Window Cleaning Massage Parlour

Due to Google linking Squeegee Pro with a massage parlour the blog title has been changed. If you are looking for Squeegee Pro window cleaning company - go here.




Can you believe this coincidence? I'm only in town (Amsterdam) for the ISSA cleaning conference & a story like this rolls up in front of me! ...

Busy massage parlor bugs neighbour: Irvine – At first, the new owners of a window cleaning business in a quiet industrial park in Irvine didn't notice the steady stream of men visiting the establishment next door. However, as Paul Slaney and Elizabeth Meehan (pictured) settled into their new jobs at Squeegee Pro on April 1, a clear picture emerged. They noticed the business next door had no displayed name – just a lit "Open" sign beckoning from behind a darkened window. They noticed the constant foot traffic, even on weekends, to the nameless tenant of the Main & Redhill Business Center.

And they noticed that most male clients – many well dressed, and most driving expensive cars – would leave, after some 30 to 45 minutes, clutching bottled water. "I went home and did an Internet search of 'Squeegee Pro' and 'sex' – two words that should never go together," Slaney said. What he discovered was enough to compel him and Meehan, his business partner and wife, to try to get out of their lease – or get it slashed in half.

The business next door, Slaney discovered, is an "erotic massage parlor" where men pay for various sex acts, according to online reviews that identify it by address and by exterior photographs. The occupants of 18218 E. McDurmott, Suite G have gotten the attention of Irvine police, who are conducting an investigation to determine what kind of business it is and if the business is properly licensed, Irvine police spokesman Lt. John Hare said. According to a preliminary investigation, the business is a chiropractic service that also offers massages, Hare said. The probe into possible criminal activity continues, he said. As Slaney and Meehan see it, running a business next to a tenant that may be engaged in illegally activity is bad for their bottom line.

They say they had no idea who their neighbor was when they assumed the lease from the prior owner of Squeegee Pro, which owns a fleet of trucks that are sent out to homes and business through Orange County. Clients rarely visit the Squeegee Pro office. Still, that's not the point, according to Slaney and Meehan. "This establishment (next door) creates an unbearable working environment ... and greatly reduces the value of the leasehold," Slaney wrote to his property manager April 21, demanding termination of his $2,349-per-month lease that expires May 2011.

Slaney and Meehan work in front of a window that provides a clear view of the customers heading into and out of the business next door. "The place is just hopping with 'Johns,''' said Slaney, referring to the term used for male clients of prostitutes. "It's disgusting. "As a woman, I particularly feel uncomfortable. And reading about sex-trafficking and the exploitation of women, I'm just appalled." Apparently, the chiropractic/massage parlor has been in business for years.

A woman who Slaney and Meehan believes is the manager of the massage parlor often visits Squeegee Pro, delivering plates of strawberries to the office manager and two tenants who sublease space from the window cleaning business. "Maybe that's her way of trying to stay in our good graces," Slaney said. One website Slaney turned up identifies the business next to Squeegee Pro as Young Chiropractic Clinic. The site rates the female masseuses there by name, as well as the quality of the sexual acts they perform.

One blogger, describing the location of where he got serviced, mentioned that the establishment is located directly across from Squeegee Pro. And the 18218 McDurmott address is mentioned on other websites that cater to men looking for sex. Slaney and Meehan say the alleged activities going on next door are appalling enough, but what also upsets them is the stance of their landlord.

Davis Partners LLS, which manages the business park for owner Prudential Real Estate Investors, is unwilling to reduce Squeegee Pro's rent or renegotiate the lease, according to Slaney. A Davis Partners representative told Slaney he was the first tenant to complain about the business in Suite G. The representative did offer, however, to move Squeegee Pro to another space in the business park – something he and Meehan aren't considering. "It would be unfair and expensive," Slaney said. "We would have to reprint our business cards and other materials, and it would not be fair to the two tenants we sublease space to. "If anyone should be forced out, shouldn't it be them?" Slaney said, referring to the occupant of Suite G. Marc Buchanan, a principal of Davis Partners who spoke to Slaney about his complaint, did not return a phone call.

An undercover Irvine police detective, responding to a complaint by Squeegee Pro, paid a visit, along with a city code enforcement official, to the allegedly illicit massage parlor last week. The business was cited for plumbing and electrical code violations, Hare said. The detective told Slaney that Irvine police shut down a similar establishment in the same business park a few months ago. Hare could not confirm that. In less than 24 hours after being cited April 21 for the code violations, the establishment next to Squeegee Pro was back in business. In a span of two hours around lunchtime Friday, three men visited Suite G, apparently with pre-scheduled appointments. Two of the men drove BMWs, the third – a middle-aged man dressed in a white shirt and tie – a Lexus SUV. When the Register called the massage parlor, a woman answered the phone. She said "hello" without giving the name of the business. She said rates for a massage were $50 for 30 minutes and $80 for an hour. Asked what other services were available beyond a massage, the woman said: "You come by and see me. I don't tell you over the phone."