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[quote=Anonymous]I can see why you'd consider it, and perhaps it could be a shared rental so more than one person/not full house to nanny kind of situation.

But it is an awfully complicated scenario to imagine - especially when you haven't hired the nanny yet.  Managing the nanny relationship well is important, and can be complicated because it is so much more personal than the usual employer/employee scenario.  To complicate it even further w/ this housing approach and a separate landlord, w/ leases etc... seems really tricky.  What if the nanny doesn't work out? What if you fire him/her or he/she gets another job and you're in the middle of a lease/rental term?  Then you're all stuck w/ each other - potentially very uncomfortably for a very long while.

What if you adore your nanny but she gets sick, cannot work, and cannot pay rent?  What if you end up knowing way too much about her personal life and that ends up interfering w/ boundaries, judgments, etc...?

I would guess that you haven't ever (yet) hired a nanny or au pair.  It's hard, and fraught w/ possibilities for tension and stress.  It can also be a fantastic relationship.  I would do all kinds of things for my nanny now - because I know, trust, and value her - that I wouldn't do for a stranger I hadn't yet hired.

Be careful.  This really sounds like a scary leap to me.[/quote]

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