Originally Posted by melilley:
I did the same, I had the tuition and fees at the very beginning of my handbook, but then someone suggested to make a separate page, so now I have a separate page that has the money aspect such as rates, payment policies and fees. That way I can just change that one paper if I feel I need to change rates. And for my contract I have a blank spot for what the fee would be so I can just write it in and I also include the contracted hours per day on it. And of course the signatures and a statement of agreeance (I know it's not a word) on it. Michael and someone else helped me with that. It sounds professional too. I could pm it to you if you want, if I can figure out how to do that...lol
Sure that would be great. I got mine from somewhere online. One of those free form websites. It's sounds very "legal" but there are areas that I definitely need to change. There is a part at the end that says the contract is good for a year and no changes will be made until end of year unless both parties agree. That pretty much stops me from raising my rates if I desperately need to. Like anyone would agree to that if they didn't need to.
It's funny too because I want my contract to be really professional but my handbook is worded much "friendlier". I think part of me wants it to be easy-reading so there are no questions about my policies and the other part doesn't want to scare people away with it being to "mean". That can wait until they sign the contract.
