I own a cleaning company. They are quoting around 7-8 man hours. Newly built doesn’t matter as much as how thorough and well has the place been cleaned. Given the size and the animals and the extra (organizing), and the price, I’m going to assume, either the place is really clean already or she way under charged.

I would at least double that price for a deep cleaning.

Just do one, she is just starting and neither one of those have heavy assets. She is creating paperwork just for the sake of paperwork. Also at her size most software expenses are from the minimum charge, with doing one she won’t have to double up on charges like QuickBooks and the like. If she wants different branding create the Management LLC and then do a DBA for the cleaning side doing that way she can also share assets between the sides of the business no problem. Also as you growand to keep employees you are going to want to start to offer benefits and a lot of places won’t talk to you till you have a minimum per of employees, combining them helps with that.

I would say a loan. Because if you are going to continue and growing your business you will need to keep the vehicle for while. With leasing in 3 years you are back to were you are right now.

With cash you would have to save all that cash while you should be using it to buy other equipment or anything else you business needs to expand.

Remember, growing your business will make you more money, more than the tax bill will ever be. When you level off for a bit, then look for ways to reduce cost, taxes are a cost.

Are you sure you want a truck? I run a cleaning business and use business minivans and they work great for that.

Own a cleaning business currently at 5 employees.

First things first, you must know that not everyone should be your client.

2nd thing, you do have a lot of competition but most of it are flakes and run their business terribly, if you are better than that you will grow.

3rd. Also to start up get an account on Turno that is AirBnB cleaning, right now it is slow season. You do this to supplement your income, they will mainly need cleanings on Mondays and maybe Sundays. You do not want to stay doing this as the jobs are small and you spend so much time driving. So you will phase it out after 2 years as you fill up your schedule with routine cleanings.

4rd. Get on Google MyBusiness and Google Locals and completely fill them out. Have your 1 client rate you on one of them. Once you get a few reviews you can start to use the pay for leads for Google Locals, you can before but it won’t work well. Google locals costs use around $20 or so a lead and we get around 50%, so a cost of $30 a lead.

5th, Get listed. Spend a day or two googling business registries and get your business listed with your phone number, address and website every where. You will hate your life when you do it but it is free and each one is likely nearly worthless but as a group makes your bus

6th, check out Angela Brown on youtube, you are going to be buds with her and after awhile you will get tired of voice, but keep watching or listening to her.

7th, Facebook, check out Facebook groups full of other cleaners. ZenMaids(They sell scheduling software) has a fairly active one they have inner circle as well. But their a several join them for ideas but honestly it is a lot of the blind leading the blind on all those groups.

8th. Pictures/Videos. Check out the big franchises, they spent a lot of money figure out marketing, so do the smart thing, steal their ideas. We got an insane deal for photos, videos and models that put everyone but the highest end franchises to shame, we did this year 3. This causes every listing like for My Business and Locals stand out, it also it slows the pervs from calling :| .

I own a cleaning company and have had good luck with Google Locals and referrals.