Daycare Center Deposits?

[karinothing]

We paid $150 at one company (for 3 different locations) and $100 at another.

[Deleted]

$100 non-refundable registration fee

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May 21, 2012 19:11:36 GMT -5 @msstarry said:

ahhh! I feel screwed by the amount. I wanted to put down a deposit there but keep shopping for in-home closer to my due date. $365 is harder for me to part with than $75, but I would if I found a much cheaper option, obviously.

Just seems kind of weird since we are in LCOL.

my daycare is in high demand with a wait list, so if someone bails, they get to keep the $100 and go to the next name on the list.

[pugz]

we paid $270, which was a week's tuition plus an enrollment fee

[locarb]

One week tuition plus $100 enrollment fee-4 mo waiting list at the time

[Ashley&Scott]

Same $75 & 1 week tuition. ($300 total)

ETA: The tuition was applied to his first week.

[h]

To get on waiting lists at day cares, we paid deposits of anywhere from $50 to $150 (we got on the waitlist at our top 4 choices). We paid a $150 facilities fee and a $200 enrollment fee to hold our spot once we got in to the day care we ended up using.

I just dropped of our deposit for the new Montessori school my kids are starting in a couple months. It was a $400 non-refundable deposit per kid.

[psyck]

$150. $100 for the first child, $50 for the second.

[vanillacourage]

To get an infant's spot reserved was $50. I don't think there was a fee for DS when he started his current place at ~18 months.

[Jem]

Very HCOL - to secure DS's spot we had to give first and last month's fee, $100 membership fee, and $35 registration fee. And this is 4 months prior to his start date.

We were really lucky to get him the spot since we only put him on the waitlist 9 months before we needed care and not over a year ahead of time. Sometimes I really hate our area.

[whereintheworld]

None, just had to call every 3 months to ensure our name stayed on the waiting list. Took 18 months (got on the list when I was 12 months pregnant, and he started at 13 months -- Canadian maternity leave).

[dcrunnergirl]

Ours was one week's tuition. When you leave the daycare, they apply the deposit to your last week. If you decide not to take the spot, it's non-refundable.

[pierogigirl]

May 21, 2012 19:09:15 GMT -5 suzubell said:

We just had to pay $35 to hold our spot, but I think that's abnormally low.

Except ours was $50.

[Deleted]

For our first in home daycare, we had to pay 1 week's tuition and that was used for our last week there (she quit). For our new in home daycare, we had to pay 1 week's tuition but that was used for our first week there. Does your's go toward a week of care at any point?

[madladybride]

1 week's tuition ($356 + $50 application fee).

[octwed07]

$1500 -- the daycare we take DD to has a $500 annual facility fee and then $1000 deposit that will go towards the first month of tuition. They have quite a waiting list so their deposits are a bit outrageous compared to others..

[northernlights]

$290 for LCOL = 2 weeks of tuition (nonrefundable). It is an excellent daycare and in high demand. We were able to get the only available spot around January (I'm 12 weeks). We would have lost the spot for baby #2 had we waited another week or two.

[aspentosh]

We paid one weeks worth to hold our spot.

[cheese]

We paid a $50 registration fee and the first week of daycare ($200).

[GailGoldie]

we paid a $50 reg fee and then 1/2 of a full month's fee --- which gets put towards his final month's tuition, whenever that may be (for DS1 it's this August).

[shell403b]

Ours was weird: it was $160 to hold the spot for 4 months (it's a small in-home and I was on mat leave which ran into summer break); it equaled $10 more than 1/2 a weeks payment. Again, weird.