Cheaters using maids to avoid hotels

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Cheaters using maids to avoid hotels

By Tara Palmeri
September 9, 2013 | 8:22am

Cheaters in Manhattan are having trysts at home to avoid pricey hotels and then hiring a maid to clean up the mess.

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Manhattan love cheats have hit a new low.

With the economy still struggling, more are having illicit trysts in their own pads — and then hiring a maid on the cheap to clean up to avoid renting pricey hotel rooms, sources told The Post.

“We don’t ask — we know that we need to check everything: that there is no hair on the floor, in the shower, no hair in the bathtub, no lipstick, nothing there to show that something happened before,” said David Brugiatelli of the cleaning service Little Elves New York.

One paranoid philanderer wrote in an instant message to the Handybook maid service, “I need to have a cleaning tomorrow, but the timing is critical.

“Girlfriend coming to stay for a week stay needs to be cleaned well and any other female evidence needs to be removed (no hairs, make-up smudges, etc.).

“I can count on someone coming without question though right?”

The cleaning companies said they’ve seen an uptick — particularly this summer — in requests for last-minute jobs focused on the bedroom. The cost can run as little as $50.

“It’s obviously cheaper to have your apartment cleaned than use a hotel room in Manhattan,” said Handybook founder Oisin Hanrahan.

The call for a quick-hit cleaning can come at any hour — and always with a request to be discreet.

“They say, ‘Can you come now and not announce who you are to the doorman?’ ”said Alpha Living General Manager Andrew Lewis.

“They don’t want somebody to know that their house is being cleaned for a specific reason.’’

MyClean rep Mike Brody said his agency has gotten lots of “special requests’’ for maids to concentrate on the bedroom.

“Customers will ask us to ‘please make sure to wash and replace the sheets, remove stains and remake the bed,’ ” he said.

But Dinee Harris of Great Green Cleaning said that if her agency suspects that an “urgent’ job involves cleaning up after an infidelity, she won’t send a maid out on it because it might put the worker in danger.

“Who knows what will happen when the wife comes home,” she said.

GetMaid co-founder Demetri Karagas said his single clients will often book a cleaning on their mobile app while they’re on a date — thinking they’re going to get lucky.

“We get a lot of, ‘Hey I’m on a date, I’m going to be home in a couple of hours, can you make sure the place is clean?’ ” he said.

One frequent customer, Jasper Engel, 24, explained, “You get to that moment on the date and start thinking, ‘Maybe I’m going to bring this girl home with me,’ [and] the first thought that enters your mind is, ‘What does my apartment look like right now?’

“There’s like this magic element — you end up impressing your date without her even knowing you’re impressing her.”