The Cleaning Business Starter Kit

Start, Price, and Book Your Own Cleaning Clients

Most cleaning-business advice is written by someone selling leads, franchises, or coaching. This kit is written from the other side of the door — by the publisher of the Airbnb host guides, the people who hire turnover cleaners, chase the unreliable ones, and re-book the good ones for years. It shows you exactly what hosts, landlords, realtors, and homeowners hire, pay, and re-book for — and gives you the business system to match: pricing, paperwork, scripts, and records.

Cleaning skill is not what separates booked-solid cleaners from burned-out ones. The business side is: what you charge, what you put in writing, how fast and clearly you communicate, and whether the money is tracked. This kit covers that whole side in nine chapters. Pricing tables are built from published 2026 market data (Angi, HomeGuide, and insurer pricing data, named in the book): standard cleans, deep cleans, move-out cleans priced by home size, and Airbnb turnovers priced by bedroom count — plus the per-square-foot check, the hourly-vs-flat decision, and the effective-hourly-rate math that tells you whether a job actually paid. The paperwork pack is ready to copy: a client intake form, a one-page service agreement (with an arbitration-before-lawsuit clause, flagged for a local attorney's review), a cancellation policy, and key/code handling rules. Seven copy-and-use scripts handle the messages that book jobs — first inquiry, quote, follow-up, reminder, review request, price increase, and the waitlist reply. And because the publisher's readers are hosts, the turnover chapter shows the reset system hosts inspect for: laundry first, par levels, damage reporting, and after-photos every time. No income is promised anywhere — the first chapter opens with the honest numbers, including the Bureau of Labor Statistics employee median ($17.07/hr, May 2025) and why owner income is a different, unguaranteed thing.

WHAT'S INSIDE (31 printable pages)

- Chapter 1: Is This Business for You? — the honest math, the physical realities, and the three ways people start

- Chapter 2: Set Up Right — sole proprietor vs. LLC in plain words, free EIN, local licensing, insurance and bonding explained honestly, and the starter supply list with realistic cost ranges

- Chapter 3: Pricing That Pays — published 2026 price tables for standard, deep, move-out (by home size), and Airbnb turnover cleans (by bedroom count), add-on pricing, quoting rules, minimums, and when to walk away

- Chapter 4: The Paperwork Pack — intake form, service agreement terms explained section by section, a cancellation policy with real numbers, and professional key/code handling

- Chapter 5: Scripts That Book — seven copy-and-use messages: inquiry reply, written quote, follow-ups, booking confirmation, day-before reminder, review request, price-increase note, waitlist reply

- Chapter 6: The Clean, Organized — the 10-step cleaning system, laundry-first turnovers, par levels and restocking, the quality pass, photo proof, and damage reporting

- Chapter 7: Getting Clients — channels ranked by real cost: referrals, a free Google Business Profile, hosts, realtors and property managers, neighborhood groups — plus the honest math on lead platforms

- Chapter 8: Money and Records — the three-account habit, the tax set-aside routine, quarterly estimated taxes, mileage logging at the 2026 IRS rates, and what records to keep

- Chapter 9: Grow or Stay Solo — raising prices on a schedule, using a waitlist, the first-helper decision, boundaries and solo safety

- Five printable worksheets: Pricing Worksheet · Client Intake Form · Service Agreement Template · Booking Tracker · Income & Mileage Tracker

WHO IT'S FOR

Independent house cleaners and Airbnb turnover cleaners who want their own clients instead of agency or platform work — whether you're starting this month, escaping an agency, or already cleaning and tired of being underpriced and disorganized. Also useful for hosts and landlords who want to understand what a professional cleaner should be providing.

HOW TO USE IT: Instant download after purchase. Open the PDF on any device, or print the worksheets at 100% (US Letter; A4 works too).

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