Thing is, these people don't know what deep cleaning means. Not only did they not achieve it after…read morepromising it again and again, but the cleaners who arrived asked me again and again IF they should vacuum my carpets, or SHOULD clean my bathrooms. Or this or that. That should pretty much say it all. I pointed out that after they'd finished there was visible debris on the floors and they just said 'sorry.' They probably didn't clean the bathroom stalls and tubs but whatever they cleaned, 'deep' wasn't it. Later the business owner protested that when the cleaners left I said things were okay. But that's actually because I didn't know what to say to them anymore after answering their questions about SHOULD they clean the upstairs or SHOULD they vacuum bedrooms. Yes, I was exhausted.
Better yet. When we tried paying, their cash app AND Venmo links didn't work. I suggested cash and thet were FIRM they didn't take it. No reason given. Then, because it was 10 pm and I was tired of trying, I said that was their problem and I wasn't going to attempt the apps anymore. Suddenly I got 'Are you serious?' and was called rude and frustrated. Last but not least, my realtor said the next day that the place needed a real cleaning. Because their job was disgusting.
But that's not all. The way they treated me as soon as I questioned them is shocking.
In their response on Yelp they dared to write that I was frustrated and distracted when I told their inexperienced cleaners to just do their jobs without repeatedly asking me what needed doing, when I clearly stated in my report that I was frustrated by their inexperience or unprofessionalism, or both. Tell me, what professional cleaners ask the customer IF something needs to be cleaned while charging $350 for Deep cleaning a $1400 sq ft townhome? Doesn't that prove they don't know what DEEPCLEANING means?
In their knee jerk attack on us they missed that their own 'policy' was we shouldn't even be there when the job was done, but if we'd been absent like they wanted us to be, their cleaners would have had no one to ask what they shouldn't have needed to ask in the first place if they were true professionals, would they? In which case, whom would they have falsely blamed for being distracted? Strike one.
They also forgot while maligning me that we wouldn't have been able to monitor what their cleaners were doing if we hadn't been around, which their comment about me being on the phone while they were working seems to suggest was MY responsibility.
They ALSO missed, probably because they aren't very thoughtful or professional, that by telling the world what their cleaners thought I was doing or talking about on the phone, they were giving away that their cleaners were listening in on my private affairs (as my door was closed they could only have heard anything if they were eavesdropping).
Moreover, they missed that if we'd not stayed home like they 'preferred,'--and why is that their preference?--they couldn't have asked us anyway if the job was well done, which seems to be a big part of their reasoning for why I shouldn't complain about the poor job they did (actually, I did; they left debris on the floor that I showed them and then myself picked up in their presence?) Strike 4.
They've unwittingly revealed that their Yelp counterattack is specious by forgetting that their 'policy' itself makes all their attempts to show me in the wrong invalid. Poor fools.
They got paid even though they treated us this way becuase we kept trying when we could so easily have said 'Oops, your links didn't work four or five times.' A payment that they got even after their unprofessional tone, attitude and lack of logic.
Lastly, did I mention that our realtor who is a highly established and respected local realtor is the one who inspected their 'work' and said the whole job needed doing again? What more can I say. $350 for a 1.5 hour DEEPCLEANING down the drain.
