positives of having a lodger?????

Debt_Free_Chick

In the past, I have both been a lodger and had lodgers.

I just find that as a lodger you always feel like a house-guest and having lodgers, you always feel like a hostess with permanent house guests. From time to time, I am !!!!!! and don't bother with housework, putting the washing away, mopping the floor etc ...... but when there's no-one else to take into account, that's a luxury (for me, anyway) that I can only afford if I have no lodger.

Maybe I'm just over-sensitive

Badger_Lady

^^ Having a lodger forces me to be vaguely domesticated - something I'm incapable of when left to my own devices! :rotfl:

emmie

I have 3 small children and host foreign students who attend local College
so far have only hosted two, and both times they have been good

Yes you do lose some privavcy, but the money more than makes up for that, it is quite an easy way of making money when you have small children

The foreign students are at college for most of the day and go out at night, so be honest we hardly see them !! Also, both times they have travelled to a European city for a weekend ! So we make the most of our time together when we have it - iykwim -

both times the student has been really good with the children too, we have had American ones so no language problenms. REad to them play games with them....