this won't happen again.  Sure, I understand more and better, but do I understand well enough?  And then there's the whole notion of projection.  Me, projecting on them, my needs, expectations, ideas or structure. Whether as daydreaming in advance or as behaviour during the tenure.  It's just too precarious.
I'm thinking, maybe renting a room as an airbnb, however, means spare money for hiring people for those occasions I think I would need someone around.  Pet sitter or house sitter or kennel for the pets, for instance.  Hire someone to come help me move furniture around or move in, and so forth.  Because it's just plain unhealthy the way I was thinking and it bothered me the more it happened.
I'm not saying I'm not ready to share housing, I'm saying if the past is any predictor of the future, it's a bad idea.  Regardless of my status in the arrangement.
A guest room I can rent out periodically or invite in people?  Or even eventually use for live in care help or friend or whatever?  Yes, ok, that would be fair.
Or if I can afford the place as is, it's another workspace for another type of isolated media work. Like something that needs to be very clean, like sewing and finishing or embroidery or whatever.  Heh, orders of messy from the boat deck, welding and painting, to the enclosed base room, 3d printer (noise) to the living zone, weaving and spinning and noisy things like the TV, to the top floor, sleeping and a sewing/draping room and then gardening on the roof.
I think it's ok to weave daydreams around a thing.  Not a person.  Whether they are someone you know or a vague hope.  that's unhealthy.

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