Geoff wonders whom he would trust to move his television (if anyone), and Georgie shares her recent experience moving and contemplating saying goodbye to the building cleaner.
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Geoff wonders whom he would trust to move his television (if anyone), and Georgie shares her recent experience moving and contemplating saying goodbye to the building cleaner.
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Georgie 0:09
Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of toast and roast. I’m here with Geoff, my co host, and I am Georgie. Hello Geoff.
Geoff 0:21
Hello. It’s great to be back. Thank you for having me on the show.
Georgie 0:31
Wait, you’re always on the show. I don’t get it.
Geoff 0:33
Yeah, I know. But it’s always it’s always good to come back to the show. So how, how how’s everything going? You’ve begun your move. Right?
Georgie 0:45
We’ve moved. We’ve moved.
Geoff 0:46
Moved 100%.
Georgie 0:48
Yeah.
Geoff 0:48
What was your moving strategy? Everyone’s got one.
Georgie 0:51
Okay, um, we, because we weren’t moving too far away, like literally two blocks away. We decided to move most of our belongings ourself and leave like large furniture, and appliances to, to the, to the removalists. And we chose to do it over the course of like, a weekend, basically. So conveniently, we got the keys to the new apartment on a Friday, we moved a couple of things during our lunch break, and that evening, and then on the weekend, we moved most of our stuff. And then on the Monday was when the removalists came and took the furniture and then—so when I say appliances, I mean, like the fridge and the washing machine. Because yeah, like we mentioned last time, not gonna lift a washing machine.
Geoff 1:39
I mean, I throw one but not lift it.
Georgie 1:43
Speaking of throwing stuff, like Nick and I did a mini mini retrospective slash discussion about our experience because this was like our first time both of us moving like together. And he said as a kid when he moved with his family. I think they had a couple of guys and you know, back before fancy Dyson vacuums were around, um, we had the bag vacuum, like I think he said it was Electrolux. And he remembers, kind of visually vividly remembers a guy at the top of the stairs and guide the bottom of the stairs. And basically the guy chucked, like threw the vacuum cleaner.
Geoff 2:26
Shit.
Georgie 2:27
And when he was, because he was a kid, he didn’t quite understand how like that it could maybe break the thing he didn’t he just thought “wow, strong”, or something like that.
Geoff 2:39
Right. So wait, so Nick’s only moved, like with his parents, or—
Georgie 2:46
Yeah.
Geoff 2:47
Is this just a specific memory? Okay, nice. Interesting.
Georgie 2:51
Yeah. Like I hadn’t moved apart from moving out. So this is my first time actually moving stuff.
Geoff 2:58
Yeah.
Georgie 2:59
That belonged to me. Oh, actually. And I did tell you, right, like, it was very odd, putting stuff in the new place and going out and think it deserves to be here. I don’t know if this is a minimalist thing. But I was putting clothes away, I don’t know. And then I was putting some crockery away and I was like, actually, I fucking hate these bowls. I should take them back. So literally took them back to the old apartment and dumped them in the, like the bulk... They have like an area where you put things you don’t want anymore, and they’ll get rid of it. Or they’ll sell it or depending. But it was weird.
Geoff 3:34
Yeah, I think we have that area. I call it like a little Bermuda Triangle. But there’s like a section just a bunch of random stuff there. So I took a bunch of company swag. I threw it in a bag and I just, I don’t know, like all good they just left it all there in the middle of this space.
Georgie 3:57
Yeah.
Geoff 3:59
Yeah.
Georgie 4:00
Yeah, I felt bad for in our previous place the cleaner, the cleaner was a really nice guy. I think I might have mentioned in a previous episode that like I had all of these—we got like, during the pandemic we got microwavable meals and a bunch of like protein and supplements and stuff and I was like pushing them across the residential carpark in these boxes and the cleaner actually helped me like carry them into the apartment and he’s not like a big buff guy.
Geoff 4:27
Yeah.
