June 6, 2021. Canyon Lake, Texas. Lake House Housekeeper.

Over 20 years ago, we hired Carol to clean our house at Canyon Lake. Her daughter in Law helped her. Her task was to check on the house twice a week to be sure all was well, plus clean the house once a month. She never was a good cleaner but she was dependable so we kept her. And we paid her automatically from our bank account so she knew she was getting incole every month. As time went by, without saying to us, she went to checking the house once a week. Then after a few more years she stopped checking the house at all. But she did clean the house once a month. We never increased her payment because she was reducing her hours every month. She always looked old, even 20 years ago. David installed a motion detector in the house. Evidently, this older lady turned on a radio the minute she and her daughter in law entered the house and kept it at hight volume while listening to hard rock music. We all laughter to think of the sight. But two months ago she died. It took a couple of months before the daughter in law contacted us but eventually we stopped the funds going to her. But now we have no one to clean the house. It was surprisingly difficult but finally David hired two ladies to clean once a month at a charge more than double Carol's salary. They have cleaned once. Tomorrow they are coming again. Evidently they speak no English so life will be interesting. I am not imvolved with directions or payment so I do not know if David wants them to come every month or just whenever they are called. But we will soon find out. I bet this cleaning service will not last for 20 years and I feel sure that they will do a better job.