Ran a window cleaning biz before to 500k. Exited years ago. Discovered the GMB subcontracing model recently and started with plumbing, but want something with more control. My profits are also lower than when i ran window cleaning so house cleaning seems like a sold choice. Any experience with the canadian market? Im in Québec so french is a moat we have. I felt its best to try here and Toronto followed by the US.

Hi should we form an LLC ,then get an office and then try to verify our GBP Or should we just try to verify GBP instantly with a random location around the service area on the map. Does instant verification lead to suspension if I have a random address after getting approved?

At this point, I assume you're probably still researching the remote cleaning business model as a whole and looking for some verification around what cleaning company owners are actually earning. You want to understand the possible income before you commit your time and money to building the business. From what I've seen and from speaking to other cleaning business owners, small owner-operated cleaning companies can do anything from around $10,000 per month to $100,000+ per month in revenue. I would say a more normal range to work towards is somewhere around $20,000 to $30,000 per month. If you're operating at around a 25% profit margin, that gives you roughly $5,000 to $7,500 per month in profit at those revenue levels. The important part for me is that this can become recurring and relatively stable income because you're building a base of weekly, bi-weekly and monthly cleaning customers rather than having to remake every sale each month. Once you've done your research, understand the model and have committed to giving it a go, I would start with getting your US LLC registered. If you're a non-US resident, I'd recommend using a relatively generic company name that isn't directly tied to one cleaning company or one location. Think of the LLC as your underlying company. You can then use trading names or Doing Business As (DBA) names for the individual cleaning brands you build underneath it. This gives you flexibility to reuse the company later or operate in different markets. For a non-US resident, getting the EIN from the IRS can take around four to six weeks, so I like getting this process started early rather than waiting until everything else is ready. While you're waiting for the LLC and EIN process, you can start researching exactly where you want to operate. For me, this is one of the most important decisions. I'm generally looking for affluent areas with enough demand for residential cleaning but where the competition isn't ridiculously high. You're looking at household income, population, home ownership, the type of families living there, cleaning-related search volume and the existing competition. There are some really interesting opportunities when you move away from simply looking at the biggest cities and start looking at affluent, growing suburbs. My own market research has shown this pattern across areas such as Holly Springs, Wake Forest, Westfield and Nolensville, where the combination of demographics and competition can be more attractive than some of the obvious large-city markets. I'll share more separately on exactly how I research these markets and the tools I use.

I want to share a quick introduction and overview of how, as a non-US resident from South Africa, I started my own cleaning company in the US while still living in South Africa. It all began when I found a Reddit post by a guy named Rohan, who explained how to essentially start a business like this. After going through the usual internet rabbit holes and a lot of back-and-forth research, I eventually got to the core message of his post. It’s like a short course on YouTube, where you learn how to do everything on your own. However, most of the content is geared toward US residents starting a cleaning business. That said, I’m now two months in and have been making a few hundred dollars in profit each month. It’s still early days, and I’m just getting started, but it really is possible. I think there are loads of lessons to be learned, and for South Africans or other non-US residents, this presents a major opportunity. Especially if you don’t earn in dollars, technology today allows us to interact and do business with people in the US, accept their credit cards, and help them get services. The currency exchange is amazing for us as South Africans. The journey has been interesting, though not without challenges. You still need to learn all the typical business skills like marketing, growing, and scaling your business. There are plenty of hurdles there. Being a non-US resident also brings some challenges, but it’s definitely possible to overcome them. For example, you can register a US company as a foreigner, get an IRS Employer Identification Number (EIN), and use that to open a US bank account. From there, you can open a Stripe account, sign up for software, accept credit card payments, and manage your business remotely using VoIP for calls, cold calling, and customer service. It’s not easy, and it’s certainly not a get-rich-quick scheme, but I’ve slowly been building this business. If you’re interested or have any questions, feel free to reach out to me. Thanks!

When people ask me why I've chosen to build a remote residential cleaning business, my answer isn't just about the money. It's about the lifestyle the business model creates. After looking at a number of different online businesses—from SEO agencies to lead generation businesses and other service-based models—I kept coming back to residential cleaning. For me, it offered the best combination of income potential, recurring revenue, and flexibility. A High-Income Business Without a Full-Time Time Commitment One of the biggest reasons I like this business model is that it has a high earning potential without demanding eight or ten hours of your day. You're not expected to spend every waking hour grinding away just to keep the business alive. Once you've built your systems and your recurring customer base, the day-to-day work becomes much more manageable. A typical day might involve one or two hours of work, replying to customer messages, coordinating with cleaners, handling bookings, and making sure everything is running smoothly. Of course, there will always be busier days and unexpected issues to deal with, but the business isn't designed around trading every hour of your time for income. That's a very different way of thinking compared to many other businesses. The Power of Recurring Revenue The biggest reason I chose residential cleaning over many other business models is the recurring nature of the income. This is one of the core reasons the model works so well. You don't have to remake the same sale every single week. You make the sale once, and if that customer books every two weeks or every month, that one sale continues generating income over a long period of time. As you continue adding new recurring customers, your monthly revenue becomes more stable because you're building on top of an existing base instead of starting from zero every month. That recurring income is what makes the business so attractive. It Gives You Time to Transition Another reason I like this business model is that it doesn't force you to make a huge life decision on day one. You don't have to quit your job, walk away from another business, or "burn the boats" and hope everything works out.