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Starting a Residential Cleaning Business

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Most people who start cleaning houses already know how to clean. What they don't know yet is the business underneath it. Twenty-five lessons, each a written lesson with its sources and a narrated video, walk a new owner through building a recurring house-cleaning business from a blank page. You decide what business you're in and whether the work is right for you. You get legitimate: registration, a separate business account, insurance and a bond, and clear rules for keys, codes, pets and private papers. You find your rate by starting from what you need to take home, walk a house before you quote it, and price it room by room. You find your first ten clients, keep your route tight, and put the deal in writing. On the job, you time your cleans, hold the line on extras, and protect every client's dignity. Then the money side: what each visit really paid, a tax jar, and raising prices without losing clients. You finish with your own Opening Kit, built a page at a time through the course. Every dollar figure in the course is a made-up example. Where the law and taxes come in, the course points you to the right office or professional. This course is not legal, tax or financial advice.

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Primary Outcome Most people who start cleaning houses already know how to clean. What they don't know yet is the business underneath it. Twenty-five lessons, each a written lesson with its sources and a narrated video, walk a new owner through building a recurring house-cleaning business from a blank page. You decide what business you're in and whether the work is right for you. You get legitimate: registration, a separate business account, insurance and a bond, and clear rules for keys, codes, pets and private papers. You find your rate by starting from what you need to take home, walk a house before you quote it, and price it room by room. You find your first ten clients, keep your route tight, and put the deal in writing. On the job, you time your cleans, hold the line on extras, and protect every client's dignity. Then the money side: what each visit really paid, a tax jar, and raising prices without losing clients. You finish with your own Opening Kit, built a page at a time through the course. Every dollar figure in the course is a made-up example. Where the law and taxes come in, the course points you to the right office or professional. This course is not legal, tax or financial advice.
Estimated Duration 2 hrs 20 min
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25 lessons

What You're Really Selling

3 lessons

  1. The Business Beneath the Clean House
  2. Decide What Business You're In
  3. Is This Work Right for You?

Getting Legitimate

3 lessons

  1. Registration, a Business Account, and When It Stops Being a Side Job
  2. Insurance, a Bond, and the Trust Stack
  3. Keys, Codes, Pets and Private Papers

Your Price

4 lessons

  1. Start From What You Need to Take Home
  2. The First Walkthrough
  3. Pricing a House, Room by Room
  4. Price for What You Know, Not Just the Minutes

First Clients and a Tight Route

4 lessons

  1. Your First Ten Clients
  2. Small Jobs Are Auditions
  3. Drive Time and a Tight Route
  4. The Written Deal: Booking, Deposits, Cancellations, Getting Paid

On the Job

5 lessons

  1. Timing Your Cleans
  2. One More Thing: Scope Creep and Extras
  3. Whose House Is It? When Someone Else Is Paying
  4. Dignity: No Faces, No Jokes, Ever
  5. When the House Isn't the Problem

The Money Side

3 lessons

  1. What the Visit Really Paid
  2. The Tax Jar
  3. Raising Prices Without Losing Clients

Growing, or Choosing Not To

3 lessons

  1. Help: Family, Helpers, and Your First Employee
  2. Specialty Calls: Estates, Move-Ins, Cleanouts
  3. Capstone: Your Opening Kit