Tips for working with housekeeping

Sean Spence, Better Business Bureau

Sunday January 31 ,, 2016

Coming home to a clean house is a pleasure worth it, especially if you work or a busy life. But there are risks in hiring a cleaning service.

First, please allow someone complete access to your home. If you do not know, vacuuming or laundry to do a background check, could you be exposed to your property theft or damage. There is a risk of identity theft when you leave sensitive documents that can be easily found.

If you are not there to monitor, you can not say in the situation, how long did the cleaning crew to be. Give the cleaner a list of items or parts to be cleaned, and note how you expect to do. You must agree in advance on costs. If the scale of fees is to ensure that you are the number of hours, you agree willing to pay the cleanest.

Better Business Bureau offers these tips to acquire the consumer, services or works that are a company or individual access to their homes:

• If possible, be in residence, to supervise the work. Try to schedule a time when you meet or another adult family member, friend or neighbor or workers.

• Ask for references. And contact with them

• Make sure the company bonded and insured to damaged, stolen or broken items to protect. Ask. The company if they to have to investigate a possible burglary methods

• Do you have a cleaning company when the staff working directly for the company or if the work outsourced. Ask if staff are background checks.

• Make sure the company has to protect a workers' compensation insurance against accidents in the home.

• A message box external configuration, it may be better to give a key to your home business.

• Although "avoid duplication" a key temple, is not infallible, they may consider a locksmith twice before copying to induce.

• Make sure valuables are safe, locked to remove the temptation out of sight or in a safety deposit box or a drawer. Take a quick inventory of his residence as soon as possible, after a worker had access to your house.

• Contact the Better Business Bureau BBB Business Review in www.midmobbb.org or 573-886-8965.

Sean Spence is the Regional Director of the Mid-Missouri Better Business Bureau.

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