We turn guesthouse rooms between guests, every morning, to a checklist per room type.
The work is quick and the counting matters more than the cleaning. Linen and towels are counted out and counted back, and the sheet records what went to the laundry and what came back, because a guesthouse loses more money to missing towels than to anything a cleaner does or does not wipe.
We will tell the owner, in writing on the same day, about anything broken, stained or missing in a room. That report is worth more than the clean to most of the owners we work for.