Who is Behind Home Clean Home?

​Meet Samuel Mejía, manager and owner of Home Clean Home. A native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Samuel moved to Georgia at the age of 16 and lived in North Decatur. He studied mechanical drafting at DeKalb Technical Institute (presently GA Piedmont Technical College). Although he never dreamed of owning a small business, his journey prepared him to do just that.

In the early 1990's, Samuel moved to Wallkill, NY and lived there for three years. Then, after forming a family, he settled in northern New Jersey and 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. After four-and-a-half years with the company, now with a baby daughter to care for, a greater opportunity arrived when he saw a full-page job ad in the newspaper. Regional carrier Bell Atlantic was seeking customer service reps. After landing the job in late spring of 2000, Samuel was surprised to learn that the job was actually geared toward sales and he would be trained as a sales rep for the company's landline division. Two weeks into his training, Bell Atlantic acquired telephone company GTE and transformed into megacarrier Verizon. With the explosive boom of wireless communications around the turn of the century, it seemed like landlines were destined to oblivion. But as the landline business was steadily declining in the early 2000's, it turned out that Samuel was witnessing a transition in wired communications: the sunset of copper-wire telephone lines and the dawn of FTTP (Fiber To The Premises) technology. With Verizon Fios, the company spearheaded FTTP to introduce blazing-speed fiber-optic data and TV to the market. As early as 2005, Samuel was driving sales of Fios as the company continued deploying it in the Mid-Atlantic, the Northeast, Texas and Florida. He remained with Verizon's residential sales for 14 years and was privileged to blaze the trail for the fiber broadband market in the US.

In late 2012, Samuel lost his wife to a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Then, in fall of 2014 he left New Jersey and returned to Georgia with his daughter. Exhausted from the high-pressured and competitive sales environment of a major company, he grew determined to be self-employed in a low-tech industry. Focusing on the residential cleaning business, 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. Samuel and his team have been serving NE Atlanta, Decatur and its surrounding communities ever since. Coming from the highly-competitive coffee and telecommunications industries, Samuel came prepared to lead his business and serve people. The lessons he learned in those businesses have served him well in caring for his clients. Samuel bases Home Clean Home's principles on respect and honesty, qualities that seem to be disappearing in many places. He also focuses on the customer experience. As a result, many of his recurrent service clients have retained Home Clean Home for years. With 30 years of experience serving people in different industries, Samuel is happy to lead his business in helping Atlanta's householders care for their homes and take pride in them.
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