Event space owner demands cleaning fees from all clients, claiming they leave the place ‘unusable’, one client puts an end to her scams by leaving detailed reviews: ‘Her rating dropped from 4.8 to 2.9’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
May 6, 2025 7:00 AM EDT

It's funny how some people, even though they are perfectly capable of earning money in a just and honorable way, are still constantly seeking ways to 'rig the system' and get even more out of it. Here you have an owner of a space, for example, who can probably make a decent amount of money by renting it out to others for the night. If this owner is a decent person, they charge a respectable fee for the use of the space, ensure their clients are having a good time, get good reviews for it, and continue to do it and make fine earnings from this endeavor. 

However, when the owner is not a decent person, they might try to scam their clients out of even more money than what they signed up for. They would do anything to get a few extra hundred dollars here and there, even if it means their clients are left unhappy. Even if it means their business is suffering from bad reviews, which is exactly what happened in the story below.

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  • Luckily, some people do not sit silently when they are being scammed out of their money, and are willing to put others in their place when they are wronged. Hopefully, a lesson can be learned here, and the owner would understand that an honest job can earn her much more than her scams, but we'll have to wait and see about that…

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  • She charged me $1,200 in “cleaning fees.” So I cleaned her reviews.

    I rented a small event space for a surprise party. The place looked nice online, decent price, and the host seemed polite enough, until after the event.
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  • Out of nowhere, she hits me with a $1,200 "deep cleaning" bill. Said we left the place "unusable." Which was wild, because we barely used the kitchen and left it cleaner than we found it.
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  • I asked for proof. She sent blurry photos of trash...not even ours. I appealed through the booking platform. Denied. She was clearly running a side hustle: scam a few hundred
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  • off each booking and hope no one fights too hard. So I did my own cleaning. I found her business on every platform I could (Yelp, Google,
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  • Facebook, event site) and left detailed, calm, 1-star reviews with photos from our event showing how spotless the place was when we left.
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  • Turns out, I wasn't the only one. My reviews picked up traction. Others came forward with the same scam. Within weeks, her rating dropped from 4.8 to 2.9.
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  • Last I checked? She's offering 50% off all bookings. Guess someone's trying to clean up her reputation.
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  • Customer reviews. 458 325 92 24 13 4 Rate it Write review
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  • SnooWords4839 That is great! Now someone you know should rent it out at the 50% and say how horrible the place is even at a steep discount.
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  • No_Routine 7027 OP LM. O D
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  • 57_Eucalyptusbreath Good! Happy you showed the world her dishonesty. Lying has got be made out of style again!
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  • No_Routine 7027 OP And it's so dumb because she could run things properly and still make money. People are becoming so empty these days
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  • Large Fudge6833 Good for you! You could file a dispute with your credit card company and I would definitely file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau.
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  • No_Routine7027 OP Is this true?
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  • firedncr24 If you have proof, you can definitely file for fraud with your credit card within a time period. They will ask you for proof, and if you have it they usually rule in your favor.
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  • delulu4drama You deep cleaned her future client possibilities ☺
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  • No_Routine7027 OP She got what she looked for
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  • True Stand186 I wonder if you could threaten to take her to small claims court.
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  • No_Routine7027 OP Actually someone here told me I can. I'm not sure yet, I'll take a look
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  • rocnation88 This is textbook revenge! Thank you, kindly. May we all learn how to do revenge like this
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  • No_Routine 7027 OP I feel honored and scammed at the same time
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