House Cleaning

House cleaning is a good career choice that can make you a nice livable income. To be clear, this is a job where you go into other people's houses and clean their houses for them. If you don't like cleaning or aren't meticulous with your cleaning, this is not the job for you!

Let me share a few things from my perspective about the House Cleaning business.

Providing The House Cleaning Services

I will state, knowing people in this business, that generally the first few cleanings are the biggest job because there's a lot of deep cleaning that has to take place. Then it's just a matter of keeping on top of these areas. It's common for house cleaners to charge more for the deep cleaning phase and the homeowners completely understand why.

How you structure the house cleaning for each homeowner is up to you. It's not uncommon to have one idea of how you'll structure everything starting out and then after gaining experiences and after having cleaned quite a few houses your tweaking your structure.

With house cleaning the idea is you'll clean their house every 1 to 2 weeks for 1-2 hours depending on the agreement you have with them.

In addition to offering deep cleaning as the entry to doing ongoing house cleaning for them, you can choose what rooms you'll clean and what other services you may offer homeowners.

Take a look at what others in your area are offering and what they're charging to get some ideas.

Sales And Marketing

Generally people who do service businesses like the idea that there's very little sales and marketing compared to other businesses. Once you fill your schedule to the number of hours you want to work a week, you are done with the sales and marketing side and will shift to providing the services to your clients.

This is one of the reasons people like ongoing service based jobs is the need to do sales and marketing is limited to their filling their schedule for the number of hours they want to work each week.

Like any service based business and your being your own boss once you fill your schedule to the number of hours you want to work a week, you are done with the sales and marketing side and will shift to the service side of the business.

If you're a great cleaner and develop a good rapport with your clients they'll be referring you to their friends.

Income

The income you'll make is dependent on the city you live in and the area you'll serve, the going rate in your area and how many hours a week you work. It's pretty safe to use $30/hour as an example of what you will make doing this job. Some cities may drop down to $25/hr, but most will support higher than $30/hour.

Let's say you work 6 hours a day at $30/hr for 5 days a week... that's $900/wk and $3,600/mo.

Remember, you control the hours. If you want or need to make more money then have more clients and work more hours.

A Pretty Thorough Course On House Cleaning I'm Recommending...

A course I'm going to recommend you check out if you're interested in creating a house cleaning business shows you making $1,500/wk ($150 per client x 10 clients). I have not gone through the course so I don't know how she comes up with $150/client but I'm sure she'll explain it in the course.

A friend of mine who cleans houses in a ritzy community was charging $150-$200 per client. I have no idea what he offered or how many cleanings he did for this fee. My point is, from personal experience I know it's possible to make $150 per client. I just don't know how they structured the agreement. Clearly you'll learn this in the course.

She also talks about hiring others and growing your business to even far greater income levels, which I totally agree with!

From reviewing her sales page it's a pretty thorough course on house cleaning. Lilian even shows you how to professional clean a house! You need to check out the course to see everything you'll learn... it's a lot. 

Even if you decide not to build a house cleaning business, for the price of this course I'd get it just to learn how to professionally clean my house.

After having looked at so many courses this is one of the more thorough ones. You just need to check out everything you're going to learn in this course... "House Cleaning University". 

The friend I have who's doing house cleaning, I recommended he create a course a few years ago, but he never did. Lilian's course I'm recommending to you covers the same things I told my friend he needed to include if he created a course so I'm pretty pleased with the everything included in this course.

In addition to everything you'll learn in this course, I was also really shocked at the price. I told my friend that if created a really thorough course he should offer it for $295, or give people the ability to purchase specific modules at a lower price.

Lilian is offering her whole course for just $45! I'm just going to tell you, that's a steal! If a house cleaning business is of interest to you, you need to grab this course!

Should you choose to jump on this business, here's a few more pointers to help you make even more money...

Other Opportunities Which Support House Cleaning

There are other services you can offer your clients beyond house cleaning which can increase the hours you work and increase your pay. Here are a few to consider...

• It's not uncommon for people to have rentals. Offer rental move-out cleaning. This is where a tenant moves out and you clean the place to prepare it for the next tenant.
  • You can also do marketing do rental move-out cleaning to individuals who own rentals. You can also market to property management companies.
• Offer a Pre-Guest cleaning. This is where your clients are planning on guest coming over so you do a cleaning that day so their home looks great for the guests they'll be entertaining.
• Offer a Post-Guest cleaning. This is where your clients had guest over and you clean up after them.
• House Sitting. If you have clients who travel you can offer house sitting. You're already cleaning their home so they already trust you.
• Dog Poop. If your clients have dogs you could also offer yard poop clean up.
  • You could hire someone to handle this job while you're cleaning the house.
• You could also look for products you could sell to your clients focused around the services you offer with the core service being house cleaning. You could start an eCommerce website where your clients could purchase products and then when you come for the next cleaning you could deliver it.
  • Of course you could offer these products to others beyond your clients giving you another income source and business opportunity.
• You could add a Landscaping Service to your business you could offer to your clients. Hire a team to provide the services.
  • You could turn this into a business all by itself with your house cleaning clients being the starting point for this business.
  • I'm sharing this idea to get you thinking about other opportunities and income sources you can create from your house cleaning clients.

There are many ways to increase your services, clients and income. Be creative. Ask your clients what they think, but don't just take the opinions of one or two people. 

Think big and shoot for the stars!

Other Things To Know

1. It's Great For People Who Don't Want To Have To Do A Lot Of Marketing & Sales

There are a lot of people looking for a home business but the sales and marketing side scars them. Ongoing service based businesses (where you get a client and you service them for years) are a great solution for these people. That's because once you've filled your calendar you're done doing the sales and marketing.

With house cleaning if you're cleaning their house every 2 weeks and you only want to work 30 hours a week and you spend 1 hour cleaning in each clients house, to fill your schedule you would need 120 clients. If you spend 2 hours for each cleaning then you only need 60 clients.

The reality is you'll have some clients with bigger houses where you're cleaning more rooms where you'll spend 2 or more hours each cleaning in their house and other clients where you only spend 1 hour.

You also need to plan for the "deep cleaning" that's needed with new clients which will take more time than just doing the maintenance upkeep cleaning.

On top of all of this, the more services you offer each client the more time you'll spend at their home and the less clients you'll need to get your 30 hours of work each week, or however hours you want to work each week.

Don't forget to plan in 'drive time' from one clients house to the next clients house.

2. It's Low Cost To Get Started

The other thing appealing about the house cleaning business is the low cost to get started. Your core expenses will be purchasing your cleaning supplies. Yes, you need to provide your own supplies.

My friend who cleans houses recommends these two things...

• Absolutely make sure you get a really good vacuum. After going through a lot of vacuums he swears by this specific Shark vacuum... Shark NV356E 31 Navigator Lift-Away Professional Upright Vacuum with Swivel Steering, HEPA Filter, XL Dust Cup, Pet Power, Dusting Brush, and Crevice Tool, Perfect for Pet Hair, White/Silver.
• There will be some clients who don't want harsh chemicals like bleach used so you'll need cleaning materials for these people.

A website is optional with this business. However, as you grow and depending on your growth plans and your business model you may want to have one.

Upfront you could get started with just a social media page for your business.

Check out the course, "House Cleaning University" and grab it before Lilian rightfully increases the price because $45 for this course with everything you're going to learn is a steal!