Originally Posted by
moggy
For me it would be money up front, or a 'sorry but no'. Maybe they can pay week by week in advance (if they can't get money together for a month's fees). I would not risk working for nothing and then finding the funding does not work out for one reason or another.
Until the funding is set up, you have to see it as a normal contract with a parent, and that would mean payment in advance- just like any other family (or a security deposit or what ever you normally do). The college funding then might start at a future date and at that point you can review the contract and sort out those details.