For a dispute involving a cleaning company, it’s awfully messy.
In 2022, Scottsdale couple Jessie Cotes and Ken Ahern hired Mesa-based cleaning company Cardinal Clean to store their belongings and perform restoration work on the condo where they lived. They said they were given a quote of $17,000 for the work but were instead hit with a surprise bill for $61,000, a markup supposedly to account for cleaning a thin layer of “fecal matter” off their things.
Cotes and Ahern refused to pay, and now the company has held their possessions hostage — including several valuable items of sports memorabilia — for the last three years…