Why your home should be clean if you are selling your home.

Why you should have your home cleaned when it is on the market- Part 1

Here at Maid OK we are asked a lot if a customer's home would be sold faster if their house was cleaned when it is on the market.  Here are a few tasks you should do before you put it up for sale.

Hidden Spots

House hunters do not want to see all your "stuff" around the house.  They want to see the house itself and the condition that it is in.  People will open closets, drawers, cabinets, pantries, basically any door that the hunters can touch, they will open it.

Make the house bigger and brighter by getting the clutter out of the home.  This includes over sized sofas, too many chairs, book shelves, toys, pictures of your family, decorations, bathroom decor, and even coffee tables if you have too many.  Do this to every room to make the focus on the house, not on your stuff.  Go out and buy some boxes or containers to store these items in and keep them at bay til you get to your new home.

Storage units that will remain will need to be empty or at least well organized and cleaned so the potential buyer will be able to see how much space they will have for their items. If the storage unit is small and will be going with you to the new home, make sure that you have it locked and the buyer knows that it will be relocating with you, or if possible remove it ahead of time.

Essential Tasks

De-clutter your clothes out of the closets that you will not wear, bookshelves of all unnecessary clutter, and do not forget the garage.  If you need money for your new home, have a big garage sale!

Clean everything!!  That is where Maid OK comes in.  The house hunters will look at every nook and cranny and they will not turn a blind eye if something is out of place or not cleaned.  If the home has not been kept up, you might think about having the maids clean all the walls and then you touch them up with fresh paint.

Tile & Grout needs to look like new. If the tile & grout looks clean enough to eat off of, the buyer won't think twice about whether it is safe or not to run around barefoot in their new home. It will also assist in hiding the signs of pets if you have one that frequently has accidents.

Windows and carpets need to be perfect.  Who wants to walk into a home that they might potentially buy and the carpets have stains and it smells like dog.  Maid OK has a great package for all types of carpet that will rid of all these barriers, and the window cleaning package includes cleaning the windows inside and out including al
l the screens and tracks.

Anything that you would like to take to the new home that you do not want the potential customer to want during the buying process, you need to remove and pack away.  Potential buyers will try to get anything free for their new house.

Don't forget the outside.  If you have heard it once you have heard it twice, curb appeal!  Trim up the bushes, plant some pretty, colorful flowers, and make sure to mow the grass and edge.

 Make sure that you clean out those gutters and remove all debris and leaves. Power wash all outside concrete such as sidewalks, front and/or back patio, and the driveway. Don't forget about the siding along the house.

Now get your house on the market and check back in a few weeks to see what else we have for ya.

Cleaning For A Reason

Cleaning For A Reason

Cleaning For A Reason Week was established in 2009 to raise awareness about our organization that provides free house cleaning for women undergoing treatment for cancer.

Maid OK is honored to be working with Cleaning For A Reason by serving women with cancer. This nonprofit is very dear to our hearts.  

Since Maid OK has teamed up with them since December of 2015, we have helped 10 ladies with cleanings.  I personally have never met any of them, but I have gotten close to a few of them just talking to them over the phone.

Every time I talked to these ladies, they were and are always very appreciated with the help we are offering them.  I cannot imagine what these girls are going through, but I am happy that we can help them out in such a small way!

Sandra B.

One of the ladies that I talk with about every two weeks or so is named Sandra B.  Here is our stories: 

Sandra and I met through Facebook when I was giving away a free cleaning.  She commented on the post that she was a cancer patient and that she could really use our service.  

I try my hardest to engage with the comments on our Maid OK Facebook page, and I am glad I was able to with her.  I explained to her that if she was not the winner, Maid OK would love to help her out and I gave her my email address so we could correspond with each other privately.  

I sent her the link to sign up for Cleaning For a Reason and if she needed any help, I would help out any way possible.  She unfortunately did not win the drawing, but her and I built a relationship beyond Facebook.  

I have talked to her on the phone a few times, but she and I have a really good email relationship.  

What Sandra says about Maid OK

Here is what she had to say about Maid OK and about Cleaning For a Reason:

Maid OK has been a blessing to me!  I have been undergoing chemo for stage 4 colon cancer for about six months, and it really takes all the wind out of my sails.

The ladies at Maid OK have been coming once a month to clean, mop, sweep, dust, etc. and I have enjoyed them being in my home.  They are courteous, very friendly and do a wonderful job.

My house is so nice when they are finished.  For them to be a part of Cleaning For A Reason is such a huge hearted effort to assist people who need to concentrate on getting well and not on how clean the house is.   

For me, it means I can save my energy for the things that have become very important.  Thank you Maid OK for offering this service and for making my life easier.  And thank you to my ladies who come, they are the sweetest women, bless you all.  

Why We Do This

This is why we at Maid OK do what we do.  It is not just one person, it takes a village to make sure all this runs in a smooth motion.  

If you know anyone in need of this service, please have them reach out to Maid OK or Cleaning For A Reason.  There are several cleaning companies in the metro that also do this.  


  

Maid OK One Tip Tuesday

Residential Cleaning Service Norman | Maid OK

This Valentine’s Day, let us sweep you off your feet.

Whether you're happily married, going steady or single and ready to mingle, we can all agree on one thing:

A clean home is easy to fall in love with. 

This month, we encourage you to celebrate your home by allowing it to be the best version of itself. From our deep cleaning services to our February carpet cleaning special, we have all the resources you need for a home that's sure to impress.

Maids on a Mission

Roxana and Celsa are known by their co-workers as the miracle team. They do the homes no one else believed could be cleaned, and turn them each into a customer's dream home. Do you have stubborn soap scum and no time to tackle it? What about floors that just won't come clean? Whether Celsa is scrubbing away on your bathroom or Roxana is dusting and cleaning your floors, you can bet that they'll put their best forward and throw some extra elbow grease into the mix. 

They each hold high standards to their cleaning, ensuring your home is left just the way they'd expect their own home to be. Give our office a call today and schedule Roxana and Celsa to be your maids with a mission!

Homestead Humor

On one particular day, a customer had scheduled several maids with a mission to come out to their home. When the ladies first arrived, the customer welcomed them into the home and began showing them around. They started with the living room and worked their way through the bottom floor. When they finally reached the kitchen, the ladies saw a true brick oven built right into the wall, next to a door leading to a pantry (or so they thought).

The customer then took them through the door, which opened up to a full chef's kitchen. In one of the rooms where the girls thought would surely be a closet, revealed another powder bathroom. But this one had a door leading them on into the laundry room.

When they were shown the upstairs (which seemed normal at first), they encountered two glass mirrors measuring the width of a door. Each mirror was stretched from floor to ceiling, opening up to a hidden closet.

The girls knew that without a map of the house, someone was going to get turned around, not knowing which way to escape. So the lead team member took her paperwork and flipped it over, drawing out a map of the house. The customer, noticing what they were doing, told them not to worry and that she would provide the maids with a print out of the home's floor plan. 

There was still a little trouble since they had split into groups to finish the work in one day, but thankfully (with the customer's floor plan), all maids were accounted for.