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We plan on putting our house up for sale the first of the year...we plan to stay local so I dont have to start over with getting daycare kids, Im finally pretty much at my max so Im doing the best I have done in the 4 years I have been open. Im about 95% sure all the parents will stay with me after we move. The house we really want is 5-7 min down the road from us( most of the parents already come from that direction so it really wont be a time difference for them) We have to sell our house before we can buy the other one, we are praying that its still for sale when our home sells, the realtor thinks our house will be a quick sell. We are going to do a contract with the owner of the house we wanting giving then our offer and proposing as soon as our house sells we will buy theres but this doesnt mean someone cant buy it in the mean time while we are waiting for ours to sell :-/....for those of you that have moved how did you tell the parents, were they upset, I just guess we dont want to tell them right now until we get approved in January when I do my taxes, we already know we will get approved but the bank needs my income on file first for 2012.
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I wouldnt tell parents know unless you have to put a sign in the yard. when you tell them, provide a note home briefly outlining your plans and the fact that there should be minimal disruption to the daycare and that you plan to continue providing care, within minutes of the current location. -
I've moved twice over the course of my dc career and it's never been a problem. When the house was for sale I talked to my neighbor and she let me take the kids over to her backyard to play if we had a showing during dc hours. Fortunately both houses sold after just one showing.
As for moving: it made it closer for some parents and farther for others but everyone stuck with me. I took a Friday off to move but was up and going again on Monday, even though only the dc room was the only room fully set up.Comment
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I moved locally once before and it wasn't a big deal at all.
I only had one parent give me notice, only reason being the new house was a lakefront property and they were concerned about the water "hazard."
The week before I moved licensing came over and ran over everything so I was good to go. That weekend as we were moving everything in I invited the rest of my parents to swing over so they and the kids could see the new digs. They were nothing but excited and supportive. The transition was smooth and very easy.Comment
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Same exact thing. Told everyone we were moving and that it was about 4 miles away from our old house. Some it was closer for them, some it was farther, but everyone stayed. Moved on a Thursday I think and up and running on Monday. I explained that everything would be a mess at first with unpacking, but everyone was 100% fine with it and understood that it took me a short time to get organized.Comment
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Check with your liscensing also. We have to have everything up and ready to go, checked off with liscensing before we can accept children back into care. The time you move may not be convenient for them to come out so I would be setting up a inspections asap when you know your for sure moving.Each day is a fresh start
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True, here in Michigan, I had to go throught the whole app process all over again as if I never had a license. I did have everything ready as far as furnace inspections, fire alarms, radon test, fire extinguishers etc ready. It was just a matter of unpacking boxes that wasn't quite ready.Comment
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Wow seriously? I would have been shut down for months LOL! I had my daycare playroom set up, the naproom set up and the basement playroom set up. In my extra bedroom (not used for daycare) I had boxes and boxes of stuff that had nothing to do with daycare. So you couldn't have even that? You had to have your non-daycare stuff organized and put away?Comment
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I'm pretty sure because they look into all the rooms to make sure everything is ligit. The bathroom has to have everything up and put away, locks on drawers/doors, so if its bare it wouldn't give them a good picture. The kitchen has to have locks on everything-knive drawers/under sink. So those things have to be set up. They check all the bedrooms to make sure there's nothing out that shouldn't be.
So I think thats why they house needs to be set up and ready to go.Each day is a fresh start
Never look back on regrets
Live life to the fullest
We only get one shot at this!!
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That pretty much sounds like here. It's just that since I have a 2 story house and the daycare is not on the 2nd story they don't look there. I did have the main floor ready to go. Like you said with the locks on the drawers and cupboards etc. What cracked me up is that there is a 6 hour orientation for new daycares and I had to re-take that even though I had had a license for like 5 years.Comment
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