Almost the same thing here as well. 2,200 ish sq feet, $80 every other week, one lady. She does a great job and alternates some of the more heavy duty stuff each visit. Usually gets here at 8am and is gone by 10:30am. Our house is really just 4 big rooms and we don't have a lot of furniture.
No, my children have chores. For which they are paid.
Yeah, this wasn't him trimming off branch tips or thinning out branches, he literally hacked off every branch down to the trunk so the tree looked more like a big stick in the ground. I also had ivy that had grown over most of my fence (which took years as well), and he yanked all that out by the roots. The maid only remained in my employment even up to that date because she was my mom's maid, and she had a major case of compassion going on for the her because she was dirt poor with three obese kids. After my mom passed I still kept her employed out of respect for my mom, even though she was habitually late, would often leave early without finishing, and would break a dish/glass on almost a weekly basis. Ironically, my mom was a landscape designer and was the one who designed/planted my garden, so it was quite sad that the person she sought to protect so hard was the one partially responsible for destroying one of the few material memories I had of her.
