Lavender has helped us with our garage, kitchen, and entry way closet space. She is truly fantastic…read more- so easy to work with, extremely good eye for organization, and professional. We had just moved in and while we are generally pretty tidy, just wanted some help and a more experienced eye to recommend solutions that would work best for us. Lavender did a great job recommending product, working with what we already had, and also making recommendations for next steps. We expect to have her back every now and again to help with different parts of the house. Highly recommend!!

They were good at moving things from one place to another but not at organizing. When ever I would…read moretry and organize my space the way they wanted they came back through and reorganized in a way that didn't make sense. Now I'm left with a space that I have to reorganize because they put things in weird places. I also am missing a number of expensive items that I repeatedly told them I wanted or went a specific place. I'm out a lot of money where they essentially just moved things from one room to another.

I reached out to Sandy for some help organizing and decluttering things that have built up over the…read moreyears. Her team was able to help me organize the house and make space for things that I really needed. I would recommend Sandy and her team for your next project. My approach was very hands off and I mainly focused on things I wanted to keep. Her team showed me things and just like that we either donated or kept them.

This is my 3rd engagement with Basic Organization. They did my garage reorg this time and were…read moregreat as always. They make organizing very easy by bringing even supplies. The team of Denene and Sandy are friendly, efficient and resourceful working away quickly. They organized it so well that it becomes easy to maintain as well

The team at Basic Organization were extremely thorough, knowledgeable and resourceful. We had a…read moremajor move recently and had downsized our home. We were able to use a lot of dead space which helped us place items that we thought might have to go to the garage. They also gave us tips on items we could buy to help make the use of our closets and cabinets. Thank you so much to everyone at Basic Organization!

Working with Emily on organizing my basement was truly a life-changing experience. To begin, she…read morewas very quick to respond to my initial contact with her. She came over to give a free estimate. During this time, she worked through different ways I could use her service and we agreed upon the model that would work best for me. I wanted to be hands-on during this process. It was suggested that we would tackle the project in two different sessions. The first session would be for initial sorting and the second session would be to find everything a home. For our first session, she brought a ton of supplies (boxes, folding tables, bins, labels, sorting cards, etc) for us to work through the items in my basement. We placed items in groups: recycle, trash, keep, relocate, donate. We literally touched everything in the basement. Some of the items in my basement held such sentimental value (recently lost my mother) and Emily had such compassion for me as well as these beloved items that I never felt like I HAD to put an item in a group that I didn't want to. In between our two sessions I had some homework to do (going through some personal bins) that I could do independently. Our second session, she returned to put everything in a home that made sense for me. She brought labels, sharpies and other supplies needed for this task. A place that used to be a dumping ground for everything has turned into a highly functional, multi-purpose space. I had been wanting to do this for quite some time but literally did not even know how to begin. I couldn't have done this without Emily and her expertise. Her initial estimate, price and time wise, was spot on. Her rate is beyond reasonable. I picked up so many strategies working alongside of her. Emily is highly efficient in her work ethic and organizational skills! She has the kindest soul, too!!! She turned an overwhelming experience into something highly enjoyable. Thank you Emily for all you did for us!!! If you have been thinking about getting a room in your house organized, don't wait another minute. Give Emily a call!!!

My realtor recommended the Organizing Mentors to help with removing 60+ years of accumulation at my…read morechildhood home/parents' home. The owner Lisa was very kind and professional and was always there to help me with my decision making. Once I committed to having some assistance, I asked for two helpers with OM to come out. Meagan and Nancy were very fast and respectful of the items being collected/removed. My advice to anyone having to do the same thing, is do your best to gather or remove all of the items you/family want to keep so when OM come over to help it is easier to say, "donate, sell or throw away". Although I have never used a service like this before, they saved me alot of time and frustration. How do you put a price on time? This service is also helpful if you dont have anyone else to help you remove items or if items are too big on your own. Thanks Lisa and your Organizing Mentors team

I've used Lisa and The Organizing Mentors many times and they make decluttering and downsizing…read more(I've hired them for both) doable, stress-free, and even fun. Most recently I used Lisa and her team to help me pull off an ambitious move to a smaller place that required me to sell, donate, store, or dispose of 75% of my furniture and belongings -- in a very short amount of time. I was completely overwhelmed. The Organizing Mentors did a spectacular of helping me sell what I could, donate or trash what I couldn't, and decide which was which. Lisa also hooked me up with a number of invaluable resources to help with other aspects of my move. This team is responsive, reliable, reasonably-priced, remarkably competent one-stop shopping for any. kind of organizing, decluttering, or moving challenges you might face. If I could give them a 10-star rating, I would.

Busy Bee Cleaning and team are fantastic! They were very reasonable in price and the job they did…read morewas amazing. We have been in this house for a little over a year and it has never looked so clean! They take attention to detail to a whole new level. Every nook and cranny was dusted/vacuumed and spotless. Even the vertical parts of the stairs are vacuumed. They also tidy up and organize messy areas like my daughters toys or the items strewn around the master bathroom sink which I am awful about. My wife loved it especially before our new addition coming in a few weeks. I usually go with the highest rated/reviewed companies I read on yelp and they backed it up and deserve the 5 stars. I would recommend them to anyone looking for a cleaning service in the Gainesville/Haymarket area.

