Posted by JD Seller on July 05, 2015 at 08:12:06 from (208.126.198.123):
The is a lady that comes in and does light house work for us. She spends 3-4 hours every other week. Then 3-4 times each year she does a complete cleaning of the house. This usually takes her 1 1/2 days. She refuses any payment for herself. If she brings her daughter she will let me pay the girl. This lady has been doing this for over twenty years for us.
Here is the back story. I met this lady when she was dead broke with three kids and ZERO money. She had a dead beat husband that took off with all their money with her having two kids under two. The other one was only four. Long story short she was living in her car that was out of gas. My first wife and I brought her home with us an she lived in my Grand Mother's quarters. She stayed with us for about six months. It took some time for her to regain her confidence in herself. She helped my first wife as she was going through her worst cancer treatments. This lady basically did all the work at times when my wife was at her sickest. When one of the rental houses became empty she moved in there and started doing house work for people to make her living. She now has four women working for her and she now owns the house she moved into.
She refuses any kind of payment. I have tried. She will not cash a check and returns any cash I give her. I just do not feel right about this. I know she feels beholden to us. That is not what we intended or want. So we are trying to put a monetary figure on what she has done for us. My wife and I are updating our wills. We want to bequest this fine lady something. I want it to be at least more than she would have earned.
So if she works 4 hours every other week. Would $50 per time seem about right??? That would be $12.5 an hour. Does that sound about right???
I have tried to find out what she charges but it varies a lot according to what the people she works for can afford. She slides her rates. It varies from $7.50 to almost $20 an hour. So what number should I use???? I am for using a higher number and just going with it but my wife thinks that the lady maybe insulted if we put too high of a figure together. I do not know what to do for sure.
Helping her never cost us a dime. The value of what she did from day one was more than any cost we had. She is a good person that just hit hard times.
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