Category: Scab Cleaning Companies
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Would You Hire a $10 an Hour Maid Service?
By: Cathy Green A woman contacted me recently to tell me that she was looking for a company to do her laundry. I told her that we do not do laundry. We only clean homes. She went on to indicate that she already had someone cleaning her home but needed a company that would do…
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Hire a Real Cleaning Company and Avoid the Cleaning Ladies
Most of us don’t just wake up one morning and decide we need some help in the home. It generally is a process. Over a period of time it occurs to us that yes, it’s time. It’s time to stop scrubbing baseboards. It’s time to stop dusting furniture. It’s time to stop mopping floors. …
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Avoid “Cleaning Ladies” Like the Plague!
By: Cathy Green I like to warn potential clients not to hire “off the street” cleaning ladies. Look at the ad below, from Craig’s List: I WILL LEAVE YOUR HOUSE SPOTLESS AND SMELLING FRESH CALL(571)278 —- (virginia)I AM A VERY RELIABLE , TRUSTWORTHY AND DEPENDABLE CLEANING LADY. REFERANCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. I WILL LEAVE…
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Looking for Cleaning Ladies on Craigs List
By: Cathy Green I saw the following ad on Craig’s List: Hi, I’m looking for a maid in washington DC to come to my apartment on a bi-weekly basis to start (we can discuss your fee if you do this). I want somebody that is a good cleaner. However, I am also looking for someone…
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High End Services to High End Homes
I receive so many calls from potential clients who complain about their former maid services that entered their homes and promptly destroyed or damaged their property. One of my most recent calls was from a woman who said that her maid service had actually walked off and left her front door wide open—endangering her elderly mother who was in the home…
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The Professional Cleaning Tech
By: Cathy Green UpperCrust Maids, LLC often goes into homes to do “clean up work” following other house cleaning companies that did not do their job. My employees recently cleaned a beautiful home in Washington, DC. The owner mentioned to me that the other cleaning company had gone in and during their “cleaning” of the house,…
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Getting Your Money’s Worth From a Cleaning Business
By: Cathy Green I entered a home recently to complete an estimate. It was an absolutely gorgeous home and the owner informed me that she had recently—-3 weeks ago, fired her maid service because they had not truly been cleaning the home and she was not able to communicate with them because they did…
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Unregistered House Cleaner Brags About Not Being Insured
Below is an actual post that I saw on a public forum: I love running my own business. No insurance, no taxes, no supplies…just me & whoever I can find. When I price them too low, I start giving them less time. When I find someone who will pay more I take that job, and…
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Fake “House Cleaner” Robs House of $40,000 in Jewelry
A serious tragedy occurred in Florida recently. A man hired a woman from Craig’s List who claimed to specialize in “nude cleaning”. It just so happens that the man’s wife was out of town (of course) when the man chose to bring the so called nude cleaner into his home. He claimed that he left…
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House Cleaning: We Get What We Pay For
I spoke recently to a woman who lives in a 3,513 square foot home. If you are not really familiar with sqare feet, trust me when I say that that’s a huge home. The woman had called me because she wanted to know my company’s house cleaning prices. After I gave her an estimate, she…
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