Georgie 4:27
And he was just a real—a friendly nice guy and I just felt this inclination to, when I, when I dumped out box of unwanted like, kitchen stuff or whatever in this Bermuda Triangle area. I really wanted to write on the box like “thank you, Francis” or whatever.
Geoff 4:50
Oh my god.
Georgie 4:50
But the pens, the pens, like, they are like because—I mean, I don’t know, I have like, I own like four pens. I’d already moved them to the new apartment and I was in the old apartment, I was like, dammit, I got nothing to write a message with. But you know, I felt the same thing like when you had to say goodbye to the sandwich shop people, it’s like, I gotta say goodbye to these people.
Geoff 5:10
It’s, it’s strange. They do, like, this one person, this random person, or other, does this like one nice thing for you? And then somehow you feel mildly indebted.
Georgie 5:23
Yeah, I like, it is just kind of like, sure he’s just doing his job, but it’s kind of like, I also think about how some people treat cleaners like shit. You know what I mean? Like, I think about that as well.
Geoff 5:40
Yeah, generally, I think, maybe not so much. Maybe that’s just you know, what we were brought up to think. But because anytime I’m in like, anytime I’m in a shopping centre. The first people I asked for directions are cleaners. Like I don’t think like anyone can or cannot give me better or worse direction than the cleaners. And usually they’re quite helpful except we’re in, inside Macquarie Park Centre. That was just a fucking nightmare. They’re like oh, yeah, you just go down there and then turn right, you can get out. So went all the way down, we’re like, oh, shit. Nothing’s here. So asked the second cleaner, they’re like, that way, and then turn right. Okay, so that way, turned right.
Georgie 6:28
That’s because Macquarie Park is like that weird thing with the half levels and all of this other weird...
Geoff 6:32
It’s god awful. I’m pretty sure we talked about it in a previous episode, getting lost in freaking shopping centres. But yeah, so did you give the removalists your TV?
Georgie 6:46
Oh, yeah, we did. We, we gave them full. What do you call it? Responsibility of our TV?
Geoff 6:53
Holy shit. I can’t do that.
Georgie 6:54
They did a good job with it. Like, yeah, we have like, I don’t know what it is, whatever, some giant LCD thing. One of those TVs. And they had blankets. And they pretty much just fully set it down, wrapped it in a blanket. And I think along with wrapping it in this big blanket. They got cardboard to kind of make sure it was stable, I guess. So the funny thing is they treated that extremely well. But there were a couple of things that they, I guess, damaged.
Geoff 7:29
Oh my god.
Georgie 7:30
Yeah.
Geoff 7:30
Don’t get me started. I’ve got two dents on my fridge. Like something poked it really hard. Yeah, I only noticed like a few weeks after they moved everything in the light hit it just right. You see two, like, like as if you took like a pole or something, like a really thin needle like being just poked in, and it’s like a dent, like a really dot dent and it’s like two of them. Like, how’s this possible? Were there nails on the edge of this fricking? Like, move, moving van and it just knocked against the nail and just punctured a... Yeah, it’s, it’s pretty annoying every actually, every now and then I look at it. But that’s good.
Georgie 8:14
We had a couple of things. Like these guys are pretty good. Just maybe they could have been a little bit more careful with a couple of things. So one of them is this bookshelf behind me. It’s a little black thing on top of it, which is like a sort of wheel thing that goes on the bottom. It’s a wheel that screws into the bottom corner of the bookshelf. And the guy just happened to knock it as he was bringing it to the new apartment, right on the part of the wheel and the wheels on a thread, right because you screw it in. And it just snapped off.
Geoff 8:47
Oh, shit.
Georgie 8:47
Luckily, we can get a free replacement from Ikea, but it’ll take like fucking four weeks to get here. But I mean, we were—after we brought this here, we’re like actually, maybe we don’t need this. So we might actually not even, might actually get rid of it. But the other thing that, the other two things they kind of damaged one of them was this sort of little shelf that Nick had on his desk, it was like screwed in, screwed into the desk, sort of. Or the... it was like a wooden shelf with wire or metal framing as there’s the part that holds it above the desk. And he kind of dropped it. It’s pretty small. But he kind of dropped that whole attachment and the screws like—you know how when you screw something into something, if you ruin the thread, you can’t screw it back in—that basically happened so that was a bit poopoo and then the other thing was that—
Geoff 9:44
Wow, a lot of screw things just happened. You just got really screwed, didn’t you.
