....anyone ever do this? A provider, maybe a lonely divorcee who just wants some dick but doesn't want to date, or some professional lady that wants some extra cash on the side to pay off the house, or a full-blown professional SWer?

i would never entertain out of my private home because all my neighbors have ring cams. our neighborhood is no crime & a tight knit community. someone is going question for sure. People talk.  

More than a few would have the client just drive into the garage and then they'd shut the garage door once the client pulls in.  And yes, for blatantly obvious reasons it is quite different than an apartment for a plethora of reasons.  Stuff like this keep you awake at night?

Assuming it's not against some HOA/lease contract, anyway. My folks ran an Amway thing out of their garage in an upscale development cul-de-sac for years - you want to talk about daily individual and group traffic, parking congestion and nosey, uppity neighbors?🤪 There's any number of creative ways to justify traffic to a home... one of which is just that she's horny! No law against that. If she's face-in, does intelligent screening, uses a burner/unpublished number and has a stack of boxes she can slap together or some manilla envelopes/files/binders to send the dudes out the door with... the issue is...?  
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Ok, that may be oversimplifying it a little but seriously... Don't answer the door in lingerie. Make friends with the neighbors. Host girl's nights occasionally. Have a reasonable home biz cover story. Follow HOA/lease rules. Bake cookies for the block party and give good Halloween treats. Unless there's an actual parking meter and turnstile on her doorstep, you're overthinking this😇

P4p occurs in the suburbs and it happens in apartments there as well. lol. Personally, I don't prefer to meet a girl in her private residence, if that is what you are getting at, unless I know her and her situation/surroundings VERY VERY well.  
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I do see women outside the city, but they are almost always in mid to upper tier hotels.

There are a large number of providers that work out of a private residence here in NYC. I prefer it, so long as they don’t have any roommates or anyone else living with them. I think it is safer. There isn’t going to be any hotel staff or guests to worry about. You’re probably not going to run into anyone you might know. Also, they usually have a room set up specifically for their job, which helps with the ambiance and atmosphere. I only get nervous if there is a doorman, but usually the providers usually tip them well enough to look the other way. I’d be curious to hear what your hangups are about seeing someone in their private residence.

and I didn't think anything of it.

They are all houses and apartments in the suburbs.  Someone is noticing the volume.

low IQ operation

if that is directed at me, then i agree, i prefer private flats and apartments…

In your response, you mention several of them. Working out of her residence leads to too many things out of my control or possible knowledge. Does she have roommates? Kids? A SO? All things I wouldn't know on a first meeting, certainly, and possibly never. Any of those could pop in unexpectedly to the girl then that could potentially create massive issues/problems for me.
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As the OP states, the risk of nosey neighbors increases. If they see all different men going to her place at all hours of the day/night, does that increase risk? I would think so.  
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Many women who work out of their home have pets and I have allergies. They may or may not tell me about those when I contact them.
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I just feel so much more comfortable going to a hotel. I don't have any worries at all about someone I know seeing me there as my situation may be different than yours. I am not saying "never", bc I have seen providers in their residence, but those are few and far between as those women I know, trust and have history with for me to better gauge the risk level.

I've seen someone several times in a private residence.  The arrival process is always exactly choreographed, never knowing the address (at least the first visit) and each visit being guided for the last 10 minutes by phone to the location, presumable to eliminate anyone taking any wrong turns which may draw unwanted attention. Nothing was listed in writing/texts about the location.  It is very safe, as far as it can be, and very discrete, which I'm sure is part of her planning.  I appreciate her attention detail of the process and felt comfortable.

