I am pretty sure you cannot sleep on a community lot as the game arrived out of the Maxis box. There is something about it in the guide, with respect to a furniture store, but I can't find it right now.
Found it! "...you can place previously unavailable home-only items (such as beds) on community lots for actual use, but they'll have only limited interactions (for example, Sims can Relax or WooHoo on a bed but can't sleep on it)."
In other words, you can run a brothel, but no hotels! I'm sure someone will fix that sooner or later.
thats NOT what i mean, the title of my post is "HOME business....", i know you CAN make a hotel on community lot because there is a community SLEEP hack on MTS2. the hack re-enables sleep options on community lot beds and people will sleep there.
What i want to know is if customers will sleep in a HOME business hotel. cuz somehow i suspect that they behave the same on a residential lot as they do on a community lot.