Property Management Company choose expensive vendor without approval

[Mica Moore]

House was my primary but I moved out of area for a job offer. Turned it into a rental property & bought a new primary in new city. Hired a PM, who hired & arranged for a move- out cleaner. I get the bill a month later & it's a $600 cleaning bill ( 6 hours billed @ $100 per hour).

BAM! So first off a housecleaner should be like $25/$30 an hour, NOT $100. And second of all ain't no way it would need 6 hours to clean because it was in decent shape. It's a smaller home ( 3/2 1000SF all single- level with tile floors throughout so no carpet). Tell me I'm not crazy and this is a raquet! ( I was thinking a $200 to $300 would be market range which is 50% of what I was actually charged).

Needless to say I'm pissed and blindsided. I'm cooling off from my knee jerk reaction & trying to figure out how to handle this situation.

What would you do?

[Nathan Gesner]

Quote from @Mica Moore:

The first thing I would do is address this with the property manager. You are correct that $100/hr is excessive, but there may be a justification for it and the amount of time it took. Your idea of clean may be entirely different from the property manager's standards.

Talk to them and get the facts. Then update us on what you've found and we can help you determine whether you've been cheated or not.