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[quote=Anonymous]Our live-in nanny is working at very well and she constantly says she is very happy.  Our home is fairly large and she lives in the 1800 sq ft basement apartment with its own kitchen, laundry room, and bathroom.  I pay for her electricity, water, internet, cable TV, and allow her 16 year old daughter to have her own bedroom with private bathroom on our second floor.

The way our contract is worded is she makes $500 a month.  We were paying her $1600 but she would have to then immediately pay her landlord $1300 for her place and pay for all her utilities.

Now, we save money on childcare, she has more money left over after rent and utilities and I even allow her to babysit another child in my home (complete with legal agreement signed by the other parent for legal protection).

Our nanny is awesome and is more like a member of the family than a nanny.  She is not restricted to the basement apartment and can use our kitchen and backyard fire-pit/pool anytime she wants.

If she ever said she didn't like the arrangement, I would sit down and see what we could come up with to make everyone happy, but once it becomes considerably cheaper (not just cheaper) to hire outside care, she will lose her job and her place to stay.  I would of course allow her several months to relocate and probably help her move both financially and with loading her things.

Some nannies are great people.  Some nannies are absolutely useless.  The person on here that keeps going on about how terrible live-in arrangement are or how live-in requirements are somehow "discrimination" is obviously not educated enough to know why they are wrong and not someone you want watching your child anyway.[/quote]

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