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07 Feb 2021, 6:29 pm
How big of home & how many hours work?
If it's a large home and very dirty, $150 would be incredibly cheap.
My cousin has her own home cleaning business. She is Very good and very fast. She charges $50/hr.
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17 Feb 2021, 9:51 pm
If it's a large home and very dirty, $150 would be incredibly cheap.
My cousin has her own home cleaning business. She is Very good and very fast. She charges $50/hr.
I have an apartment, one bedroom, one bathroom, my floors are soooo dusty, I have skin (psoriasis) cat hairs & other stuff.
How many square feet?
Might be a little much for a 350sf place, but an amazing price for a 800sf place.
Although, it might even be a cheap price for 350sf if it’s Very Dirty and in a location with expensive parking etc.
Depends.
Have they done the work already or are you considering hiring them? If they did it, how many hours did it take for them to do the work? If they work at a reasonably good pace and it takes ~3 hours or longer, $150 could be a great price.
Also depends on wages and costs of living in your local area. If people there earn $9/hr to do cleaning and it takes 3 hours, then $150 would be quite an expensive charge for a contractor or company to justify. Here, cleaning contractors charge $40-50/hr depending on speed and quality. Everything is insanely expensive here - housing, driving, groceries etc so people can’t run a proper business and earn a living charging $25/hr for almost anything.
But in an area where everything is super cheap and wages are very low, maybe people charge lower rates. Prices will vary from city to city within the same province or state never mind across the whole country or around the world. Depends what the going rates are where YOU live, not where I live.
You could always phone another contractor or two for additional quotes to compare them. More relevant than what we can tell you here about the places we live.
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17 Feb 2021, 10:21 pm
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21 Feb 2021, 1:37 am
I see your location is California, USA. $150 sounds like a pretty reasonable price to clean a VERY DIRTY one bedroom apartment anywhere in California. I bet if you call other cleaners for a comparison quote that they will be similarly priced.
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I found some websites on cleaning houses, they don’t charge $150
https://homeguide.com/costs/apartment-c ... %26hl%3Den
https://www.homeadvisor.com/
https://www.thumbtack.com/p/apartment-c ... %26hl%3Den
And yet none of those links say they don’t charge $150, either.
The prices listed are Typical/Standard/Average prices. You said your place is VERY DIRTY. You should expect that to take longer time and cost more money to clean than a typical, standard, or average 1 bedroom apartment. Also, the prices listed for move in/out cleans are for cleaning empty apartments with nothing in the way. Your home is occupied and full of stuff that it takes time to navigate around or move before they can clean. That takes time and time is money - the first link specified that they base their price estimates on $50/hr. If someone has visited your home to provide a quote, or seen photos, then they’ve taken into consideration how dirty it is and how much time it will take them to move about the place and it’s furniture/contents. $150 is only $15 higher than the standard top rate price of $135; so, that tells me they think your place will take them about an extra 20 minutes longer to clean than what they include in their $135 price.
You can’t expect to pay the lowest listed price of $90 for a VERY DIRTY one bedroom apartment. That’s the price to come in and clean one that gets cleaned regularly and is fairly neat and orderly and quick to move around in.
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