Therese Manu Lee Child Care

NO STARS
DO NOT send your kid here.
Therese was a licensed sitter but she deceived us. As a licensed sitter, she lied about the amount of kids she watched daily. She had 18 altogether and 7 were infants. We did not know she was running an illegal daycare with that many kids.
At pickup/​drop off she would always greet us at the door with our child so we thought she was doing us a favor and we didn’t have to go in the house. Unfortunately, we should have been more persistent about entering the home and we would have seen the chaos. The only time we entered the home was during initial interview.
She requested we give her a heads up during pickup so she could «prepare» the child for us. Perhaps it was just so she could shove our child out the door and prevent us from entering.
She lied about pets in the home. She said she had 1 dog which she kept outside, ended up she had 7 dogs in the house locked up in a room. The house did smell like dog, but we didn’t factor the smell as a «sign,» now I regret it.
She claimed she cleaned and sanitized the room everyday after the children left.
She was greedy. She wanted payment a month early. She even asked for 2 months worth of payment in the beginning in order to secure the day care spot.
We asked for a drop in during the day to see the children, but she claimed it disrupts the day care.
We should have seen the signs and should have trusted our guts but because she seemed so accommodating we overlooked it. Don’t make our mistake.