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I think with as pushy as this woman is, doing the first option is probably the best bet, especially if she wants to have the potential to tutor this kid again
I would just stick to the plan and let her come in for one more cleaning. There's nothing on paper so it would be really easy for this lady to screw your sister over. Better to keep her happy and hope she pays the $60
She is a teacher. You do not want someone to speak badly about you when their kid is the age your sister teaches/tutors. It could hurt future business. I would continue with the one cleaning and get cash for the rest.
Your sister should ask for her to bring cash with her when she comes to clean so they can settle up all at once.
I doubt this woman will want to pay out the full $145. I don't think your sister is wrong to cancel the bartering agreement, this woman clearly knew what she was doing, she wanted free or almost free tutoring for her son.
I agree, let the pushy woman do one more cleaning and pay your sister $60. That seems fair, since their agreement was to barter services, the woman should get the chance to pay off what she owes your sister in cleaning services, and not be stuck with a cash bill that she wasn't planning to owe. Whatever the woman 's actions (and yeah it doesn sound like she maybe tried to trick her?), your sister can at least rest assured that she treated the pushy woman with complete fairness.... even if pushy woman wasn't fair with her.
thanks for the comments and votes bees, i will pass it onto my sister. you all make good points! although i am curiouis to hear arguments from people voting the other way.
@PurpleUnicorn: I think it depends when this cleaning is scheduled for. If it is in a day or two, then it may be too late to cancel. Did they have a cancellation discussion?
But it isn't not for a few days (I think 72 hours in advance is the most any business could ever expect, but also 24 hours is probably enough) then I think she can cancel and get back her money.
This is purely a business arrangement, and if she wants to cancel she should be able to with the appropriate notice. I think she should consider it as though she was working with Molly Maid. How much notice would she have to give to cancel services? How long before each individual clearning.
The same is true of her tudoring sessions. She deserves adequate notice to cancel the services.
@cbgg: lol. i forgot about this thread then just saw it pop up. If anyone cares, my sis went ahead with the one cleaning and the woman paid her the remaining $60 in cash.
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Here is the story. My sister does a lot of tutoring as she is a teacher. One of her clients that paid her twice a week to tutor her kid for a full year before my sister got a house is also a cleaning lady. Well, she cleans houses, sells jewelry and gives pottery lessons and manages to maintain a million dollar house.
So when my sister got her own house, this client of hers offered to barter with my sister in that she will clean the house in exchange for tutoring services. And she said they will keep track on paper who owes who what (since their prices and frequency of services varied). That was their deal.
Now my sister has had to re-evaluate her finances and is trying to cut back significantly on her spending. As it stands, this woman would owe my sister $145 for tutoring if the bartering ceased immediately.
So my sister decided she could no longer afford it and would have to clean her own house. She called the woman to tell her and the woman said "well can i do one more cleaning so i only owe you $60". And she said she would keep up the tutoring. My sister said okay even though she would have preferred to have the money. Then 2 days later, the woman called my sister to schedule the last cleaning and also said she does not need tutoring for her kid anymore as she is working with him herself and she will call my sister if she gets stuck. So my sister feels like the woman tricked her.
I have met this woman too and she is VERY pushy. Its clear that is how she makes her money. She is good at pushing people to buy and do what she wants.
So now, my sister wants to cancel this last cleaning and ask for the full amount owed, but is 1) afraid the woman will talk her out of it and she doesn't want to argue with her .... and 2) my sister wonders if she is wrong for cancelling because of their bartering agreement and maybe the woman would have cancelled tutoring for her kid a long time ago if she knew she had to pay cash.
what do you think my sister should do? Keep the last cleaning and hopefully get $60 from this woman (who did try to get her schedule TWO more cleanings so she wouldn't have to pay my sister any money and might still try to do so), OR cancel the last cleaning she didn't want and demand all her money ($145)