The original J & A Cleaning Services started in the summer of 2011. Christina Hasegawa, President of J & A Hill Country Cleaning Inc., worked as a Biller & Coder at a small billing office in Monterey, California. She was laid off due to the economy's decline in the fall of 2010, and the small business she worked for needed to make cuts to stay afloat. This was another blow to Christina's life as she had just found out that week her father-in-law, whom she loved and adored, had been diagnosed with Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer. Christina felt it would be good to take a sabbatical to help care for Mr. Hasegawa Sr. instead of looking for work right away. It was a choice she does not regret because Mr. Hasegawa Sr. passed away 4 months after his diagnosis.
This was a devastating time for the family, and she, her husband, and their little babies were struck with grief; a beloved, humble, loving family man, a patriarch, had passed away. Christina took some time to heal and reflected deeply about life and all the events that had taken place so suddenly. She decided it was time to change her career and do something meaningful in a way that would help people, give her a flexible schedule, allow her to spend more time with her family, and make an honest living. Entrepreneurship and having a sustainable business was her dream. She also wanted to find ways to stimulate the economy and thought creating jobs in the recession was a healthy goal and something she could work toward.
Christina took some personal inventory and did lots of research. She found the cleaning industry to be the pick of the crop! She started thinking she would be a sole proprietor and began from scratch. On 7.11.11, J & A Cleaning Services was official. With a credit card and a list she made, she bought her first cleaning supplies! Her first vacuum was German-made and even used in the White House. It was called the Sebo Vacuum, and it was amazing! RIP SEBO VACUUM; it saw many homes and had a good run! She was pumped. JACS was officially ready to launch that September after their move out of the Salinas Valley to the Bay Area, CA. Oscar Hasegawa Jr., her husband, left his career as a production assistant at a local news station to join his wife at JACS. He never looked back! Oscar partnered up with his wife Christina, and together they built JACS from the ground up. Starting as a husband and wife team, they gained momentum and had a full schedule working M-F and servicing up to 6 homes a day. They had to hire teams as JACS was in demand and did not have enough workers to service the clients. They had a waiting list in their heyday and had to turn down work so as not to compromise current customers and the services they brought to each one's home.
FLASH FORWARD to 2022, 10 years after J&A Cleaning Services was created, they decided to close up shop. Oscar's mom had found love again and moved to Texas with her hubby who had lived there for 20 plus years. They visited mom in Spring Branch, Texas and fell in love with the culture, the vibe, the people, and the way of life. They wanted a better life for the kids and themselves too. So they closed JACS and moved to Hill Country in the Spring Branch/Bulverde Area. Seeing that there was a need for more cleaning services, and being in the business for many years, they opened J & A Hill Country Cleaning Inc.
Christina & Oscar Hasegawa look forward to contributing to their new community and getting involved as much as they can. They are excited and happy to be in Texas and look forward to the future! Cheers!
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Christina's great-grandfather, Frank Dacpano Sr., served in the Korean War as part of the US First Filipino Infantry. His legacy lives on as many of Frank's children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren have proudly served and continue to serve the USA. God Bless America and all those who protect and defend it!