house cleaning services - san antonio area

[I. Hustle]

I just got a deal from living social. Four hours of cleaning for $60. Reg price was about $250

[Wild Cobra]

I just got a deal from living social. Four hours of cleaning for $60. Reg price was about $250

They must really be hard up to only charge $15/hr.

[I. Hustle]

Living social always has deals like that. I've gotten some similar deals at other places through that site. It's just a way for businesses to promote their product.

[Bender]

They must really be hard up to only charge $15/hr.

I've never done anything with living social... don't even know what it is, but companies have always done the "loss leader" thing - to gain new customers.

[CosmicCowboy]

You pay cheap prices you get cheap service and a ty job. If you're looking for a good thorough cleaning you should be paying approx 200 bucks per 1k sqft. On a typical 2,500 sqft home we send out 3 cleaners and it takes 3-4 hours and would run you about 450.

When you pay the cheap prices you're getting a low hourly wage cleaner or in the case of a few of these companies employees that earn their paycheck off a percentage of what they bill. So its a race for volume. Which is why they do a ty job, and steal your . Our housekeepers get 15 bucks an hour and they don't look and act like crack s. The higher price allows for a better quality employee and better quality cleaning products/equipment. It also means a more comprehensive list of duties to be performed.

Damn B2B...$450? That house cleaning better come with hot french maid and a happy ending.

[JoeChalupa]

We have family "field days" and clean the house ourselves. No way I'm paying $250-450. Oh no. Is house cleaning a lost "skill"?

[Bender]

Is house cleaning a lost "skill"?

when it comes down to "should I goof off on the compuer, or clean the house?", housecleaning generally loses.

[Agloco]

We have family "field days" and clean the house ourselves. No way I'm paying $250-450. Oh no. Is house cleaning a lost "skill"?

Glad to see you have the time to do that. For some, their time is more valuable though. Lets see.....spend 8 hours cleaning the house or spend it making A) $1200 or so, B) Going on a trip/activity with the little ones?

Paying $250-450 as a down payment to get $1200 in return (or in the case of point B, doing something which I cannot put a price on)?

Um, yeah sign me up.

[cantthinkofanything]

Glad to see you have the time to do that. For some, their time is more valuable though. Lets see.....spend 8 hours cleaning the house or spend it making A) $1200 or so, B) Going on a trip/activity with the little ones?

Paying $250-450 as a down payment to get $1200 in return (or in the case of point B, doing something which I cannot put a price on)?

Um, yeah sign me up.

What about finding another "sister (no racist) family" from a nearby city and have a day where each family takes a one day cleaning trip to the other one's home.

Even better, start a business based around linking these families together and charge a fee of $1200 ($600 per family) for each Sister (no racist) Family Cleaning Travel Partnership. But as President, you get link free of charge. But the other family pays their $600. So not only would you get your house cleaned for free, you'd be paid $600 for another family to clean your house. Plus all the income from all the other links you fostered.

[JoeChalupa]

Glad to see you have the time to do that. For some, their time is more valuable though. Lets see.....spend 8 hours cleaning the house or spend it making A) $1200 or so, B) Going on a trip/activity with the little ones?

Paying $250-450 as a down payment to get $1200 in return (or in the case of point B, doing something which I cannot put a price on)?

Um, yeah sign me up.

Well, for one it doesn't take 8 hours to clean and for it ain't all about making money for us. And the fact that we do it as a family IS family time for us. Being that we have family field day on a consistent basis means we don't spend hours and hours cleaning. If you don't have time to clean your house then you need to find the time unless you enjoy living in a dirty home. I understand your point but it ain't for us.
No, I won't sign up for that.

[BacktoBasics]

Fact is a lot of people are tired of hiring a big national company to run a bunch of lazy near minimum wage workers to your house expecting them to do some kind of decent job. A lot of people can rationalize paying 350 bucks for 9 hours of solid cleaning over 150 bucks for 2 hours of a couple of losers who hate their job half ass wiping a counter in between smoke breaks.

When I started this business I never thought we'd be booking house cleanings. I just wanted to book carpet cleaning, tile work, construction cleanup, concrete polishing, handful of janitorial accounts and hoarding. Found out pretty fast that house cleaning is a lost skill. No one did it well because those who offered the service did so by hiring extremely cheap labor. So even though it only accounts for a tenth of our business its always big tickets and our employees don't hate making 15 bucks an hour or more.

The majority of those "listed" prices on Living Social or groupon are fabricated. Reason being is that the business owner ends up splitting the money with the advertiser after the discount. Groupon is a 50-50 split and they typically demand a 50% discount. So if your normal price is 300 bucks and they want you to discount 50% at 150 you'll end up with 75. So most of these people will jack up the price to say 450 or more to compensate. You're probably just better off calling the company and asking for a deal.