How much do you pay your house cleaner? Do you pay them by the hour or by the task?
How was your experience with the services Amazon or your local cleaners provide you?
If you don't like hiring house cleaners or house keepers, why not? What would encourage you to hire?
Would you feel comfortable if your cleaner also serviced your neighbor?
Thank you
Think you're way better off getting a recommendation from a neighbor or friend - ideally 1 person, or a head person with a small team, instead of a commercial service. Amazon cleaning services vary HIGHLY across the country and those are all random TaskRabbit type contractors, not necessarily a professional cleaner, so you have no idea what you're getting until they show up. Amazon is also paid by the hour, so unless you're at home watching them you really have no idea if they are really cleaning all of those hours.
FWIW, can't seem to find the house cleaning section on their website - just furniture assembly contractors. Maybe they discontinued the house cleaning service
I pay my house cleaner $180 2x a month (large 1br, NYC) and she came with the previous owner's recommendation
I want to replace amazon by targeting a small geographic area. I'm trying to figure out a way to distinguish my services while allowing my employees to be contractor. I already have some ideas but I can't post anon here so....
What do you like about your cleaner? Does she do her own thing (does she let herself in)?
Amazon seems like they are out of the business, can't find it on their website. Maybe look at a Molly Maid type business model?
I like that my cleaner is the same lady every time, not a different group of twenty-somethings. She lets herself in and out while I'm at work, super trustworthy, the 1 time she broke something (questionably even her fault) she let me know immediately. Not a fan of when places have a rotating cast of characters. I also don't like when people unload the dishwasher and put stuff in random places, or "clean up" the few random objects I have lying around by putting them somewhere I can't find them...
IMO hardest part is finding good people and making sure they do a good job. Trustworthy, experienced cleaners will have their own client list, run solely on recommendations, and not want/need to partner up with someone to take x% of profits for little work. If you can both recruit good people, train them, and keep on top of their work product, you might have an in, but my biggest gripes with Molly Maid or similar is different people every time (seems like very high turnover) and an unreliable clean.
My goal is to take care of those issue. But you're right about the good ones having their own clientele list, I'm thinking of trying to attract the ones that are getting underpaid but are concerned about jumping ship. I want to put more money in their pocket and keep a constant workflow for them by limiting the amount of people I partner with. Ultimately, finding the right people will be hard, and I wouldn't have a leg to stand on offering my service without the right people, but I can't find the right people without trying people out... This has been my primary concern.
I only get paid if they get paid. This business my hypothetical business model should be scalable.
I'm going to offer my services at a premium, but just realized that these clientele might already have pre-existing cleaners/house keepers. The only way would be to find out how much these ladies or men make and see if I can beat it while still being reasonably priced.
This whole idea sounds stupid and doomed to fail, but if I find the right people I could do it. If I had deep pockets I'd try to buy out existing service workers so they leave their current patrons so that that they need to come to me for my services.
$360/month to clean a one bedroom? Wow.
Think my all of friends pay about the same, +/- a bit based on apartment size. NYC is insane
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