How to Hire a Housecleaner

Video Transcript

"My name's Ryan Parker with Parker Home Renovations in New Braunfels, Texas and today I'm going to teach you how to hire a house cleaner. If your house is dirty and you don't have time to clean it, you may have to contact a house cleaner. Now what you want to decide is whether you want to go with an actual company or if you want to go with individual. If you go with a company, it'll save you a little bit of legwork and they usually have insurance that will cover them if they do anything to your home accidentally. Now, the individual usually will not have any kind of insurance, sometimes they do, but usually they won't. So that will make you liable for anything that they break around the house by accident. So what you'll have to do is you'll go and you'll look in the phone book and you'll look for house cleaners in your area. Make a list of names, maybe four or five names, of different house cleaners, give them a call, and you'll want to get references from them. Contact the references and ask the references how they do at their jobs, what kind of work they do. Do they clean well? Are they real neat? Have they had any trouble with them breaking anything, taking anything? Anything like that, you'll want to know this. Once you narrow it down to a few names, you'll want to meet with that house cleaner. Once you meet with that house cleaner, you can get a better feel of what type of work they'll do or find the one you feel the most comfortable with. Once you find a good house cleaner, you'll want to sign a contract with them, something like this, stating basically the amount they'll charge, whether they charge per hour or whether they charge per job, the scope of work, what exactly they're supposed to do on your job, whether they're just supposed to make the bed, just supposed to clean the windows, supposed to do everything. Whatever, and then you want to have a time frame on there, so you'll want to have a time frame for them to come. When are they going to be there everyday? When they're going to leave everyday, stuff like that."