Cleaning Vacant and Abandoned Foreclosed Home Business Ideas

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Vacant and Abandoned Home Cleaning

Start a real estate cleanup business

Property Preservation Services

How you can be on your way to other potential money makers, business is booming for those who see the current real estate crisis as a booming opportunity, and if you are once of those that see yourself starting a cleaning foreclosed home business than here are some of the types of areas you can expand your cleaning service

Start a business as a Lawn Painter

One is with working as a lawn painter, you may be wondering how that relates to foreclosure properties well it is basically that many of the abandoned homes have deserted lawns, with the grass turning brown and for a quicker turn around for resale many property managers will like to have green grass fast.

Start a Landscaping service

Landscaping services cost more as well as takes time for the grass to grow, Starting your own grass painting service you can offer to provide along with your foreclosure cleaning business.

Start a Cleaning Pools Service

Cleaning pools is another area that you can offer your services, because many of the abandoned homes also have unattended pools that need to be drained from a pool cleaner.

Start a Trash-outs and Hauling Service

Trash outs and hauling away unwanted items left behind is another area that is in great demand that foreclosure cleaning companies provide.

Start a Boarding up and Securing Service

Boarding up and securing the home requires a locksmith and you can hire subcontractors to do this work for you foreclosed homes are in danger of being vandelized and so they need to have broken windows fixed and boarded up for safety.

REO Property Maintenance Services

Re-Secure

Under this REO asset management service, you will be required to change the locks at the property to the key code according to the regulatory requirements for the loan type, unless otherwise instructed. For loan types with no applicable regulatory guidelines, the HUD specifications, and the HUD pricing schedule, need tobe followed.

Debris Removal

This property preservation service authorizes you to remove interior, exterior or hazardous debris at the property as authorized by client request or the regulatory specifications for the loan type. If the debris for any loan type, cannot be removed for the published reimbursable fee, an estimate will need to be provided.

Lawn Maintenance

The necessary lawn maintenance to maintain the property's appearance, prevent further degradation to the grounds and relieve the property of any existing or potential violation of local ordinance. Such as with lawn cutting, mowing the lawn, weeding, edge trimming, sweeping of all paved areas in the case of sidewalks, driveways, patios, and removal of all lawn clippings, related cuttings and incidental debris.  The disposal of all clippings and incidental debris is removed in compliance with jurisdictional requirements.

Winterizations

Your job as an independent contractor will be to winterize the plumbing at the property, to prevent freeze damage, according to the regulatory requirements for the loan type and if the work cannot be completed for the applicable regulatory price, an estimate will need to be provided to complete the winterization.

Emergency Maintenance

It will be necessary to perform the necessary maintenance to maintain the property's appearance, prevent further degradation to the grounds and relieve the property of any existing or potential violation of local ordinance. As with any property preservation order, the HUD specifications, and the HUD pricing schedule, need to be followed.

Foreclosure loan modification services

As you are probably aware foreclosure loan modification services are trying to help homeowners who are facing foreclosure to not lose their homes.

most of these programs are not working and it those with subprime mortgages are also facing a hard economic mortgage crisis that will not see itself getting better anytime soon,

Fixed Rate Mortgages

Those who have fixed rate mortgages are also feeling the pinch and they are defaulting on their homes in record numbers.

For those who clean foreclosures for a living it provides them with more work than they can handle this growing cleaning business allows those who want to be self employed a way to own a business that requires little cost startup money.

The income profit level is really high and the opportunity for growth is continual for those interested in the industry of REO's

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HeyJude2 23 months ago

Wow! THis is a great list of ideas for people who are just starting out their home businesses.

We've got about 97 ideas and counting for our coaching students for people who are just starting to figure out what they can do to earn extra money from home.

But now I've got even more -- maybe up to 101 ideas!

Thanks for the tip.

I'll follow along for more good ideas.

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Research Analyst Hub Author 23 months ago

HeyJude2 thats awesome! let me know how it goes.

DAVE 17 months ago

That was really a great list of ideas. I'm always in the market to create new income streams.

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