Georgie 9:47
Totally. But the other thing was a watering can, which I know you can just—and we probably will—like later today just buy a fucking replacement from Bunnings. But I saw him, I saw, I looked outside the new apartment, like when they were emptying the elevator, and they had the plants, we got them to take the plants, and the watering can’s like on the ground. And I saw the guy picked it up and he kind of just threw it onto the trolley with the other things. And he just kinda like, wow. And I know it’s just like a metal watering can or whatever. But basically the next time Nick used it, he realised it was just leaking all over the floor because there was a hole in the bottom. But yeah, it was still, they did alright. They did alright. And they didn’t fuck up the TV.
Geoff 10:29
How did you find them again?
Georgie 10:31
Yeah, they were a local removalist.
Geoff 10:33
Right, right. Yeah you did say that.
Georgie 10:36
Yeah, he looked in a Facebook group or something for some locals recommendations, so yeah. But I have heard worse, I’ve heard people say that removalists have basically broken their shit or whatever. Oh, something funny. We we have a lot of alcohol, right? Because we make cocktails and things. And we moved that ourselves and I was just trying—
Geoff 10:56
Not because you’re alcoholics.
Georgie 10:59
Nick is really into like, trying different rums and stuff. So like specialty things.
Geoff 11:06
Yeah. COVID really brought out the mixologist.
Georgie 11:08
It did. It did. I mean, he had an RSA. But you know. But I was just trying to imagine like, imagine if you just get removalists to just move a whole bunch of booze and they just break all the, you know, imagine if they just broke all these bottles of extremely expensive alcohol.
Geoff 11:26
I, I always have like, like a car or something, you know, and I always try and put the things that I would rather not have broken, like my TVs, is shipped by car, or driven by car, bottles and stuff like that, that I don’t want broken. Always just stack them in the car. But yeah, I don’t leave everything to the, to the removalists. Which apparently, I mean. Yeah, I mean, like everything else considered, they, like my removalists were just fine. And that’s because I didn’t give them you know, responsibility of my TV.
Georgie 12:10
It’s like, that’s the most important thing.
Geoff 12:12
But like, don’t they have insurance of some sort?
Georgie 12:16
Oh, yeah, they do. Yeah.
Geoff 12:17
If they break something you can get them to pay for it. That’s the whole point. Right?
Georgie 12:22
Yeah. A lot of them like really hammer that in that, like, “we have insurance, by the way. Please pay for our services”.
Geoff 12:28
Cool. Cool. Cool. Alright. So yeah, if they broke my TV. I just get a new one, that’s great.
Georgie 12:33
Yeah, I mean, yeah, we talked about would we do it differently, right? Because I think a lot of people move in like one day, but they have all their stuff packed. So Nick pointed out that we didn’t really do any preparation. We kind of did most of our packing and stuff on the, like the Friday and the Saturday and Sunday. Whereas—
Geoff 12:53
Oh really?
Georgie 12:54
Yeah, so like I had packed my, my vinyl records away because I wasn’t gonna use them for like, a bunch of days, obviously. And my CDs of which I don’t have many. But like, we didn’t really pack away the kitchen stuff. We didn’t even pack away the booze, until like, the weekend that we were actually going to move.
Geoff 13:12
Man. That’s ballsy.
Georgie 13:15
Is it? Maybe we just, because we weren’t moving too far. We just, yeah. Anyway.
Geoff 13:20
Yeah. You also could go back and forth, right? It wasn’t like you were out of your lease or anything.
Georgie 13:26
Yeah, like so we had crossover of the, like o—like paying rent for both places. I guess you could say. I, I guess if I were to do it differently, and if we were moving a bit further away, I would probably hire a van and literally put everything in there that we wanted to put in there. Because then we would save trips right, because, here let me count, and add up how many trips we fucking did. So on the Friday, we did like two rounds. I think we did one round at lunch and another round in the evening. That round in the evening might have actually had two trips back and forth between the car.
