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How to Start a Home-Based Housecleaning Business, 2nd (Home-Based Business Series)

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Melinda Morse started a housecleaning business when she was in college, had $80 in the bank, needed an income, had to have flexible hours to stay in school, couldn't find a job. A friend suggested that she pick up just a few housecleaning jobs as a quick fix. She knew nothing about starting a business. In a few years she had learned a lot, probably more than she learned while getting her Ph.D.

This book starts at the beginning and talks about what's necessary to set this up as a legitimate business. It covers the legal, moral, and what I call the real rules about setting up a business. And don't kid yourself, it is a business with all the aspects of business that General Motors or IBM has. She presents a lot of sample forms in the book (If she had put these in Excell format on a web site somewhere it would be a great help.) that will help with expenses, what to do at each house, invoices, and keeping your ever present partner (if you wanted a parter or not) the IRS happy.

This book is very oriented to a house cleaning business - but house cleaning could well be considered to include janitorial, disaster clean up, etc. And the concepts she brings out are good for nearly any kind of small business. Good, well written book.

I recently read this book by Laura Jorstad and I'm new to the housecleaning business. Because I have no background in this profession, but am considering offering a service like this one in my local community, I found Jorstad's book to be a good place to start. She provides a very good Guide to Services, which seems fairly well thought out, but obviously would revisions based on the cleaning business you start. Overall, the book was easy to read and has good ideas. I think whenever you decide to go into business for yourself (any business) you should do as much reading and research as you can. Therefore, I would not limit myself to reading just this source, but consider other home-based, house cleaning businesses to get more ideas and better understand what lies ahead for you.

We found many of the tips useful when starting our housekeeping business. The author works by herself, however, and recommends as such so if you are planning to have a larger business with employees as we are then you will not find much information in that regard.

This is a great book. Very Imformative. After following some of the guidlelines set out in the book, I landed my first cleaning job in just a matter of days. Well worth the money. Take the time to read this one if you are thinking of starting your own cleaning business.

This book was so very helpful with starting my home-based house cleaning business. I new absolutely nothing about the business requirements or how to make myself a "professional" company. I was able to start up and get new clients within a month (with great help from my husband). I definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in starting their own cleaning business.

This book was extremely helpful. It really goes in depth on the topic. This is by far the best book on the subject and is loaded with helpful information.

I was pretty disappointed upon reading this book after reading such awesome reviews here. The book lacked detail and the necessary info to start a successful cleaning service. It listed information that was pretty much common sense and the rest was simply based off one of the author's personal experience. For example, it listed LLC's as being complicated and not the best idea for this type of business. Anyone who would like to cover themselves and their personal assets in the eent of a lawsuit should definitely think of forming an LLC for this business. The book also had many grammatical and spelling errors.

I don't like giving a poor review, but this is sort of basic, and there is nothing wrong with a basic book, but on cleaning?

I mean, it is a sort of basic business, its not that its hard, its that no one wants to do it - that is the success principle of the cleaning business.

I can really recommend this book on the subject, its VERY good and anyone fighting the recession will win big if they follow this one book:

Mopping Up Millions!: Making A Killing In Cleaning -

Get busy and make some money!