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How Not To Market Your Cleaning Service: Breaking And Entering

By on June 7, 2012 in Featured / News

She wasn’t robbing the place, just doing some unorthodox marketing:

Westlake police now have a woman in custody they said is the “cleaning fairy” burglar.

According to the Westlake Police Department, Elyria police officers stopped the 53-year-old woman Tuesday night.

The so-called “cleaning fairy” burglar is currently in jail, but she has not yet been charged.

Police said the woman dubbed a real-life “cleaning fairy” broke into a house last week and a left a bill for the housework she did. According to police, the woman entered the Dover Center Road residence while homeowner Mallory Bush slept, did some light cleaning and left a bill for $75 on a napkin before leaving.

Unfortunately for the “cleaning fairy,” crime doesn’t pay.

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,198 posts to the site.

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  • http://wahm.business-opportunities.biz Angela Shupe

    I vaguely remember hearing about a cleaning service who sent its workers to the wrong home. It was a news article I read some time back. The woman came home to find her home had been cleaned. A month later she caught the people trying to get in. It turned out the maid service had made a mistake with the address.

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