anyone have experience importing help, like a nanny?
 

I am overloaded at work and home... need a person to help.

I had a buddy who adopted a kid from a Central American country, and the kid came with a nanny.

The nanny was like $300 a week and lived rent free in the home - this would be perfect for me!

I'd like someone who speaks english, computer literate would be awesome, third world country willing to relocate even better.

Anyone have any ideas? Suggestions?

What about getting an au pair?

http://www.aupair.com/

Joke? :1orglaugh

People are having a hard time finding good nannys in their own town and you would be willing to import one ?

lol

:uhoh:uhoh

my parents sponsored one from phillipines when i was younger when my sister was born, great workers.

Right now the economy is horrible. I think a lot of people in the US would love to have a steady job at $1200 a month. Sure that's not much money but when you can't feed your family or pay our bills, $1,200 a month is better than $0 a month.

yea, no kidding, for $1200/month you should be able to find someone local... :2 cents:

The two couples I know that had an au pair got a free divorce included with her too.

The problem with hiring a local at $1200 is that they will always think they deserve more. If you hire someone from the third world that $1200 seems huge, especially when they dont know anyone, don't go out anywhere alone, and effectively have nothing to spend it on.

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EXACTLY. Not only that, they don't go gossip with the local flunkies they went to high school with. I own a business in my town and half of the population either takes money from me or gives money to me... I don't need the drama, the gossip, or the bullshit that comes with hiring someone local.

I want someone from out of town with no local friends.

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i banged a lot of nannies back in the day if that helps :1orglaugh

but seriously you should be able to find a good nanny from UK or EU for a couple hundred a week plus room and board

there are plenty of agencies that provide this service

But what would they be willing to do? My kids are adults, but I'd consider hiring a foreign "nanny" for $300 a week.

I used aupairworld.net a couple of times.

I paid 100 / 200 a week + paid a return ticket.

Generally if you get europeans / americans they require more freedom etc than if you get someone from low standard living countries.

What you will get is typically someone who haven't lived independently yet but is old enough to move out from home, being an au pair will teach them a lot about how to run a household (since you are teaching them) and they learn foreign cultures as well

I know one too. The dude was fucking her the whole time.

Canadians have agencies/programs for Phillipino nannies, some of my friends had good experiences with that... but I would not want a live in

In the Philippines they have a program called OFW (Oversea Filipino Workers) that is worth checking into. There are a few schools that basically train them to be nurses, care takers and other skills and help them find work abroad. Sometimes is for short periods or longer depending on what your needs are.

It's as good as the person you hire. My brother and his wife had a string of Czech au pairs. Some were good and stayed a long time. One so good he will visit her next week while he come over and stays with us. Some so bad they hardly unpacked their bags before flying home, the record was 2 weeks. She was crying because she was home sic.

I married a Philippina and met a lot of her friends who worked as nannies and maids. some were hard working and great, some were not.

It's all pot luck.

aupairworld.net - thanks! I applied for a profile there. Any others?


I'm sure there are, and that's why I posted this thread - to get directions to reputable agencies or to get advice to stay away from disreputable agencies. :)

search for an agencies for nannies

If all of your posts are that full of useful information, I'd like to vote for you to be the next MissGFY. Seriously, that was very helpful. Thank you!

applied at aupair, emailed a week ago with my ID etc - no reply.

Any other sites that you or anyone you know might have used?

Damn some of those chicks are hot, can you hire one if you don't have children but lazy?

I looked into this a while ago - you have to pay administration fee's sometimes several thousand dollars - then all the paperwork for government in hiring someone oversea's. Finally you have no way of interviewing them to see if they are good with your kids.

NEVER short change your kids getting involved in that - I found several great nanny's locally that I can interview - get a police report. If I didn't then I couldn't trust someone I don't know alone with my kids

damn, can't use aupair because I don't live within an hour of one of their facilities.

Still looking.

bump to help ya out

Also Locals will steal your shit, while the others can't really do anything with your things so no need to steal it.

if you don't have time to raise your own kids, don't have them.

That's excellent advice.

Since I already have kids, and you suggest I don't have them, how would you suggest I dispose of the nuisances?

lol!

too funny

Sell them to Madonna.