Dana's Housekeeping is not really a maid service, in the sense of say Maid Brigade. In a typical maid service, the cleaners come in packs, with equipment, and follow essentially a script for cleaning. What Dana's does (or at least did while we used them) is arrange a specific cleaner to come over and spend about a half day on generalized cleaning.
This goes much better if you prepare a checklist of what you want done. And give it to the actual cleaner - the staff at Dana's won't pay any attention to it. Also, TIP your Dana's cleaner, because they don't get paid much - about half of the cleaning fee, which is less expensive than any other local service. And lastly, don't be afraid to ask for a different one. They vary in quality by a lot.
Once you've "broken in" a cleaner, they can be very effective. Unfortunately, turn-over is pretty high. This may be an industry wide problem, but you notice it more when it's one cleaner who has to learn the process than when using a more traditional several-cleaner crew where only one of the employees is new at any time.
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