A cleaning business can be as simple as you cleaning one or two houses per month - to something more profitable whereby you clean apartments and homes daily. Of course, people who enjoy to clean find the most success in this business. You also must be ready to network and market your business locally.

The only real start up costs are cleaning supplies that you will need and any marketing costs. To market your business, you should consider placing ads in local newspapers and seeing if you could promote your service at local businesses. You should also have flyers or handouts to give to people you meet. You can offer a coupon on these handouts or flyers to help incentivize people to try out your cleaning business.

Often, with a cleaning business, you have to start out small with apartments and small homes and then as your business grows, you can look for commercial cleaning opportunities at places of business. A pro of a cleaning business is that if you do a good job, your clients may hire you several times a year to clean their apartment or home.

As for what to charge your clients, you can generally charge per hour or charge based on the size of the place you are cleaning.

A home cleaning business can be a fun way to earn income in a low stress business. But, of course, you must do a good cleaning job to get referrals, and you need to be effective in finding the right local places to market your business.