I used to clean houses when I was in college and then single mom with low income. If I walked in and saw a gun randomly laying around, I’d be out and never come back. Heck I might not even want to clean houses for gun owners who don’t lock their guns even if I didn’t see the actual gun.

The thing is you got used to guns laying around your house. It doesn’t scare you. But for many people it’s complete nightmare. For all we know maybe she lost someone to gun violence and was triggered. I literally don’t know a single person who keeps guns laying around so for me it would a huge shock and I am not even easily scared.

She didn’t involve someone random. Wasn’t it someone who actually knows her and you?

I do agree it’s stupid to complain that the house is dirty but it depends. Was there initial assessment done? Did she know much work it’s going to be? Like if I was told it’s about 4 hours of work and it will be $100, but when I show up I see that the house probably needs 8 hours of work and the pay is the same, I might change my mind real quick

Ideally she’d text you herself. Yes it would be better. But she was freaked out by a gun and you were not really her client yet. So she thought it was ok to involve someone who made a referral