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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been a host mother for many years, and have been with many agencies. I used to sign up for two or three, and go with the one where I found my au pair for that year.

1. Interexchange (also called AuPairUSA). I was with them many years ago, but they always had a pool of candidates IMHO inferior to other agencies; it was not easy to find what I was looking for (but I may be looking for someone with a different profile than you, so this is something to keep in mind.) Their pool of candidates at the time skewed very young and european, especially Eastern european. [b]They also have a rematch policy where if you rematch after 6 months you lose a lot of money[/b]; they restrict rematches, and they also don't let you talk to the previous host family of a rematch candidate. They enforce this policy so it is not so easy to go around it. They are also small and if you do go into rematch, it is may be hard to find a good in-country candidate. However I would return to them if I found a perfect candidate, because I loved their customer service, both local representative and the front office. They have very low turnover at the front office, I think same people are there that were a decade ago, and they are truly great, and that is something.  They are one of two non-profit agencies so their prices are very good and they offer generous discounts.

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I just wanted to add a quick note that we will be rematching/leaving the program 3.5 months before the end of our term this year, and InterExchange has agreed to give us back 70% of our agency fee for the remaining timeframe.[/quote]

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