Parking Lot Cleaning
I'm looking to start a small business to supplement my income. I recently learned about cleaning commercial parking lots (removing litter by hand). Does anyone do property management? Is there is a need for this service? If so, what type of properties would utilize this service and how much would you pay someone to do this?
[{"id": "cj31szp", "text": "I imagine you will grt a better response going straight to pm companies in your area, mostly retail as apartments will have a maintenance guy.\n\nIm not in pm and cant answer directly", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "cj33n9c", "text": "It depends on the size of the parking lot.  But yes, typically if you have a large/busy lot you will need someone to clean it.  There are janitorial companies or even specialized parking lot sweeping (like a street sweeping truck) vendors out there that can provide quotes.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "cj3in24", "text": "I am in the maintenance dept. for a commercial realty company, and I can say that these services are definitely needed.  They call these types of services day porting.  We typically use a company called Whirlwind.  http://www.whirlwindservices.com/services.html  You can take a look at their website to see what they offer.  The one thing I would say that could make you competitive with an all encompassing company like this would be good pricing.  These big commercial companies charge quite a bit for these types of services. From my understanding they are on a monthly retainer.  Unfortunately, the actual property manager is the one that deals with the contract pricing, so I do not know how much they charge.  /u/rugger62 has the right idea though, the only way you will get the attention of property managers as a small startup is by going directly to them and undercutting prices on whoever they currently use.  I would target companies that manage retail and office properties, as most apartment complexes do have personnel already taking care of trash etc.  Also, in the case of my company, each property manager hires their own contractors, so it wouldn't hurt to talk to everybody that will listen to you.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]