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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] There is no way it is over a thousand dollars. Only people that don’t have beach houses would believe you. We have a house on Martha’s Vineyard. We pay our caretaker monthly and the water and electricity is on. So that makes a cleaning fee, which is less than what I pay here. And we have enough money that the cleaning fee isn’t a big deal for us to pay for the few people that use our house. But we also don’t rent our house out because we don’t need the money and don’t want strangers in our house. So I’m guessing you need to rent your Dewy Beach/Rehoboth house just to afford it. You don’t want to say where it is, because everyone will know you are just making things up.[/quote]
 
NP, but now I don’t believe you. I have a close friend with a 2500 sq foot house on MV. We have a 5000 sq foot home in DE. They rent their house out for a couple weeks in the summer and have it professionally cleaned afterward. They pay $1000-1200 each time.  We pay much less than that in DE, but still significantly more than we pay to clean our similarly sized home in Bethesda.  Everyone I know in resort towns complains about the high cost of cleaning, especially vs their primary home, yet you are claiming you pay less for your second home? Who is cleaning sheets and changing bedding, emptying the refrigerator, turning off the pool heater, etc? No eat the cleaning company is doing all that for no money.[/quote]

I’m surprised you live in a similar size house as your beach house. Delaware real estate is really cheap! Our house here is almost three times the size of our beach house. I’d love to know what cleaning company deals with pools. That’s our caretaker’s job. And as far as cleaning out the fridge, again, we don’t rent our house out. Family and friends throw away whatever they bring. It’s just a regular cleaning and it costs less than my house here. Our house is bigger than your friend’s, so I think your friend is paying too much. Though based on what you are saying, I’d bet she uses a real estate agent that acts like a caretaker, booking agent and arranges cleaning. That would account for a fee like that. She should have these all as separate services. But it’s probably a lot easier if you rent your house out. She should seriously look around at the independent cleaners on the island which charge anywhere from $20-40 an hour. It is also better for the local economy to support independent workers.[/quote]

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