Geoff 14:02
Oh my god.
Georgie 14:03
On the Saturday I think we did four... four rounds. Right. The first one I think we had one trip, I think the second one, two trips. I think the third one we had three trips, maybe, or four. And then the last one, so you can just imagine how many times we, yeah. But we were also packing stuff into the new apartment at the same time. So I don’t know, maybe, maybe some people be like, I don’t have time to do this. But I was like literally filling the drawers with shit. Stuff like that. Clothes, putting them away. And I was doing that. Well, we have a we have a few dumbbells, right, and so Nick was like going back to the car to do the dumbbells, while I was like filling the—yeah.
Geoff 14:45
Was he lunging? Was he lunging at the same time?
Georgie 14:48
No. I was just so cooked after the whole thing like—
Geoff 14:51
Do a workout.
Georgie 14:53
Oh my god, speaking of workout, my personal trainer had—like occasionally he does like kind of social events with his clients, and he wanted to do like a group workout. He organised it literally for like the Saturday we were like moving shit, and—but I still felt, like oh, I’ll come anyway, alright. And he said I could invite Nick so we basically started our moving with this fucking intense HIIT workout. Fucking cooked.
Geoff 15:24
The um, is that the opposite of being baked? Is like, being cooked.
Georgie 15:30
I don’t know but, I got the word cooked, I think from my from my personal trainer, because I don’t think I ever used that word before.
Geoff 15:38
Yeah, is it also because your last name is Cooke?
Georgie 15:41
Oh shit.
Geoff 15:46
I mean, do you get cooked?
Georgie 15:53
So many jokes are going to come out of this now.
Geoff 15:57
Oh.
Georgie 16:00
Yeah.
Geoff 16:00
You left it there.
Georgie 16:01
As opposed to being Chong’d.
Geoff 16:03
Yeah. Like, I know, I’m like from community channel does like Senior Chang, he always saying, “you just got Chang’d”. Oh, my god.
Georgie 16:16
Oh dear.
Geoff 16:20
Maybe Chong’d, like you got wronged. “Oh, don’t Chong me like that”.
Georgie 16:30
Oh, too good.
Geoff 16:32
But yeah, you were saying earlier about cleaners. You, you’re you’re a bit, you’re a bit miffed about cleaners? Why did you need to get cleaners?
Georgie 16:40
Why did we?
Geoff 16:41
You didn’t want to clean yourself? Is that is because you’re too cooked? Did they, did they Chong you? In any way?
Georgie 16:48
What—no, they did not. Have you gotten clean as for previous apartments you’ve rented?
Geoff 16:55
Ah, generally when we leave the apartment, and I used to live with an absolute clean nut. So generally, our apartments are cleaner than when we got them. But recently, like, they’ll just the last one, we cleaned inside out. But then they basically said, “Oh, it’s not clean enough”. And, and I said, why? Like what was wrong? And they said, “you didn’t even clean the oven”. And I said, even clean the oven? Cleaned everything, the place is like cleaner than we got it. And you’re like “even” the oven, fuck you.
Georgie 17:37
Did they give you like pictures? And did they do like an exit inspection?
Geoff 17:41
I really, I really wasn’t, like arsed to, do, like ask them for pictures or anything like that. Like the, I mean, to set the stage, when we moved in, there was one of the bathrooms that was basically used as a storage, so it didn’t actually get any real usage. And that was just a pit, if I recall correctly, and we inherited that. And here they are telling us we didn’t clean the bloody oven.
Georgie 18:11
So how did you get that resolved? Like did you just go back and clean it or?
Geoff 18:15
No, I wasn’t bothered. They said you could go back and clean it if you want. But was like, oh, screw cleaning an oven. So we just chose to let them have $400 of our bond or whatever, just to get them to shut up. Because it seems like a real catch 22, right. We go in and clean it. They come back. They say not good enough. And then we go well, we think it’s good enough. And they say well, we don’t think it’s good enough. Right? And then you just take them to tribunal or whatever. And you start showing before and after photos and yeah, yeah, two weeks go by and just like no one—
Georgie 18:50
So thought it was better to just like, takd bond money and deal with it.
