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*Elf Hours: with the exception of Real Estate jobs, I do not allow people around me when I work. I like to work what I call 'Elf Hours': When you leave for work, your house is messy-- when you come home, it's clean. *Unless you have a lot of children and animals, you don't need weekly cleaning. Bi-weekly is usually good enough. Many only have monthly. *Occasional cleaning is great-- when you just can't stand the mess anymore or are expecting company! __________________________________ RATES: Cleaning: $25 an hour (realtors see below)plus gas if house is more than 20 minutes drive Packing/Moving: If local, less than cleaning Pet Care: Depends on days/tasks/number of pets. Driving: Depends on distance, time, passengers, etc. Basic local driving is $15 an hour plus gas and tolls (car seats not provided)...(SNOW rates are often higher depending on conditions and distance) Errands: Varies, will even do errands for trade Decluttering (with you): $20 an hour, round trip gas money and flowing coffee House Sitting (turn lights on/off, bring in paper/mail): generally $10 to $15 a day (morning and night), but ask me. ___________________________________ REAL ESTATE CLEANING: The "Elf Hours" can be suspended for Move In cleanings (when I'm cleaning up the mess from the previous owners' moving out). If their move out is close to your move in, overlap is sometimes unavoidable. Some real estate cleaning rates may go above $25 per hour (evictions when the apartment/house has been trashed, etc), please talk to me about costs. _________________________________ *Character and Professional References upon request. FYI in case you think $25 an hour is too much: $3.825 an hour goes to the IRS. Plus I buy all my own supplies. Also, I get no sick pay, and if a client decides to cancel my cleaning-- I just don't get paid. No security. So I'd be wise to tuck away a little money from each job. Please don't think I make $100 on a 4 hour house. It's closer to $60 * *

Meet Maura & her "Staff"

Left: Maura, el jeffe of Monk O'Phile, with a puppy on Honduras mission trip (most dogs in Guaimaca were scrawny street dogs, this was a rare pet)

Above Right: Tracy (raker/sweeper extraordinaire...
despite her size, amazingly strong)
playing games with teens at our church

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On Right: Maura's son Oscar (master of Pledge & Windex) at Making Strides for Breast Cancer walk. Box lifter like no other.

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Driving Services

This is "Big Ben" (as we named the Taurus) on the lot when I purchased him last November.

Allow me to drive you to work, airport, train, school, church, doctors, social visits

or your children to orthodontists, dance, sports, rehearsal or whatever they have to do that starts before you can get out of work to take them yourself

Why drive in the snow? Let me take you!
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My newest toy--
16 gallon Ridgid wet dry vac with a gutter hook!

I'm in the process of cleaning my own basement with it,
can't wait to use it in your house, too!

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Bartering Is An Option

I am willing to barter my various services.

Can you change the fluids in my car?
Teach my son to maintain my car (that he thinks is his)?

Hang my storm door? Replace my back light?
Fix my kitchen ceiling fan? Replace the plunger in my bathroom sink?

Make it so my hose doesn't squirt gallons of water at the spigot?

Found a Piano Tuner-- thanks, Beth!!

Give me an old kayak or canoe?

Think of something!

I'm tidy, but I'm not handy. All the frames on my wall are crooked!
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Gift Certificates Now Available

• Baby Shower? Have the new Mom's home cleaned while she's in the hospital
• A loved one in the hospital with an illness? All the better to get rid of all the germs before they come home
• Friends adopting a child? Welcome them to a clean home
• Birthday? Such an easy thing to wrap (and mail, too)
• Bar/Bat Mitzvah? Clean up before and after the party
• Your anniversary? C'mon, give her the gift she truly wants-- someone else to clean the bathrooms!
• Wedding Shower? Hire Monk O'Phile to clean the house the bride gets dressed at so it looks spectacular or the new couple's home while their on their honeymoon
• Hosting a shower? Why should you have to make it look nice for the event and clean up after it?

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"Guest Book"

• Are you just checking me out, wondering what Monk O'Phile is? Tell me what you think.
• Have I cleaned for you? Please, tell me how I did... be honest (just be polite, too!).
• Just a friend not hiring me but popping by to support me? Leave a note, too.

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