Lodger Wanting to have a Student Over for Lesson

Keep_pedalling

Cakeguts wrote: »

If it is a child under 18 the answer is no because you would need a DBS check for your own benefit as it is your property. If it is an adult that is fine as long as it doesn't involve actually playing anything. Music lessons can include music theory which doesn't involve any playing.

Not true, the OP is not employing his lodger and it is not even compulsory for private tutors to have a DBS check.

https://www.superprof.co.uk/blog/security-checks-for-home-tuition/

AdrianC

Keep_pedalling wrote: »

Not true, the OP is not employing his lodger and it is not even compulsory for private tutors to have a DBS check.

https://www.superprof.co.uk/blog/security-checks-for-home-tuition/

...and if there are question marks of that type over the lodger, then why do you want them living in your home in the first place?

paddyz

I once had a prospective lodger tell me he would be starting up a dog walking business and he would need to use my bath for dog washing, all with a poker face I laughed till I realised he was fully serious

Another lodger started up doing avon and I was woken up at 8 on a Saturday morning by a woman asking where was her delivery, she gave my home phone number to her clients as she didn’t want to give her own number

Anything you might have concerns about just say no!

Honeylife

Thanks everyone. Good points. Hadn't thought about under age student, but I do know my lodger has a DBS as he teaches elsewhere and so do I and my adult daughter.
M_Python If I was not home I confess I would have concerns about him having a one to one student in my House.

Lodger is a music student at the Conservatoire and looking to make some extra money with private guitar teaching and said he did this in his previous accommodation..but then he wasn't a lodger there he was a tenant.

The practice of whatever instrument, (had a drummer lodger with full kit), would not be an issue with me.

Perish the thought of more than one student a week traipsing up to his room (regardless of gender) and thats the deciding point! I don't want to start some thing that could escalate. Will encourage him to find practice rooms for hire somewhere else.

AdrianC

Honeylife wrote: »

Lodger is a music student at the Conservatoire and looking to make some extra money with private guitar teaching and said he did this in his previous accommodation

So it really shouldn't come as a great surprise that he's wanting to continue...

csgohan4

AdrianC wrote: »

So it really shouldn't come as a great surprise that he's wanting to continue...

Then you wonder why he had to change accommodation?

Cakeguts

Which conservatoire? This is important because some of them are so easy to get into that there is no way that anyone will get a job actually playing music after a course at them and so earning extra money should really be done by getting a "real" job that they can put down as work experience on their CV when they need to get a job at the end of their course. A bit of teaching at home isn't something that an employer will be interested in.



So by saying no you are actually going to be doing him a favour because he can then find out how much it costs to hire somewhere to teach compared with getting a job in hospitality which is probably what he will be working in when he leaves his studying anyway. If you don't believe me about the hospitality google portfolio careers for ex music students.

lincroft1710

PasturesNew wrote: »

After all, when does it stop? One/week, recommended a friend now it's two, now there's a pair, now they're forming a little quartet and practising?

Even worse if it's a quintet and the lodger one day asks you to collect a trunk from the local railway station.......

Voyager2002

lincroft1710 wrote: »

Even worse if it's a quintet and the lodger one day asks you to collect a trunk from the local railway station.......

The Ladykillers strike again!

need_an_answer

OP....you need to get together with Freebear….

I can see this thread running in conjunction with the superb "my lodgers want to cook"...

Its a shame that you are thinking rationally and perhaps going to say no...however a weekly update of the music lessons would have been so good......