If this is the case, then it betrays significant naivety on the part of the OP (which is my assertion of the question in general). Good cleaning people/individ

If this is the case, then it betrays significant naivety on the part of the OP (which is my assertion of the question in general). Good cleaning people/individuals, not just cleaning services, are not easy to find. My household has gone through a handful and at times struggled to keep the good ones. The same goes for competency in many other jobs, like plumbing and yard work, that may be considered "unskilled" or not. The difference between some of these is that you often hire cleaning or yardwork services on a regular or scheduled basis, so you have a nice feedback loop on determining their value (both monetarily and for keeping them around/finding a new one). Versus services like plumbers, who most people only call when there is a problem (that is, no one keeps a plumber on retainer).