Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: md_cleaning on May 10, 2008, 04:07:02 pm
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I want to wright to all the local letting agents in and around Harrogate, but not much of a letter wrighter, so was wondering if anybody had any old letters they had used that I could get some ideas from. I did some a couple of years ago but got no response.
Dave
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Dave
Whose name will you be putting on the letter, dear occupier.
Len
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Len
Letting Agents are no normally occupiers! :-\
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My point exactly! Dear manager ;D
Len
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How about
Dear (insert the name of the person you bothered to find out was the decision maker) ;)
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Mike
Care too much info could be detrimental ;)
Len
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A tip given to me, was to find out the decision makers name ( as mentioned) and to address the envelope in handwriting. It will more likely get read apparently.
Steve
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You do not just do it once as they already have cleaners so you need to plug away.
Why not also go and introduce yourself.?
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my letter would go like this
dear letting agent
please dont ring me as im too dear for you, i do a real clean, and i will charge mega money for carpets that should of been binned years ago and i do have many other custmors and you do not own me
thanks 1st clean
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;D ;D ;D
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With LA's you have to go in consistently, every 4 weeks and you have to do it in person, although i nmust warn you it is very quiet on the lA front right now, not many people are moving around.
Regards
Martin 8)
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Susan
I reckon that just might work. ;D
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Susan
I reckon that just might work. ;D
well if you have ever had dealings with l.a. then ull understand where i am comeing from i hate them and always knock them back i would rather go on the dole then work for them again
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Hmmm
On the dole with just enough to exist, or turn over £35,000 + working for LA's
oooh, 'toughie'
Regards
Martin 8)
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Acoording to the Daily Mail most are on far more than that, too busy watching Jeremy Kyle and breeding more wasters.
And those on the dole can get even more. ;D
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I want to wright to all the local letting agents in and around Harrogate, but not much of a letter wrighter, so was wondering if anybody had any old letters they had used that I could get some ideas from. I did some a couple of years ago but got no response.
Dave
Hi Dave, check your email ;) Just change it to suit your needs.
As someone already said you've got to keep at LA's to get there work, i send letters out every 2-3 months. Persistance pays off
Arthur
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Dave, have you got another email?I sent the email to the one in your profile and it bounced back
Arthur
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Hmmm
On the dole with just enough to exist, or turn over £35,000 + working for LA's
oooh, 'toughie'
Regards
Martin 8)
35 k and up ? then you take running costs and tax off the top
now if you play the game with the dole you will get over 12k a year in your hand ! with out any bills apart form ele and gas the dole play the rest and they dont even have to get out of bed in a morning !
the peolpe we work for on the dole are far from skint with there new cars top end t.v.s and game boys they alway have top end mobils and two hoildays ayear ! if that haveing north i would have that for no work thank you very much
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In a L/A office you might have 1 or you might have 20 " decision makers " from a 17 year old to the Business owner.
If you REALLY want that kind of work, you will find them " price conscious " and will often all you at 10 am and expect you to be available to do a clean for them, which they forgot about.
Unless you are very lucky, you will find, on most occasions, their " cleaners " have failed to vacuum although you've been told, the cleaners have been in. Another point worth mentioning .................there is often a lack of Hot water and occasionally no Power !!!!!!!!!!!!
On a positive note, it can provide a steady drip, throughout the year.
I never approached L/A's but have half a dozen who use me.
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The dole must be different up here in Scotland my mates on it and gets £110 a fortnight.
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My Son,
Was on about £50 a week was given a hard time and did not get all his rent paid.
They took weeks to make a decision if to pay him or not.
Its Ok now folks he is in gainful employment as a Scientific Software tester.
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because they dont know how to play the game i found out that if you have never had a job and been in the systerm all your life you then know how to work it with all the d.l.a and sickness stuff a grand a month is easy toget and anfd you have a few kids your made
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Very true Susan, if you know the system. we have a scumbag relative who we do not bother with, who crashed his car at 17, no licence, no insurance. Has claimed disability allowance for Ten years, due to him being on a walking stick.
Funny enough, every time we see him, no stick, and he has money to buy drugs. These people cost the govt billions of pounds, but perhaps it's us who are the stupid people.
