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July 22, 2011
Do you need a maid Santa Monica?
Do you need a maid Santa Monica? Most people read this question and find themselves nodding their head in the affirmative. Everyone wants a maid. We take the pressure off you and give you an opportunity to focus on priorities in your life that have nothing to do with house cleaning. The question here though is whether or not you need a maid. Wanting is one thing; needing is something else entirely. If you’re hovering somewhere between the two, not sure where you’re at on it, perhaps we can help you make a decision. Let’s assess your needs and see if they meet your wants.
Do you work a full time job? Are you raising children? Do you find that you never seem to have enough time in your day to do everything you need to do? These are all indicators that you need a maid. For most of our clients it’s not a question of cost. Our rates are affordable enough that anyone can hire us. The decision to hire a maid comes out of the need to create more time in a busy day – either for personal activities or to focus more on their professional life. Just think – eliminate the time you spend cleaning your house and how much more could you do with your life?
Mission Maids has become one of the most successful Southern California maid services because we understand the needs of our clients. We have different packages available to make our services a better choice for people in different life circumstances. If you work sixty hours a week, maybe you need us to clean weekly. If you’re home most of the time, perhaps bi-weekly or even monthly might be a good choice. We’ll do a thorough cleaning when we’re there and you can just do surface cleaning when we’re not there. That works for a lot of our clients.
How many times have you wished for a 36 hour day? Time is the one thing they are just not making any more of. If you want to live life to the fullest and have the time you need to do what you want to do, having a maid take care of your house or apartment cleaning is a good choice. You can go back and forth with the idea in your head all that you want; you’ll eventually come to the same conclusion. Yes, you need a maid.
July 8, 2011
No Other Southern California Maid Service can Give You what we Offer
That’s a pretty bold claim, isn’t it? How exactly can we say that no other Southern California maid service can give you what we have to offer? We know it’s the truth because more and more people are coming to us everyday telling us about the problems they’re having with other maid services. If we didn’t have so much to offer, would we be growing at the rate we’re growing? Our new business that’s coming in is all from referrals. We barely have to advertise anymore. Does that tell you something about us?
What do we have to offer? Our maids have decades, not years of experience. They have worked for some of the toughest clients in one of the toughest cities on earth – Los Angeles. If you think your standards are high, you should see ours. The white glove test that you imagine house cleaning companies doing to test their employees is a reality for us. If it’s not spotless when a maid is done, that maid is all done. We’ll find someone else who is willing to put the effort in to get a home or apartment clean to our specifications. Our job is to make sure you are happy with the condition of your home.
Contact any other Los Angeles housekeeping service and ask them if they can do work on short notice. There are times when you need your house cleaned in the afternoon for a party or event that evening. We can handle a request like that. Many others cannot. Tell us you need your condo cleaned now and your house across town later this afternoon and we can accommodate. Those are the types of requests we get all the time and the reason why we’re still growing. We are able to be in multiple places at once because we have a large group of professional maids working for us.
Quantity doesn’t mean we sacrifice quality. If we did we wouldn’t stay in business long. Each of our people is thoroughly screened and bonded before putting them to work. Security is a concern for our customers and we make sure that no one feels uncomfortable letting our people in, whether you’re home or not. Diversity of services, flexibility of scheduling, top quality, and affordable prices – we have it all. Call Mission Maids today to learn more or to order maid service for your home or apartment.
June 17, 2011
Cleaning Los Angeles Homes is What We Do Best
What do you do for a living? Chances are, whatever it is, you take pride in it and consider yourself the best. That’s he way we feel about cleaning Los Angeles homes. It’s what we do best. In fact, cleaning is all that we do, so our efforts are focused on making ourselves better at it all the time. When you hire us to clean your home, apartment, or office, you are getting years of experience and knowledge that no one else out there can compete with. Our maids are selected from a pool of applicants that includes the most experienced and professional cleaners in our industry. The best work for Mission Maids.
How can we make such claims? It’s not actually us making them. Our customers tell us on a regular basis how much more satisfied they are when we do their cleaning compared to when they have others do it. That kind of feedback comes only with hard work and dedication to our trade. When we’re contracted to clean a house or apartment, we make sure that every inch of that abode is cleaned to our standards, not someone else’s. Even our clients are not as critical or demanding as we are on ourselves. It has to be that way. We have a reputation to maintain.
Most Los Angeles housekeeping services will provide you quality service, but many of them do the work they do on a part-time basis, to supplement another income or help them with child care expenses. Our maids have families to support too, but this is our full-time business. Our people are not distracted by other life issues and aren’t going to reschedule you because something “more important” came up. You, our customer, are always our top priority, and we make sure your home or apartment gets cleaned before we even think about doing anything else with our time.
Does you home need a good cleaning? Stop pretending you’re going to do it yourself at some point. Even if you do get around to doing a thorough job at some point it will be a one time only thing and it will be months, maybe years, before you do it again. Contact Mission Maids today. We’ll do the job right and we’ll continue to do it weekly, bi-weekly or monthly so you don’t have to worry about it.
June 3, 2011
Maid Service Los Angeles Professionals Need on a Weekly Basis
When you work fifty plus hours per week, try to have a social life, and take care of any household or family obligations, a little bit of help comes in handy. You really don’t have to carry the entire world on your shoulders. We can’t help you get a date or pick up your senior citizen mother, but we do offer the maid service Los Angeles professionals need on a weekly basis, for a price you can afford. Look around the house right now. Don’t you think it’s about time you called us to clean up?
Professionals have very little free time in their lives. Those who are most successful on the job are that way because they put in a lot of hours. If you’re one of them you may find yourself letting certain things in your life go, or putting them off to a later that never really comes. Is the laundry piling up? Have you washed your linens recently? You might want to do that soon or that new significant other you’re dating might just walk out the door the moment they walk in. Cleanliness impresses. Don’t buy into the whole looking like you’re single through clutter scenario. It doesn’t work.
