Finding a good maid or butler?

Random tip: Go to CAS and design the butler's appearance. I, for one, simply refuse to house a pear-shaped, santa-bearded, elderly Asian guy with the feminine walk style :#

I have only used butlers once.
I noticed that in order to get things well set up I needed:

1 A mod that stops the game from switching buttlers all the time
2 A mod that forces the butler to have needs, so they sleep at niight
3 Use cheats to alter traits so they do a better job (Neat, primarely)

Finding the good ones happen to be sporadic, for sure. I've had decent ones before, but most of them just take the simoleons and bounce! I have had different butlers spawn before as well; that was bothersome. Hasn't been happening to me recently though. And when I notice the butler not doing anything I'll have my sim mop up a puddle herself... then the butler decides to mop up with her. Like thanks dude, a little delayed but fine!

Ironically I still use them when playing in a large household/lot/with wealthy sims and there will be times when they do (shockingly) decide to be of assistance. If all else fails, I suppose they are a nice addition to involve in dramatic love affairs.

My butlers, so far, have been nocturnal. It's like they can't function when the family is up and about the house/lot. Also, one never cleaned out the lint trap in the dryer, so I had a fire to contend with right off the bat. Luckily my Sim Dad took it upon himself to extinguish it. Phew, that was close. I've also now got a different butler. I have no clue what happened to the guy, he wasn't old or anything. In other saves I've been notified when the butler departed this simulation and a substitute butler was sent to the lot. This time, no such notification. She's the one who failed to clean out that lint-trap, too. Help, these days!