Recently I hired a professional cleaning company to clean my home. We agreed on the price of $79. They only take cash.
So they came and cleaned and then it was time for them to get paid and leave. I handed them a $100 bill expecting $21 in change back. They said they don’t have any change at all. I only had a $100 and a $50 so I could either overpay them by $21 or underpay them by $29. They didn’t do a particularly good job at cleaning so I didn’t want to leave a $21 tip this time.
Eventually I found some coins and managed to pay them $73 and they left angrily.
It seems to me like if your business only accepts cash then you ought to have change. Yet they acted like it is my responsibility to have exact change. Which is it?
$80 for a professional home cleaning is seriously laughable. For $80 I’ll show up to your house and you can listen to my vacuum run in my truck for a few minutes before I leave. After gas, car payment, overhead, marketing, paying labor to go out to the job, they’re probably spending $120 to come out to you.
Back to your original question, I run a home service business and don’t carry cash on me all the time, if you need change there’s a chance I wouldn’t be able to give it to you. On the other hand I accept card & check so this situation wouldn’t matter.
I’m still seriously baffled that you only paid $80, I think that’s more on you for thinking you’d get any value out of an $80 service
Literally, $80 is 2 hours of work for me, and even then if that’s all they asked for I charge more, I’m not wasting my fuel, time and effort on a house for $80. The cleaners are being ripped off which is ironic, I can’t even find any cleaners and they would get more out of me. Never mind. 😂🤷🏼♀️
Yup I charge $47 an hour with a min $138 per job.
Some of my jobs are a bathroom wipe down and mop for post construction like after leaks and stuff.
$138, clean up after the contractors, often out in about 90 mins.
But it’s a good service for the restoration companies who don’t wanna babysit contractors and no one should ever believe a contractor leaves a site clean haha 🤣
Never thought of doing that for a cleaning job but it’s a good idea!
I had to clean an Airbnb while knowing in a few days some tradies were coming in to each bedroom of the house installing aircons and fans. I told the owner good luck with that one, I don’t have time to come back and fix it, so you’re gonna have to deal with that one. 😂
Haha yeah for sure.
I don’t have any Airbnbs but the post construction and turn around cleans from my property managers that use me keep me pretty busy.
Only have 1 drs office and hopefully will expand because those are really good money it seems.