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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ah, a service. Honestly, i don't think a service will meet your expectations.  Over time, you train an individual (who is probably cheaper) to meet your standards.  A different team every time is just going to do the minimum they can get away with.  [/quote]

I disagree.  I've usually used services and the agreement is X rooms.  There is no time limit and they need to stay until the agreed upon rooms are complete.  An individual who has other clients is the one that I've found will leave tasks incomplete because you pay them for a Y hour cleaning.  So if they are doing a 3 hour cleaning, you get 3 hours and whatever is done.

OP--you need a different housecleaner whether an individual or a service.  That's unacceptable and frankly I would not pay the person until they came back and finished the job.  You don't get paid for doing half a job.

FYI, we have a 3500 sf house and it takes about 6 man-hours to clean (although there are a couple of rooms that are excluded, but it's still about 3000-3200 sf of cleaning).  I think 2 hours should be enough for a 500 sf apartment.  For the person who thinks it should take 4-6 hours to clean a 500 sf apartment, that's ridiculous.  You can clean a standard apartment bathroom in about 20-25 min.  A kitchen is probably about 45 minutes.  Then you have about an hour to dust and vacuum the living room and bedroom.  It can take longer if OP does not tidy up, but I can't imagine more than about 30 minutes extra.  It's only 500 sf.[/quote]

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