All about the money parents

[Spixie33]

Oh don't even get me started on low ball daycares.
We have one just starting up in our neighbourhood - she has a good program, the set up looks good judging by her ad pictures and she is starting out at $25/day.

Grrrr.

This is why parents think I am expensive at $35.

I talked to another provider about this particular 'ad' and she knows this person and said that the person is just really desperate to get people in and start making money.

I was like but what about the future? How will she ever increase her rates? How are we supposed to compete when we are priced 40% higher?

This other provider assured me to relax because it was just an initial ploy for this lady to get started but I was in that situation once and I did not take that route because I knew it was going to come back and bite me in the butt if people signed and then stayed on for 3-4 years.

I can understand money can be tight and we all want to fill our daycare but I wish there was a universal pact that low balling is not the way. I just hope she fills up soon so that we can go back to regular business.