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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a young nanny who currently works FT caring for a toddler. Between 40 hours of work, running errands, seeing my friends, and spending time with my boyfriend (we have dinner together every night at his apartment and I spend the night with him 3-4x/week) I am rarely at home. I live with a roommate whom I love, and we live in a very nice condo, but at this point I feel like I pay (quite a bit of) rent for a place to store my clothes and furniture.

An opportunity has arose for me to trade 12 hours/week of childcare/light housekeeping in exchange for free rent in a home with a single mother and 2 kids. We are just in the beginning stages of getting to know each other and seeing if we would like to proceed, but I thought I might as well start getting advice now. I've never looked for a live-in position before as I've heard horror stories of live-ins being expected to constantly be on duty, or having no privacy. My thought is that since this is such an informal arrangement (I would basically be providing care so she could get some "me" time and help around the house) that might not be a concern. I have been very upfront so far about the fact that I am rarely at home, when I am I will probably just want to be alone in my room to veg out and enjoy my kid-free time, and that I spend the night with my boyfriend frequently (she mentioned a no overnight guest policy, which is fine).

My thinking is that if I do end up being offered this opportunity, I would ask for a trial month first. I would only accept her offer if I was very sure it would work out anyways, but just in case I would like to have that opportunity to move on. If the first month didn't work out, I could stay with my boyfriend until I was able to find a new place, so no problems there.

I'm trying really hard to pay off my student debt so saving rent money would be a HUGE help for me (almost half of my take-home pay goes to rent right now). This would also cut my commute from 20 to 5 minutes to my FT job. I guess what I'm looking for is any advice from people who have entered these types of arrangements before, or any general advice about living in. [/quote]

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