Au Pair - legal bedroom

[Anonymous]

Depends on the LLC if they will approve it or not. CCAP will not unless you have a sub-par LLC. But most AP will ask to see a photo or video or something of their room. We provide a virtual tour of our home to the AP's.

Once the AP sees where they will be living you would either see your match back out or when they get here look to upgrade to another HF. I would get her a real room - would you want to not have natural light in your room for a year?

At my job it is like gold to have an office with a window, imagine how it would feel to come home and not know what it is like outside or just look out a window. I would look for a promotion or a job that offered a decent "office" as part of my criteria.

[Anonymous]

If you wouldn't use it or put your kids in it, why would you put someone else in it. Get an egress window. Its not a legal bedroom for safety reasons. If there were a fire, she could not get out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the agencies don't enforce the legal bedroom requirement, what's to stop you giving her a large closet for a room? A bed in your kid's room? The couch? If you don't want people to rage against this program, at least PRETEND to give a shit about the rules.

We do. This is why the vast majority of us who have responded have said no, it's not legal and not to do it.

No, most of you said technically you can't, "IF you plan to follow the rules", we tried, a friend tried, and yes you can lots do it. I haven't seen anyone say no you can't do that, why would you think it's okay to house her in an illegal bedroom. Call out people that aren't acting and thinking in the spirit of the program. Call out people that break the rules!

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks. I actually was not asking for myself. My relative is planning to do this and I am debating whether to stick my nose in their business and say something. There are no other rooms the au pair could use so they would have to scrap the au pair idea altogether. I'm a little worried the person is going to show up and see the room and say no way. I am also sad for the au pair to live in a windowless room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks. I actually was not asking for myself. My relative is planning to do this and I am debating whether to stick my nose in their business and say something. There are no other rooms the au pair could use so they would have to scrap the au pair idea altogether. I'm a little worried the person is going to show up and see the room and say no way. I am also sad for the au pair to live in a windowless room.

Is there any way for a window or door to be put in? If not, they need to look into alternates. Sorry, I'm the live-in nanny, I thought I had read that there was a private entrance to the basement, which would be the second required egress.

[Anonymous]

That is so incredibly dangerous.

[Anonymous]

Where is the requirement the bedroom have a window? Is that agency specific? I have never seen this.

We have a beautifully furnished basement with a bedroom (king size poster bed) with no windows a huge playroom and full private bath. We have pics during matching.

Not been an issue. Several au pairs have said they really like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is the requirement the bedroom have a window? Is that agency specific? I have never seen this.

We have a beautifully furnished basement with a bedroom (king size poster bed) with no windows a huge playroom and full private bath. We have pics during matching.

Not been an issue. Several au pairs have said they really like it.

It's a fire code issue. In my state/town you could not consider the room you describe as a legal bedroom if you were to sell or rent the home. You have to be able to get out of the room in a fire.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where is the requirement the bedroom have a window? Is that agency specific? I have never seen this.

We have a beautifully furnished basement with a bedroom (king size poster bed) with no windows a huge playroom and full private bath. We have pics during matching.

Not been an issue. Several au pairs have said they really like it.

It's a fire code issue. In my state/town you could not consider the room you describe as a legal bedroom if you were to sell or rent the home. You have to be able to get out of the room in a fire.

Aren't agencies required by law to come and inspect your space??? Or is that another wink-wink?

[Anonymous]

Yes. And they have. I am
Asking where the requirement is written. I have never heard of it. I do not see it in the regulations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you wouldn't use it or put your kids in it, why would you put someone else in it. Get an egress window. Its not a legal bedroom for safety reasons. If there were a fire, she could not get out.

I'm an AP. I was given the choice between a large bedroom upstairs with a shared bathroom or a bedroom in the basement, no window, private bath, but a separate entrance to the outside. I picked the basement. I have the entire basement to myself. It's quiet and very private. Most APS do not want to be on the same level as their charges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks. I actually was not asking for myself. My relative is planning to do this and I am debating whether to stick my nose in their business and say something. There are no other rooms the au pair could use so they would have to scrap the au pair idea altogether. I'm a little worried the person is going to show up and see the room and say no way. I am also sad for the au pair to live in a windowless room.

Maybe your relative can sleep in the windowless basement room, and the AP can have the master bedroom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you wouldn't use it or put your kids in it, why would you put someone else in it. Get an egress window. Its not a legal bedroom for safety reasons. If there were a fire, she could not get out.

My teenager sleeps in our "illegal" basement bedroom. He has a exterior door about 7 steps from the bedroom door. Most all teens beg for a basement bedroom. Whrn I was a teen I slept in a basement that was fully undeground. No door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you wouldn't use it or put your kids in it, why would you put someone else in it. Get an egress window. Its not a legal bedroom for safety reasons. If there were a fire, she could not get out.

My teenager sleeps in our "illegal" basement bedroom. He has a exterior door about 7 steps from the bedroom door. Most all teens beg for a basement bedroom. Whrn I was a teen I slept in a basement that was fully undeground. No door.

No one is "regulating" where and what your teen is doing, so what does that have to do with a so-called regulated work arrangement for these forgeign kids? Nothing.

[Anonymous]

No it's not agency specific.

Our LLCs have come to tour the house. Of course I guess the relative could move the master bedroom into this room when it's revealed on the tour the room isn't legal...