It's worth considering. The cleaning lady costs us $20 an hour (we'd need her too!) but we don't have a lot of friends with good English or brains that are local and have time to volunteer to help us out.
However, I wouldn't want to jeapordize the fact that you might get a job. We'll see how things go and what Fran wants to do. Fares may go out of sight in the next few days too.