[Broncogirl89]

Hello,me and my partner really need some help with bidding a 10 building complex for a weekly cleaning of their apartments. We have several residentials where we charge per the house and not per hour along with a company account cleaning their houses they rent for their workers which is per place not per hour. Generally, a weekly residential is around $85 with 3 bathrooms, 4 bedrooms, and the usually dusting, vacuuming, sweep & scrub floors, along with the normal cleaning done. I think that was a low bed on my part for that one. Along with that we charge $85 for our beweeklys with 3 baths, 4 beds, & thorough cleaning. Our company account is $125 weekly per a 3 bedroom/2 bath trailer out of town, and our other houses range from 150 to 170 as they are bigger and further out of town.

We use our own cleaning supplies and equipment/mops/brooms.

I am having trouble figuring this one out though, please help.

There are 10 buildings with each 27 units.

6 one bedroom - 1 bath - 3 @ 681 sq/f and 3 @ 700 sq/f.
9 two bedroom - 2 bath - 6 @ 1,036 sq/f and 3 @ 1,033 sw/f.
12 three bedrooms - 3 bath - 9 @ 1,178 sq/f and 3 @ 1,416.

They want a weekly cleaning done, with light general cleaning such as dusting, vacuuming, bathrooms, and they want the bedding changed. They have a dryer/washer in each unit, so we will wash as we clean, but they have an extra set of bedding to be exchanged out.


So we could charge per unit, but I don't think that charging $75 or even $65 would be something they would consider. We will have to get extra help and hire 2 people at least. Working Monday through Friday we would have to do 54 apartments a day to get through all of them for the week.

It is a brand new complex.

Would charging $65 an hour be somewhere in the ballpark of something like this? I don't want to go to high or too low. We could keep doing residentials and make more money that way, however, of course we can expand with more employees and just grow. I am going towards charging a flat rate per apartment though.

Please help us get a handle on this one.