Omg.. okay I follow a bunch of channels that are made by people who do free cleaning for people in really dire hoarding/damaged house circumstances mostly older disabled people and the free cleanings are often recorded to show how to take care of extremely bad damage to houses yourself, anyway one of them recently had to put out a statement where she said the GREAT MAJORITY of requests for CHARITY CLEANING she gets was fucking LANDLORDS!!!!!! Particularly those that recently had someone move out and want free cleaning before marketing again. And she basically made a big statement politely stating she’ll never do a cleaning for a landlord and they need to stop asking. Ngl that’s some crazy composure if I was in her position I’d just come over and bulldoze the house
I still can’t get over this. Like these are emergency cleanings meant for disabled people in unlivable conditions and the purpose of recording it is to help people learn how to maintain or repair their own homes in bad circumstances. Can you imagine watching someone who regularly deals with biohazards for free and thinking “yeah it’s appropriate to request they clean the housing im holding hostage before I rent it again”
and like .... if these landlords saw that this person specializes in doing this sort of cleaning and got in contact to try and hire them, that'd be one thing. Because doing this sort of cleaning is a specialty, and not everyone is willing to do it. But asking someone to come into your commercial operation and do it for free is a dick move. It's a far cry from helping an individual in need.
This belongs on r/choosingbeggars.
I watch those videos too (so cathartic!) and the work she does is heroic. But if this is your BUSINESS, that you are making MONEY from, you absolutely do not get to ask for free favors. Good lord, the entitlement.
