HORRIBLE JOB DONE - NIGHTMARE TO WORK WITH - AVOID!
We are selling our condo, and wanted someone to do a deep cleaning. I've heard horror stories about different cleaning services in town, so didn't have any recommendations. This place had a few good reviews on another site, so decided to try them.
I talked to Irina on the phone, and her description of services were exactly what we wanted. She also mentioned that they did repairs, painting, etc. It was Wednesday, and I wanted someone to come over on Friday, as we wanted to list the place asap. Irina said that they could come over as soon as the next afternoon, which I told her no, Friday was fine. She wanted to come over right away to do an estimate, but then arrived a half hour late. Her estimate was higher than other places, but she made it sound like they were going to do above and beyond work, so we accepted it. We specifically asked about doing the carpet upstairs and woodfloors downstairs, and Irina said she could steam the carpets and make the wood floors look shiny.
We also asked her to give us a quote to only do *some* of the walls in our place- the white ones that needed to be refreshed. She said it would be no problem, and she'd give us a quote later, and threw out $600 as an example.
Irina said she was going to a lodge over the weekend, so she wouldn't be there herself, but could come back Sunday night, to check on the work, and give us the quote for painting. We said Monday morning was fine. She said people would be over at 10:30 Friday.
Friday comes and Irina's husband drops off Irina's mom at about 11 to start working, and someone else would join her at 1:30. The second person does not arrive at until 2:30 or so, and it's Irina's daughter. They didn't even bring a broom for the floors, and did not clean the floors or carpet at all. My husband gave them a broom, and they swept things into a corner and left it.
They did a good job cleaning certain things (the refrigerator, exterior of the washer and dryer), but other things were either only partially cleaned, or left untouched. This is not a large place. The downstairs half bathroom was not touched at all. This bathroom is almost never used, but I could see some residue in the sink and at the base of the faucet. It must have looked "good enough" already? The one bathtub we have- I could see soap residue on it, just by looking at the reflection of the light.
They were supposed to move the few pieces of furniture we had to clean behind them, though, and only some were moved. The baseboards were not done. Also, there are two sliding closet doors with tabs that prevent the doors from switching sides- one of those was broken off from being forced in the direction it shouldn't go.
Since they both arrived late, they didn't "finish" until late, and we felt bad for them. We assumed that Irina was going to finish the job Monday morning. Monday morning comes, and we hear nothing from Irina. I finally text her at 11:15, and she calls my husband, and says she'll be over in 2 hours. 2 hours?! Then she arrived 3 hours later, and acts completely annoyed to be there. Apparently, she was at her friend's who just had a baby. She then criticizes us for not keeping the floors clean! Um, the floors haven't even been done!
She walks around and sees that the counter is dusty, and offers to do a touch-up for $70 or something (no), and all of a sudden, the walls are a lot bigger than what she thought when she was JUST here last week, and the price to paint the white ones is $1800, will take 4 days, and can't be done until next week. Then she says she can't return to do the carpet and floors until that Thursday. WTH?!
So, my husband decides to just paint the white walls himself, and guess how long it took him? Less than a day!
Thursday comes, and guess who's late again? Completely unacceptable. Irina cleans the carpet and the floors. My husband asks her about paying her, and she said she'll just send him a square cash payment request, and he can pay by cc, no problem, and leaves.
So, the wood floors that she said were going to be nice and shiny, were NOT shiny. My husband had to go over them again, and all he used was a bottle of Bona hardwood floor cleaner, and voila- shiny and nice! The tile in the bathrooms were STILL untouched, too. Irina doesn't send the payment request until Sunday, and then is blowing up both my husband's and my phones about it - now she's a collection agency that wants to be paid immediately! She is constantly late, even late to send us the payment request, but once she does, we better pay her asap!
She sent both my husband and I a payment request, so after my husband pays it (the next day), I'm still getting reminders to my phone a week later. I text her about it, and she responds by saying that since we paid by cc, we should have added 3%. She never mentioned this, we paid by debit, NOT cc, and this is a week AFTER we paid!
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