Good points on both. Way, way, way back in the day I had an incall apartment in Denver a few miles from where I lived with my mine. No way would I have entertained in our home, and I never drove straight home after a date either (the stalker I ended up with was tenacious enough to wait a few hours for me to leave once, followed me to 2 stores and then home, where he'd do his scary shit for the next 9mo). But there were no cameras to worry about in the early aughts. I think a single, low volume non-parent could easily live and work out of a suburban apartment or home... except for those pesky cameras nowadays. Neighbors gossiping is one thing, but people being filmed from multiple angles (and now with Big Brother's Eye-Cloud spy shit) is definitely different.😵‍💫

Feel that is true but many of those are the Asian apartments or agency apartments  with multiples providers that are creating  an abundance  of traffic.  
Feel the apartment in a large complex with a quality reasonably low volume provider always left me feeling safer then walking through a hotel lobby.

It's infuriating to hear what SWs like yourself have had to endure, stalker wise, threat wise, violence wise, on all too many occasions, etc. I am sorry you had to go through that. I cant imagine how scary that must have been.  
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I think it's a good thing that women here mention those things on occasion, if they feel comfortable doing so. It's important for men not in the know to hear about them. Maybe then they will be more apt to understand why certain providers screen the way they do or conduct themselves the way they do.  
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Thanks for sharing EC, and again, sorry that you, and all the other amazing providers out there, have to put up with this psychotic shit! You all deserve SO much better.

good point

Yes, misogyny rears it's ugly, double standard'd, hypocritical head regarding the differences between how men and women enjoying their sexual autonomy are viewed (and vilified).  
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And also, I'll mostly retract my blasé position on suburban entertaining because as Queen Bia pointed out, those damn cameras are everywhere now and if they aren't already spying/reporting on us (like our phones aren't listening to us🙄), they soon will be. I've been away from US daily life long enough now to not have that kind of thing mentally register... but once mentioned... yeah, that def changes my tune.😬

I have done several of these type meets over the years. Apartments are not really an issue for upper scale providers and almost the same for those in houses in a subdivision. Shit hits the fan for some mid to lower rated providers. Higher volume and personality conflicts can cause problems. I used to see a great provider very close to my home , it was great until I met her neighbor on the steps one day. She knew exactly what was going on I could see it in her eyes.  I never returned after that, to much risk of being on a ring camera or other problems      

Another Great Answer  !

I hobbied in a large midwestern city for nearly two decades.  I would have to say at least half of my encounters were in the burbs.  Yep, pull up in the driveway or park down the street.  Go in and have a diet coke in the kitchen, or a beer in the living room, then head downstairs or upstairs or to the back.  

high volume? was the building owned by an agency and full of SWers?

I love helping gals pay off their homes. I visit many in homes in the suburbs or in their town homes they own. These are my favorite providers to support regularly. They usually have their shit together.

I am genuinely curious if there has ever been an instance where a guy like Charlie Harper from Two and a Half Men with an active sex life has been kicked out of his building for bringing in a large amount of women on a regular basis....there was at least one instance on here from an old thread where female providers were kicked out by their landlords because some karen ratted them out...

I always carry a folio when entering a hotel or a private home. You’re there on business 🙂

Already do it. I got this great idea from another poster on here, though he suggested I wear a tool belt to look like maintenance which I was not sure was just trolling or he was being serious. In a suburban setting, that can work. I can carry a toolbox and look like a handyman. lol

You just have to be as discreet as you reasonably can.

I agree with both of you that volume increases risk.  But, if I'm visiting a provider I can only guess her volume.  Obviously higher cost usually means lower volume.  But it's a risk I would be careful about since arrests keep getting made.

I’ve told this story before, but not in this context. I was in Seattle for a conference. This was about 15 years ago. Before I discovered TER. I found this hot escort on Eros. Back then, I knew to do my own homework. I searched the web far and wide. I won’t go into all the details, but I found enough to know she was legit.

I met a lady in Florida whose MO was to meet in a nearby strip mall parking lot. I got into her car with dark tinits and she drove to her private home and into the garage. That avoided neighbors seeing strange cars coming and going. After the appointment she drove me back to my car.

I'm kind of obsessed with this subject lol