Geoff 18:56
Yeah. Yeah. And you know, you usually get to that point when you go oh, my god, I get paid more per hour—like, I know privilege, but—you get paid more per hour. I don’t want to waste another two or three hours worrying about this shit. Like just take it and leave.
Georgie 19:12
Yeah, yeah. So basically, I was so like, over it, by by the end of hell, like moving. I was like, I’m over this place now. But we chose to get the cleaner, just thought it was the right thing to do. I guess we didn’t keep it in the best condition cleanliness wise. So we just thought it would be easier. And again, the privilege thing, we could pay someone to get it cleaned. So we didn’t have the best experience with this cleaning company we chose also later we learned from some friends of ours that if you use the cleaners that—or if you don’t use the cleaners that they suggest, like the real estate companies suggest—they might try and, just like you said, find a way to like complain about—
Geoff 19:54
Yeah, that’s such a big scam. Like it’s so—
Georgie 19:59
Yeah, the funny thing is when we came to this apartment, new apartment, fuck me, man, there was like sticky shit in the cupboards of the kitchen. And I’m like, you, this was like, after the end of this debacle I will explain in a moment, we were like, well, this place that we’re entering, which is by the same real estate company, was not left in the cleanest conditions either. Like the fucking inside drawers and shit was still dusty, and I basically to clean it before putting stuff back in. And the sticky shit was annoying because it was like, you know, need a little bit of elbow grease in there. So anyway, we went with a different company to the one that they suggested, because Nick was like, oh, maybe, you know, they just put some suggestion because they’ll get some commission or whatever the shit.
Geoff 20:43
Yeah.
Georgie 20:43
So we picked a company after doing a bit of research, reading reviews, again, we asked like some locals or whatever. Now, I’m gonna shit on this company, but I’m not going to name them. But I made I made a funny joke about them afterwards. So I won’t name them directly. But the company name is named after, I guess you could say, a Disney, a Disney character.
Geoff 21:08
Are they allowed to do that? Disney really hates people using the character names, right?
Georgie 21:13
It’s a good question. But—
Geoff 21:16
Like, “Mickey’s Cleaner“.
Georgie 21:19
I’m sure you can put two and two together. It makes, or like, figure it out. But without me saying it. I made this. I made this joke. And I said, “Go find your, go find your glass slipper and go in your pumpkin coach and and go home”. Because they had glowing reviews. And we had high expectations.
Geoff 21:40
Wait, one second? You’re naming your cleaning company after somebody who cleans for their evil stepsisters and step mom.
Georgie 21:52
Mhmm. And so I was like, I was basically saying like, I said this reflects badly on your vision. Because your company is named after a character who’s supposed to be extremely, very good at this.
Geoff 22:07
Are they? Does anyone, can anyone verify that she was good at her job?
Georgie 22:13
Yes, but you can assume right?
Geoff 22:15
Yeah, true.
Georgie 22:15
Yeah. So it was such a disaster. Basically, we booked them for 9:30. At 7:30 in the morning, they messaged and said that the people, the cleaners, because they have a team of cleaners.
Geoff 22:32
Yeah.
Georgie 22:32
So the people who, um, the two people who were assigned to our job, they were running late. And they said they’ll be about half an hour late. So I was I was fine, right? They gave us a lot of notice. And so we had time to go to the gym and whatnot. And then we’re just waiting in the old apartment, which is completely vacant, because we’ve moved out. It’s all empty, and it’s waiting to be fucking cleaned. And it’s like, almost 9:30. And they’re like, oh, sorry, we’re stuck in traffic we’ll be like, well, like 10 o’clock. I’m like, okay, fine.
Geoff 23:02
Jesus.
