I'm looking to move to Norfolk into a five bedroom house so my 3 girls can easily come to visit. I'm 56, single, well educated and well travelled. My work from home will often bring me to London. I also have three well behaved dogs and a cat. I was thinking I would put 3 of the rooms as B&B, which would allow me to have a "Roommate of a Sort" - mainly to house/animal sit (walk dogs and ongoing training important), but to help turn rooms around when I'm not there, and potentially do some housekeeping, depending on the candidate's desire to still earn. My current housekeeper is my age and we get on super well (she would be my reference), but she doesn't want to move to Norfolk. I would think that the candidate should be ready to start a new life there, possibly get her own part time job, if she needed, and must be a driver. I thought about an AuPair but that's not really what I want. Obviously the arrangement would be tailored to the individual...
So what do you all think about this? Would you do it? Do you know someone who might want to do this? What warnings would you give me (other than beware of the dishonest /disagreeable person) but what do you all think about this?