I contracted The MountainClean Team after researching online & reading the positive reviews. We spoke on the phone many times with the owner, Martha Prince & were pleased with the services outline over the phone & later confirmed by email. We opted to have the linen service included, so they were to provide all of the sheets & towels swapping them out each clean & laundering them offsite. Our cabin was stocked with our personal sheets & towels as well as several extra sets of sheets prior to us renting it out for the first time. We requested that Martha remove all of our personal sheets & towels & secure them in our owner's closet. At that time the cleaning techs were to make the beds & distribute the towels supplied by The MountainClean Team per our agreement. Martha acknowledged via email that this was no problem & requested the owners closet code to complete the request. We have cameras around the exterior perimeter of the cabin so we can see who/what is coming & going. The cleaning techs showed up just prior to guest check-in & only set up paper products (soap, shampoo, etc.). They brought no linens or towels with them & did not remove ours. We contacted Martha to explain this & she apologized & stated that they would get them washed & returned after the first guest & not to worry. So, we did just that, we let it go & trusted Martha. In the meantime, our second set of guests arrived to a green & cloudy hot tub that was crystal blue when we left just prior to the first guests. Martha quickly rectified the situation & had her team out first thing the next morning, but this never should have happened to begin with. On July 30th we arrived at our cabin to stay for the week. We did not notify Martha, as we wanted to see how the property was after a month of renting it out & being cleaned by The MountainClean Team. We arrived to several issues that did not align with what was presented to us verbally over the phone or via the emails Martha sent to us. Some of the problems were as follows:
1) Mismatched sheets & towels (black pillow case with a purple fitted sheet & no top sheet, flat sheet being use instead of fitted sheet & it being too small to stay in place, not a single bed had anything coordinating). We were told they attempt to match the color scheme & décor of the cabin & have nice bamboo sheet sets.
2) Mismatched towels (green, brown, white, purple, etc.), no differentiation between bath & spa towels, & several towels with bleach stains all over them.
3) Grill that was brand new as of July 1st was filthy with the grease trap nearly over flowing.
4) Patio fireplace was full of peanut shells, potato chips, & ash.
5) Trash on the balcony.
6) Beer bottles in the yard.
7) Fire pit in the yard was full of burned wood.
8) Patios had sand & debris on the concrete & rugs (not being swept, vacuumed or blown off).
9) Cobwebs inside.
10) Food & debris at the toe kick of the kitchen cabinets.
On top of these issues all of our personal sheets & towels were missing. We contacted Martha & chatted about our concerns. She stated that she would let her cleaning techs know & would get our linens to us that following Saturday, August 6th. The morning of the 6th we received an email from Martha stating that she was providing us her two week's notice of termination of services. We informed her that she did not need to return to the property to clean any further & that all we needed were our linens & towels. After communicating back & forth & providing a detailed inventory list of what she should have of ours, she indicated that she did not have everything that I outlined. She went on to state that she could not be held accountable for things that were never in her possession, yet I have email documentation where they were supposed to be in her custody, & further her cleaning techs were to notify us if anything was missing so if the claim is that she never had our personal linens & towels in her possession then why was this not reported that they were missing. Once I provided written documentation of Martha agreeing to remove our linens & towels & place them in our owner's closet, she stopped communicating with me. I had quality linens & towels of my own & had to replace everything for six beds & three bathrooms of which sleeps ten people. This was an unnecessary monetary loss for us. Meanwhile The MountainClean Team was paid in full for all of the services rendered. Martha never returned our linens & towels, never offered any sort of compensation & ghosted us. I have all of our emails & text messages to document & back up every commitment of service made as well as pictures & videos of the interior which show our items as well as the coming & goings of the cleaning techs on camera. Mistakes were made, which I can accept, we are all human, but when you own a business, you must be held accountable & should make things right. Sadly, that did not happen in this case & we paid the price for it. read more