Originally Posted by blandino:
Do you realize how crazy that sounds to me ? Right now our rates are $140-160/ weekly, average for the area is $125-150. The state reimbursement rate is $68.00/week AND we are not allowed to charge parents the difference.
So if you can imagine, no one is willing to take state payments. So all the subsidy clients are at horrible daycares. Talk about a broken, broken, broken, system.
I get it... Our state reimbursement rates are in the $40's a week... But we can charge the difference.
I never ever get calls from other childcare people.... However I saw an ad on CL about a person starting out so I emailed her and I was going to share about our NHI program etc to help her with her start up. We ended up becoming friends and she drove over one day and we hit it off. She is very grateful for the help and had no idea about all the helpful information.
Of course, she isn't really competition as she is like 45 minutes from me anyway...