The Ivorston family · Dual-Physicians
Food as medicine, in a town with no candidate pool.
30–40
hours a week
$20–25
per hour
Remote / exurban
the Southeast
Before
A dual-physician family in a small Southern city. One of them was carrying everything that took empathy or a second thought — and spending her rare free hours cooking from scratch, because in this family, food is medicine and shortcuts were not the answer.
Why they chose Sage Haus
The ask was unusually specific: a meal-prep-led house manager who could cook the way the family eats, in a market where that candidate barely exists. They wanted the search done properly rather than settled quickly.
Sage Haus found their house manager
A kitchen-first scope — scratch cooking at its centre, the household resets and errands around it. The search took longer than most and found exactly the person the brief described, in a town most agencies would not touch.
The abridged version of the job description
House Manager & Family Assistant
Requirements
Core responsibilities
- ✓daily resets of main living areas & organization systems
- ✓washing/chopping produce & prepping simple meal components
- ✓family laundry with weekly linen rotation
- ✓grocery shopping, returns & supply pickups
- ✓light supervision & backup childcare when needed
- ✓litter box maintenance & cat food/water refresh
- ✓vehicle maintenance scheduling & porch/patio upkeep
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