Before you assess a live-in maid, check whether your home passes her test. Most live-in placements that fail in the first month fail on the house, not the helper: a sleeping arrangement she was told about but never saw, meals that turned out to be leftovers, or a day that never actually ends. A live-in maid who leaves in week two rarely had a problem with the work. She had a problem with where she was expected to live.
This is the checklist to run on your own home before the placement, and to walk through with her on the first day. If your home does not pass, it is better to know now than to lose a good helper in a fortnight.
Live-in problems are usually house problems
A live-in maid is in your home every hour she is not asleep. The job and the living conditions are the same thing to her, which is why a fair salary cannot rescue a home with no private space or no real rest. When a live-in placement ends early and the reason given is a family emergency, the actual cause is often something on the list below that nobody discussed before she moved in.
Reading this and deciding a live-in arrangement is not right for your home is a good outcome. It is cheaper than a placement that collapses in week two.
The checklist to pass before she moves in
Sleeping space she has seen, not been told about. A live-in maid needs a defined place to sleep with a mattress, somewhere to keep her belongings, and enough separation to rest. A described space and a shown space are different things, and the gap between them is where trust breaks on day one. Show the actual spot before she agrees.
A food plan you have both agreed. Decide what she eats, how many meals, and whether she cooks her own or eats what the family eats. The common failure is unspoken: the family assumes leftovers, the helper expected proper meals, and neither said so. Settle it in plain words.
Daily rest hours that are real. Being in the house is not the same as being on duty. Agree the hours she is working, the hours she is on call, and the hours that are genuinely hers. A live-in maid without a real break makes more mistakes and leaves sooner, so rest is a condition of the placement lasting, not a favour.
A weekly off. A fixed day off each week, or an agreed alternative, is the practice most linked to a live-in helper staying. Decide the day before she joins.
Privacy and basic dignity. A place to change and keep a phone, a bathroom arrangement that works, and freedom to make a call to her family. These sound minor until they are missing.
Phone and door rules, agreed openly. If you have expectations about phone use during work hours or answering the door, state them at the start and hear her side. Rules agreed on day one hold. Rules imposed in week three feel like a trap and lose helpers.
Walk through it together on day one
Do not hand her a list. Walk the home with her on the first day and show each thing: here is where you sleep, here is the bathroom, this is the food arrangement, these are your hours and your day off. Ask whether it works for her and listen to the answer. A helper who has seen the real arrangement and agreed to it out loud stays far longer than one who agreed to a description over the phone.
Write down what you both settle: sleeping space, food, hours, on-call time, weekly off. This is the same agreement covered in our duties checklist for maids, extended for the live-in conditions.
What helpers quietly leave over
Some things send a live-in helper looking for the next home without a complaint first. She rarely raises them. She just goes.
No private place to rest or keep her things. Meals that feel like an afterthought. Being treated as available every waking hour. A phone taken away or monitored. Being spoken to sharply in front of others. None of these show up as a formal problem, which is exactly why they end placements so often. If any are true of your home, fix them before you hire rather than after she has left.
How EzyHelpers handles a live-in placement
We check both sides before a live-in placement, the home as well as the helper. We confirm the sleeping arrangement, the food plan and the rest hours with you, and we set them in writing with the helper before she joins, alongside duties, the weekly off and the salary date. Verification and a skills assessment cover the helper; the checklist above covers the home. For live-in placements the one-time fee is ₹25,000 plus taxes, and live-in plans include a cooling-off period and replacement support if the arrangement does not work out.
See current options for a live-in maid in Bangalore, read what the role costs in our live-in maid cost guide, or tell us about your home and we will say honestly whether a live-in arrangement fits.
Arrange a live-in placement with both sides agreed