Honest review of Busy Bee Cleaning- I read all the glowing…read more5-star reviews and called Busy Bee to clean my new house. They came and cleaned my house yesterday, and if I'm honest, I'm a bit disappointed. After they left, I found several kitchen cabinets had been skipped (I found a squished jelly bean and some bullion cubes in one), several of the window blinds (office, laundry room) had been missed, there was a hair in the upstairs guest bathroom, and the floors had been vacuumed but not mopped (except for the office). Worst of all, there were loads of crumbs in the kitchen drawers. No wonder I have ants! When you clean with a rag, which they did, you can't get into the nooks and crannies, and there were still lots of crumbs in the corners of all the drawers. I realized this as I was putting contact paper in the drawers, and it was not sticking well at the edges.... I pulled it away to see all the crumbs. As a stickler for good cleaning practices, I can tell you that you MUST vacuum drawers before cleaning with a rag. I spent all day vacuuming and re-cleaing the drawers. Why did I pay all this money ($1100 for 4 people for 3.5hrs!!!!) if I have to come back and clean it myself? The reason I hired a service was because I have Lyme disease and moderate arthritis and can't clean as well as I once did. But this was very disappointing. I calculated that I paid them $78 per person per hour. That is ridiculous, especially for the job they did. Therefore, I cannot recommend this company. I'm attaching photos of my cloths and rags after I went around and re-cleaned........ and also the two kitchen drawers they missed completely. Gross.

Cleaned out my mothers house with 30 years of stuff, found things that where high end - found…read moresellers, found paperwork for estate and shipped the things we wanted to three states! Would highly recommend this company!

Karen and Veronica are responsive, calm, and incredibly talented. They helped my downsize for a…read moremove so efficiently, that I didn't even believe them when they said I was ready. They even offered to help on the other end with unpacking and arranging. My move anxiety was greatly relieved with their help.

incompetent. We…read moreretained Moss to do two projects, one called the "interior/beam" project and the other for the master bathroom. As to the interior/beam project, one of the two support columns that their subcontractor installed was over a gap in the foundation where there is a passthrough to our crawl space. Moss didn't even check to see if the column would be over the foundation before construction. Fairfax County Code and Development Compliance (inspector Haggerty) recommended three possible alterations to deal with the fact that the column was over the gap. The inspector said we could (1) get a longer beam, (2) put in additional headers in the crawlspace to distribute the weight across the gap, or (3) support the column by placing a short column in the gap and cutting a new pass through. In addition, the inspector noted that the other support column was improperly constructed. In fact, several of the studs from the roof to the new support beam were cut too short and did not even contact the new beam (see pics). They also did not put up a temporary wall to support the upper levels of the house during the time they installed the new beam. In addition, on the first day of the bathroom project, the worker broke a pipe when altering the plumbing to the bathtub and there was water damage on the ceiling of the family room below the master bath. We later learned that this young man is not a licensed plumber. For these reasons, among others, at this point we had lost all faith in their structural work and decided we couldn't take the chance of having them try to fix the interior/beam project. Consequently, we terminated the interior project, but decided to finish what was left for the bathroom project. We then asked them to tally up the costs to date for the beam project so that we could reconcile them with our payments to date and close it out. After about three or four weeks they agreed to give us the costs and indicated that they would tack on a 30-40% markup as the general contractor. Even though we understand that the industry standard is 20% (10% for overhead and 10% for profit), we agreed to their markup. The "costs" they gave us, however, were grossly inflated. For example, the first line item is for a gas fireplace that they purportedly had already ordered. There was an allowance of $3,986.89 for the fireplace in the contract, which would equate to $5,581.64 with a 40% markup. However, the total cost they gave us for the fireplace was $6,891.25. And, they hadn't actually ordered the fireplace! Once we saw the fireplace discrepancy, we began to question the other line items. The first thing we did was to obtain the actual invoice from the Sheets lumber yard in Vienna for the next line item, which was the steel beam used in the framing. The line item on the original worksheet they gave to us had $1,114 for the steel beam. The Sheets invoice shows $568.25, which would be $795.55 after a 40% markup. At this point, it was clear that the "costs" they gave us were grossly inflated and were not even remotely based on actual costs. We called them out on the overcharges and they initially denied them. We had to show the project manager the receipt from Sheets before he would acknowledge the fraud. Then Moss took him off the project. After all that, when we gave them the check to finish the bathroom project, they had someone come to the house to take the check and then told us via email that they were terminating the contract. We later learned that they have been fined by VA DPOR for their contracting practices. You can look it up on the DPOR website. There are a lot a good qualified contractors in Fairfax county. Based on our experience, you should look elsewhere. They claim not to know us. That should tell you everything you need to know

I have had 4 major projects completed by Moss over a 5 year period. Every one of them was first…read morerate workmanship. No punch list needed afterward. They just awarded me a 'Handyman for a Day' because of the many referals I was more than happy to give. Jeff was assigned to take care of the few items that I just didn't want to do myself...especially if I could have a true PRO take care of them. All done now. Working with the best is the only way to go.