Georgie 23:02
And then like, and then it’s like almost 10:30. And I think they’re not, they haven’t arrived yet. But then I think Nick was about to call and then at the point at which they called, at the point at which he called, they arrived. Anyway, that was his big debcle because they got lost in our bloody maze of an old apartment building. They had parked in the shopping centre. And when we gave them directions, like go to the residential visitor parking. I think there was a misunderstanding. We were like, oh, did you park there? And it was like, okay, go to the top level. But when we said did you park there, I think they misunderstood. And they thought it was like, they thought the place they parked was what we were talking, we thought we were talking about the same thing.
Geoff 23:51
Yeah. Big mixup.
Georgie 23:54
Yeah, anyways, it ends up this big thing, where Nick basically gets in the car with the guy and I’m with a woman going to the apartment to show her where the apartment is and how to get there. So the woman is this older woman who, apparently she’s been with the company for quite a bit. But they, like the guy was new to the company. And the woman couldn’t drive and the woman kept saying, like, ah, they were really apologetic. But the woman was like, I don’t drive, I don’t know how to use the GPS or whatever.
Geoff 24:23
Oh what.
Georgie 24:25
So they got lost on the way there as well.
Geoff 24:29
Oh my god.
Georgie 24:31
So yeah, like it’s it’s like 10:30, 11, and Nick had to push back a couple of meetings and all of this. And you know, when when he contacted the company initially and said, we want, we have this apartment, he described it, right. It’s got a balcony, one balcony, like a balcony, but um, one bedroom, one study area. One this and that, like described it. And they were like, oh yeah, it’ll take like eight hours. So expectation was that it would take eight hours.
Geoff 24:58
Eight hours?!
Georgie 25:00
Yeah. And then Nick was like, so it doesn’t matter, because it ended up being like a flat rate for an end of lease clean. So we paid like, it doesn’t even matter the hourly rate. But, Nick said, you know, what happens if the estimate is like, over under? And they were like, oh, don’t worry, we will incur the cost, if we take longer we’ll, you know. But they said that they were, we’ve been doing this professionally for a while and you know, we’re pretty—basically expressed confidence in their estimates that they would be very near correct. So anyway, this team—
Geoff 25:34
Says every software engineer ever.
Georgie 25:37
Yeah right, I know? So this, this woman and this guy, eventually get in the apartment, it’s all good, we leave the key, a pair, a set of keys with them, and they clean the place, and like, four hours later? They call and they say they’re done.
Geoff 25:54
Oh, shit.
Georgie 25:55
And it’s like, ah, okay. And because Nick was in a meeting, I had to go run out and go to the old apartment and meet them. And they said that they had another job to go to, which is just a quick one, it was like two hours or whatever, general clean.
Geoff 26:08
How is that possible?
Georgie 26:10
I know, right? And it was still a bit odd, right? And Nick was like, hey, can you check and see if they did a good job, but then I realised the floor was still wet from them having wiped it so I was like, let’s just come back later. Because I had to go back to fucking work as well.
Geoff 26:22
Nah, we don’t need to work.
Georgie 26:24
Haha, yeah, but it’s just like, I mean, they were apologetic, but it was still like, well, you said you were late, and you were even later, and then whatever. And that was very strange that it took you only four hours to clean. So and then, Nick got a message or a call or something from the company. Like, I think it was four o’clock and they’re like, hey, can you pay for this by close of business today? And he was a bit miffed because we hadn’t even gone to check that they’d done a good job or not. And they were pushing for us to pay for it.
Geoff 26:54
Yeah I think generally, they don’t—yeah, generally you don’t check if they cleaned properly. If I re—
Georgie 27:02
They had a bond back guarantee, right. So we’re kind of we’re kind of relying on that. So we go back and check it later. And the fucking cupboard for the fridge was had all this dust in it, which I had actually shown them when we were telling them where things are. Yeah, it’s a bit dusty in there. That was probably the worst, like most dust, most dusty place.
Geoff 27:26
Yeah, it’s where the fridge was.
Georgie 27:28
Yeah, and I know we could have we could have cleaned it ourselves. But we’ve moved the vacuum to the fucking new place already. And then... anyway. Like, we hired you to clean the fucking place, basically.
