Gypsy
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It's high no question, but so you can be prepared for why it might be so high here are some thoughts.
Is the landlord a standalone or a community? If it is a standalone (like you are renting from an individual who owns just the one property) or a small stand alone community then they likely had to call a cleaning service that they don't have 'standard' flat fees established with the cleaning company. Most larger properties will have flat fees for standard move out cleanings (around the rates you stated) and the cleaning company gets that fee per apartment regardless of whether they are there for 5 hours or 1, absent anything unusual. So this brings the price of the cleaning down (or raises it if you are a clean freak), and standardizes the rates.
The 18 hours (that's a lot!!!!) of cleaning is probably like 4 workers for 4.5 hours. That's still REALLY FREAKING HIGH but that's probably what happened.
Regardless... if you didn't sign off on it and didn't have cat pee and mud on every services, 18 hours (no matter how many people were in there) sounds ridiculously high. I was working really long hours just before the holidays (and we were hosting) one year and decided to call a service for a ' holiday deep cleaning'... there were 4 of them and they cleaned everything including the phones and the soap dishes and did so VERY SLOWLY just to LINGER at our place for 4 hours (DH was home but had no experience with cleaning services) and it STILL only cost about 500 (which still gave me a heart attack as I normally pay between 50-75 dollars for a full cleaning).
This isn't legal advice either. Just a some random thoughts.
Is the landlord a standalone or a community? If it is a standalone (like you are renting from an individual who owns just the one property) or a small stand alone community then they likely had to call a cleaning service that they don't have 'standard' flat fees established with the cleaning company. Most larger properties will have flat fees for standard move out cleanings (around the rates you stated) and the cleaning company gets that fee per apartment regardless of whether they are there for 5 hours or 1, absent anything unusual. So this brings the price of the cleaning down (or raises it if you are a clean freak), and standardizes the rates.
The 18 hours (that's a lot!!!!) of cleaning is probably like 4 workers for 4.5 hours. That's still REALLY FREAKING HIGH but that's probably what happened.
Regardless... if you didn't sign off on it and didn't have cat pee and mud on every services, 18 hours (no matter how many people were in there) sounds ridiculously high. I was working really long hours just before the holidays (and we were hosting) one year and decided to call a service for a ' holiday deep cleaning'... there were 4 of them and they cleaned everything including the phones and the soap dishes and did so VERY SLOWLY just to LINGER at our place for 4 hours (DH was home but had no experience with cleaning services) and it STILL only cost about 500 (which still gave me a heart attack as I normally pay between 50-75 dollars for a full cleaning).
This isn't legal advice either. Just a some random thoughts.