How much would you expect to be paid........

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for accomodating a student teacher from overseas for 8 weeks-she will be provided with bed,breakfast,evening meal,en suite shower room and i will prob end up doing her washing?

This is a favour to dds school so dont want to appear greedy

check out how much the B&Bs are in your area and go less than them??? Because if you were more than them then they may as well put her in one of those

Favours are usually favours though.. have they said they would like to pay you?

8 weeks is a very long favour! I think you are at least entitled to cover your expenses plus a bit extra. Do you also have to cater for her at weekends, as I'd find that a bit restrictive? I would also show her where the washing machine is and leave her to her own washing!

Work out how much the extra food is going to cost you (assuming they will eat with the family), say about £30 p/week. Then add a bit extra on top for electric, gas and other general bills that another guest would have an affect on. If you expect them to use the phone for long distance calls you need to factor in this as well.

I'd say it'd be about £60 - £70 p/week. SO mulitplied by 8 = £480 - £560.

I would say as a favour you wouldn't be able to go much over this. But then again you don't want to be left out of pocket.

(I charge lodgers about £80 p/week but that includes phone, broadband as well as all bills but not food).

Oh and yes I wouldn't do her washing (she may not want you to) but give her a certain day/time that she can do it that won't impact on you. My lodger gets sundays to do his.

Thankyou for all your advice,I was thinking of £70 per week

My son is at the start of university going into bed and breakfast with host family in South East for a few weeks until there's a place in a hall, and I think the charge is about £80 a week so £70 is not out of line with that and I presume that's a kind of market rate.

Over the summer we have been a host family for overseas students studying at our local language school. I was paid £99.25 (slightly strange amount!) each week and had to provide breakfast and evening meal during the week with lunch aswell on Sat and Sun. Nearly all our students had excursions at the weekends so had a packed lunch.
The room we offered isn't en-suite. I was expected to do their washing but no ironing and, of course, change towels and bedding at least weekly.
All of this was stipulated by the language school who came to check us out first.
Really enjoyed the experience. Hope that helps a bit.