Geoff 27:39
Yeah.
Georgie 27:42
And the drawers, just like the new apartment we moved into, like, had dust in them. Wasn’t clean. They didn’t even wipe the little sink in the laundry.
Geoff 27:55
Jesus.
Georgie 27:57
It’s just like, it’s just like, what five centimeters or whatever. But they did clean the windows. They did clean the balcony but there was still some like stains on the balcony from like pot, the, our plants. So what they did—what they cleaned, they cleaned the oven, was a good job. What they did clean was good. But then there was some stuff that
Geoff 28:18
Four hours on the oven. Just the oven. Then they just walked out. Yeah, like and then just mop the floor or something.
Georgie 28:26
Yeah. And like, we, so we were there in the afternoon actually finished work and we’re just trying to like clean clean off the shit that they left, right. Later, later on, Nick was like, oh, maybe I should have called them and like, you know, told him to—
Geoff 28:38
Take, take a bunch of photos. You should have like just...
Georgie 28:41
But then what happened was, the next day—so we spent like fucking 20 minutes like cleaning up after them essentially, and I was just like, so over it. Like, I don’t mean to be... you know, but it’s like, I paid, we paid for your thing.
Geoff 28:54
Yeah.
Georgie 28:55
Not great, blabla. So we get the exit report from the landlord and the property manager like two days later and they indicated that thankfully there’s like no no damage, right? Don’t tell them we repa—
Geoff 29:09
Yeah the paint? Don’t listen to my podcasts.
Georgie 29:13
Yeah, yeah. But they pointed out some parts that were not clean. And so they they said like thank you for taking care of the apartment, but I’m afraid your cleaner didn’t do a good job, doesn’t look like you hired the cleaners we suggested, so can you get them to come back. Which wasn’t a problem because they have a bond back guarantee and stuff. But like they have all these photos of—maybe I could say that they were being petty, but I’m like, nah, I agree with, I agree with you. Like this corner has dust in it. And you took a photo, and the fucking dryer still, the vent in the dryer or whatever.
Geoff 29:48
Yeah.
Georgie 29:48
Wasn’t vacuumed. So I’m like yeah, I agree with you. And there was like a stain on the kitchen sink. And I’m like yeah, I agree with you, like, they should have cleaned that off and like, we even like verify like, you can like kind of scratch at it maybe with a bit of nail, like with your fingernail or something, but it would come off if you worked harder I guess.
Geoff 30:08
Yeah.
Georgie 30:09
So I couldn’t really complain about the exit report because none of it was BS. So we end up, yeah, Nick ended up contacting the company and like putting them in touch with the agent so they could then get entry and I think they’re cleaning again today. Like....
Geoff 30:25
Oh okay.
Georgie 30:26
But then if they don’t do a good job...
Geoff 30:28
Just keep them coming back.
Georgie 30:31
Nah I think they might, like, like you said, they might just take money out of the bond. But, you know, it just wasn’t a great experience. That’s a bit of a shame. Because we were saying how we have first time customers of this cleaning company, and they just put like, two people who never worked together. And then the whole thing about it took eight hours over they said it would take eight hours. It took like four, and they had another job to go to which is a little bit odd.
Geoff 30:53
Yeah, just someone must have called in after four hours and been like, look, I’m gonna pay you $1,000 to come and clean my apartment. “Alright, see you later! Screw this”. Yeah, that’s, that’s pretty shitty. But you know what’s really clean? Our endings to our episodes. So, yeah, that’s all we got for today. Yeah, that’s pretty shitty. But yeah, we are ending the podcast so don’t forget to follow us on @toastroastpod on Instagram and Twitter. Mostly Twitter and Instagram.
Georgie 31:41
Yeah, we have new episodes every week. On Apple Podcasts, Spotify and the big go clean your apartment.
Geoff 31:50
Yeah, take the shit out of your apartment. And so yeah, we’ll see you, we’ll see you next week.
Georgie 31:59
Bye.