This really underlines the entire value proposition of hotels, motels, and other professional accomodation - you have a legal entity to hold accountable in case something goes wrong, and they have a reputation to uphold that economically discourages bad or malicious service.

The idea that it's somehow undesirable to check in a a hotel as opposed to shacking up in what is effectively a random property of unknown safety standards being ran by a person of unknown mental state with virtually no oversight or accountability is plainly unwise to anyone who spends more than a passing moment considering the risks.