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To all those interested in starting a house-cleaning business this article is for you.
Throughout this article is easy to follow step by step instructions in starting your own
house-cleaning business with starting from nothing. Before beginning with the step by step instructions it is important to mention a few things first. Starting your own business is hard work. Forget about the fantasy of being the owner so, you get to set your own hours. Starting from nothing will take 90% of your time. You also need to be sure that starting this business is something you really want and not something that you plan to fold the cards on once things start to get difficult. This is important because you will just need to be prepared that it will get difficult. Nothing worth having comes easy for anyone. To make this house-cleaning business a success you must be persistent, dedicated, hard working and motivated. Another important thing to mention is that it must be something you love to do because starting from nothing you are going to be the only employee and going to be doing a lot of houses. It is also important that you love cleaning because this will assure that you will do a great job. Cleaning the houses professional is crucial to your success. Believe that there is plenty of competition out there willing to pick up any unhappy client you clean for. One last thing, before you get started reading the step by step tips make sure you have transportation and a phone.

Step 1: Provide your own cleaning supplies. Now, starting from nothing for some of you it
might seem impossible to do because short of funds. That is fine because most of the things
you will need to get started can be purchased at Dollar General or Wal-Mart. You will need six
spray bottles, windows or mirror rags, terry rags, Murphy's wood oil, dawn dish washing liquid,
glass cleaner, bleach, mean green, pine sol, bucket to store bottles in, duffel bag to place
rags in, broom, dust pan, big vacuum and hand held vacuum. Take one chemical for one bottle to fill a quarter full then fill the rest with water. This should leave you with one bottle of mean green and water. One bottle with Murphy's oil and water and so on. Diluting your chemicals
with water helps leave no residue on bathroom fixtures or furniture. It also helps with not
going through so many chemicals in a short period of time. The diluted Murphy's oil is for
all wood furniture. The dawn dish washing liquid that is used to wash dishes we eat off of is
for safe


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