A potential life partner isn’t going to think that it’s cute if you’re too busy to clean your house. Neither is your mom. When it comes down to it, you don’t have an excuse, even if you legitimately do. If you’re not concerned enough about the state of your apartment or condo on your own, someone else in your life will be. That’s why our Southern California maid service is so successful. It’s also why we can keep our prices down. Our services are in demand and we’re already cleaning apartments, condos, and houses in your neighborhood. You’re not a special trip, you’re our next stop.
Vacuuming and washing floors is important, not just for looks, but for your health also. Dirty rugs and greasy tiles or floorboards can harbor dangerous bacteria and disease causing pathogens. You don’t want to be subjected to those. If they don’t get you from the floor, they could float up and start circulating through the heating and air conditioning vents, making others sick. You don’t want to be the one dirty apartment amongst all the clean ones, do you? Of course not. Call us today.
January 21, 2011
Cleaning Los Angeles Homes is a Demanding Profession
There is perhaps no area of the country more difficult to work in than Southern California. The national perception of laid-back surfers and lazy days by the seashore only applies to those who don’t work for a living. If you’re trying to make ends meet in our part of the country, you’re working hard and dealing with a lot of pressure. Our business is no different. Cleaning Los Angeles homes is a demanding profession that requires us to be at the top of our game all the time. Our clients expect nothing less.
When we’re first contacted to do house or office cleaning for a new customer, we make sure that we confirm a time that is convenient for their schedule. Our people are bonded and insured, so you don’t have to be there when we clean, but if you’d prefer to be we’ll make sure we’re on time. There are three windows of time to choose from every day and special times available for one-time cleaning if you’re planning a special event or gathering. We can also come in on short notice if you need us to.
The maid service Los Angeles homeowners look for most often is one that includes a thorough cleaning to start the process and then either a weekly or bi-weekly general cleaning. Office cleaning is typically done more frequently, sometimes even daily for a larger space with more employees. Contact our office if you have questions about what your needs are. We can handle any job, large or small, and our rates are some of the most reasonable in our industry.
Los Angeles has been consistently ranked as one of the five most expensive cities to live in the United States for at least half a century now. The cost of living is high, so it’s natural for homeowners to care very deeply about their homes and possessions. The company that you hire to clean your home will have to be reliable and efficient, trustworthy, and experienced with cleaning Southern California homes. You’ll also want them to be somewhat affordable. There aren’t too many cleaning companies that fit all of those descriptions. We can only think of one – Mission Maids.
January 14, 2011
Do you need an authentic Southern California Maid Service?
Is house cleaning in Massachusetts the same as cleaning a home in Southern California? In some ways, it might be, but if you’re a native of Los Angeles or Orange County and have visited those eastern regions of the country, you know that there’s something distinctly different about where you were born and raised. Mission Maids is an authentic Southern California maid service. When our people get done cleaning your home, it will look, feel, and smell like it should, not like it belongs on the East Coast.
There are quite a few national companies in the housecleaning industry and most of them are not based here. The trainers that come in to prepare their people to clean homes and offices come from out of town, so they’re not really aware of what we need to do to get a house completely clean in our service area. Dirt is dirt, but other parts of the country don’t have the same air quality, air-born pathogens, or weather patterns that Southern California has. All of these factors need to be considered when cleaning.
Our profession isn’t just dusting and vacuuming. The cleaning service Los Angeles residents and businesses are looking for is supposed to provide sanitation and disease prevention also. Bathroom and kitchen fixtures are havens for germs and bacteria. Lower levels and cabinets where pipes are housed can contain mold, dirt and grime that have built up over time. Windows need to be washed clean using cleaners designed to cut through the chemical consistency of smog-induced stains. Those who come from other parts of the country don’t know how to do that. We do.
If you’re shopping around for a local housecleaning service, ask anyone you call where their home office is. Ours is right here in Los Angeles, and it has been since 1987. Our management staff, trainers, and all of our housecleaners live right here in Southern California and they grew up cleaning their own houses in this environment. If you want authentic Southern California housecleaning, you want Mission Maids. Just ask any of your many friends and neighbors who are already using our services.
December 24, 2010
Ensuring Security when you hire a Maid Service in Los Angeles
How do you know that the Los Angeles housekeeping services you pay for are going to be everything they’re advertised to be? There are a lot of issues that could arise and situations that could develop. There are also a number of very important questions that you need to ask before you make a decision about which cleaning service you’re going to hire. Security is a legitimate concern. How do you really know whether a Los Angeles maid service is trustworthy or not?
If you hire someone that has been in business for a number of years, there’s a good chance that they are a reliable company. In the maid service industry, those who violate the trust of their clients don’t last long. The Better Business Bureau and Chamber of Commerce keeps records of complaints filed and City Hall can tell when a company first applied for their business license. Mission Maids has been in business since 1987.
Bonding and insurance are two items you should put on your qualification checklist for a maid service in Los Angeles. If any prospective companies don’t have both, eliminate them from the list. You can also look for criminal background checks and drug testing of employees. These are additional layers of security that will eliminate any concerns of theft or vandalism when you allow someone to clean your home or business. They’re not public record like complaints and license filings, but claiming them in any contract or advertising makes the company liable in the case of any wrongdoing.
Finally, ask for some references. Make sure that they’re verifiable, legitimate residents and businesses, not relatives or friends. Those who are legitimate and have been in business for a few years, like Mission Maids, can provide you with a long list of satisfied customers. Do this in addition to the steps already suggested and you will have peace of mind with your new maid service. Take all of these steps with a few companies along with ours and we’re certain you’ll find we come up as your first choice.
