hiring maids and cleaners, a crapshoot?

[Mike Franco]

I read a bunch of reviews on Yelp of a bunch of cleaning referral agencies. Most are bad, and clean worse than you would yourself.

So I searched on craigslist, and there are some other small time maids who charge much less than big agencies like Molly Maid, merry maid, weekend maids, etc.

I figure the craigslist maids can only be as bad as the big agency maids.

I haven't had to hire a crew for move-out cleaning in years, but this time, I have to, because my tenants are college kids who have never done a chore in their lives.

A long time ago, I hired mollymaid, and the maid dumped waste water into the sink, clogging it up. Didn't have the common sense to dump it in the toilet or outside.

What's been your experience?