Hello fellow washers. My name is Joe and we are located in buckeye country Columbus, OH. We primarily clean houses. We are looking to expand our operation. I am seeking business’s that would have a reoccurring service. We have to always find new customers for houses because we don’t find existing customers calling back year after year. We are setup with hot water (no reclaim). What are some reoccurring job opportunities that you service?
You should be able to build a 2-3 year reoccuring customer if your targeting the right customer. I have found the 40 year old soccer mom that drives a brand new suburban and lives in a 400k house will get her house washed once a year/ two years if you email/call them annually.
Condo’s / Apartments have been great reoccurring work for us. Instead of trying to sell them on the whole pie the first year we recommend splitting it up into thirds. Example – Condo community with 100 duplexes…we do 33 every year…after three years you’ll be back to the first ones. Keeps great constant work in several different communities.
The 60 year old ladies house that you washed that hadn’t been washed in 35 years…she will be dead before she ever has you come back out. Great, wash the house…make some $$ but don’t market for these customers.
When I think of reoccurring in this industry i’m looking at a 3 year cycle… not monthly or weekly. Although there may be some people that do some commercial concrete work every month/quarterly.
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Can you elaborate on this?
It’s not worth the time unless you’re invested in the proper equipment to do them FAST and knock out a ton of them daily.
We just joined our local chamber of commerce and there’s a ton of apartment complexes and property management cos in the chamber which is beautiful because we have two apartment complexes now that we spend a full day at each month. We clean 4-5 buildings or the pool deck and patios or whatever they need cleaned. It’s the same for 8 hours no matter what. And those two days are worth $3600 a month. $1800 per complex which is about what their average rent is for one tenant.
Those two days cover all my overhead. It’s not breaking any records, but if it’s enough that if all I’m doing is regular, local apartment maintenance washes 20 days a month that’s $36k a month.
We’re getting sales packets done now. I’m going to push hard for these and government contracts over the next year or so.
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Are you verified through the V.A. or the Vets First Verification Program? If so, has it helped you get any government contracts in the past?
Not yet, but I have submitted my VFV and it takes up to 2 weeks. I’m working with a local counselor on all of it very soon. I just found her and we’re chatting via email at the moment, but my goal is one federal contract for 2018.
Hey how will the whole veteran owned thing work or once you sell?
I’d prefer to sell to another veteran via a veteran owned business publication, but if not, I’ll figure it out once I get there.
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The one thing about federal contracts is you’ll get overpaid for the job. I can see it now. You’ll put in a fair estimate for both you and them. Your local politician will then call and tell you that he’ll get them to pay you 10 times as much as long as you donate to his campaign. Six months later he will then tell you why it’s so important for you to vote yes to raise taxes.
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If they’re not libertarian I don’t vote for them anyway. I usually hang up on political phone calls, but I let them at least get through the first sentence if they’re calling on behalf of a conservative candidate. 
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I would swan dive off an overpass into oncoming traffic before I ever voted for any kind of tax increase.
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