The Backdrop to Home Clean Home

​Meet Samuel Mejía, manager and owner of Home Clean Home. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Samuel moved to Georgia at the age of 16 and lived in North Decatur. He graduated from Shamrock High School and studied mechanical drafting at DeKalb Technical Institute (presently GA Piedmont Technical College).

In the 1990's, Samuel moved to upstate New York and lived there for three years. After forming a family, he settled in northern New Jersey. He became a delivery driver for Coffee Associates Inc, a coffee-roasting company serving restaurants in New York City and the tri-state area. Within two years he was promoted to Assistant Plant Manager and loved the employee perk every Friday: one pound of freshly ground coffee to take home. However, with a baby daughter to care for, after four-and-a-half years with the company, it was time to look for a bigger opportunity. In 2000 he found that opportunity when he was hired as a sales rep by regional carrier Bell Atlantic. Two weeks into his job, Bell Atlantic acquired GTE and rebranded itself Verizon. From 2006, with nascent FTTP technology and the rollout of Verizon Fios in the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, Florida and Texas, he was privileged to blaze the trail for fiber broadband in the US. He remained in consumer sales with Verizon's landline / fiber division for 14 years.

Then, in late 2012, Samuel lost his wife to a rare and aggressive form of cancer, nearly six months after diagnosis. In fall of 2014 he left New Jersey and moved back to Georgia with his daughter. Exhausted from the high pressure and competitive sales environment of a major corporation, Samuel was determined to be self-employed in a low-tech industry. Focusing on the residential cleaning business, in 2015 he started offering cleaning services door to door, leaving business cards with people and buying ads in community newsletters.
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​In 2016 Samuel founded Home Clean Home in North Decatur and assembled a team, a group of hard-working friends that are like family. The lessons he learned in the coffee business and a major telecommunications company have served him in managing his business and caring for his clients. He and his team have been serving NE Atlanta, Decatur and its surrounding communities ever since. With 30 years of experience serving people in different industries, Samuel is happy to lead his team in helping Atlanta's householders care for and take pride in their homes.
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