The govt should have the balls to sort them out, but another parasite will come out of the woodwork and fight in their corner, the legal profession, fighting for their human rights.
Dave >:(
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The Government is working on it .
But must show more evidence and do more.
Sorry
Although its my other job I try to stay out of politics on here.
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Dave,agree with you 100%.
Ian,I have yet to see any evidence of the government tackling the benefit system problems,it has been left to fester for so long and is now irreparable.
If you left school at 16 and never done a days work in your life you will get the same pension as someone who has worked all their life.
I personally know people who have never worked and play the benefit game to their advantage.
The husband even gets paid to stay home and look after his own kids!!!
The government will never be able to tackle this,as it is these parasites that are voting for them.-John
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Arthur, md.cleaning@virgin.net is my email, still getting loads of spam so dont know what the problem is.
Dave
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I used to work for Lindley and Simpson North Yorkshire. Remember that your not really out to impress the letting agent its the owner of the house that will scrutinise your work, and believe me they do!!
If you dont get the carpet like brand new, the owner will get straight on to the letting agents complaining. And you are expected to reclean for nothing. failing that you don’t get paid.
They also expect work to be carried out for next to nothing.
Don’t waste your time with letting agents, get a weekend job stacking shelves at the local supermarket, you will earn more.
Concentrate on the higher class domestic market.
Peter
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Sorry, have to disagree.
After doing mainly LA's for over 4 years I have never had the problems outlined.
Sometimes the landlord doesn't even live in this country or is in another part of the UK or they have loads of properties.
It is either the LA or the inventory clerk that checks. As the tenant is not ' emotionally attached' to the properry, then they can trash it.
It is our job as the contractor to explain to the LA they might not get the desired result they are looking for.
i have one tomorrow where I will not get out the 'wear & tear' marks around the sofa and bed areas. i can improve them but they won't come out completely.
Regards
Martin 8)
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I have picked up Nine letting agents in 2 and a half years in the same area by perceverance. The best investment i ever made was a spiral binding machine for more commercial use, rather than the diy ones. I make my booklet around 4 - 6 pages with a seperate topic on each page. Another good early purchase was a programme called serif drawplus. For a cheap programme it produces stunning graphics. This incidentally can be downloaded free of charge off the net. It's an earlier version but is still as good.
My pages are front cover
page 2, Introduction to our business
page 3, What equipment we have, i.e truck mount. Explain that it does not need power in property to do work as
a lot of properties have token meters and lost keys.
Page 4, Other services performed.
Page 5, Who you have worked for.
Page 6, Contact number sheet.
The latest letting agent that we have started doing work for has recently seen a national property letting company start to use their agency, and they alone own over a 100 properties. Coupled with the other rental properties that they have comes to over 200 properties, so the letting agents are quite lucrative.
With this particular agency we offer to do the domestic cleaning as well to provide a single package. This is something that we always did for the private landlords anyway, so in this day and age you have to diversify.
Sometimes they will already have a cleaner they pay by the hour, but you never know. I have recently been approached by a large building firm that i have done carpet cleaning for, with a view to doing builders cleaning. I have never carruied out this type of work before, i.e dust removal but am sure the machine can cope.
Dave
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Arthur, md.cleaning@virgin.net is my email, still getting loads of spam so dont know what the problem is.
Dave
Dave, i've resent and it hasn't bounced back this time.
Hope it helps
Arthur
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Yep and its the English who are paying it.
Here we go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Murky
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I used to work for Lindley and Simpson North Yorkshire. Remember that your not really out to impress the letting agent its the owner of the house that will scrutinise your work, and believe me they do!!
If you dont get the carpet like brand new, the owner will get straight on to the letting agents complaining. And you are expected to reclean for nothing. failing that you don’t get paid.
They also expect work to be carried out for next to nothing.
Don’t waste your time with letting agents, get a weekend job stacking shelves at the local supermarket, you will earn more.
Concentrate on the higher class domestic market.
Peter
i always make it clear on the quote as to whether the carpet will come up well, if you dont guarantee perfection, then theres no dissapiontments.
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Yep and its the English who are paying it.
Here we go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Murky
Very interesting comment