I'll try to keep it short and sweet. My wife and I both work full time, we live in a condo and have an HOA so we don't even do yard work. We made just over 100k combined income the last 2 years. We're finishing up crushing the PMI on our mortgage. We've made the extra payments every month for the last 2.5 years. We're tired after work. We don't want to vacuum twice a week etc. We have two cats so most of this is about cat hair. It sucks to work all day and then come home and not be able to just relax and enjoy that sweet small time before you are required back at work.
The cheapest thing is just to suck it up. Maybe get more physically fit so i have more energy and tackle chores head on. But I'm wondering the cost effectiveness of hiring a maid. Or even offering extremely cheap rent for a live-in house keeper.
The condo is tri-level 3 bedrooms 2 full bathrooms, 2 half bathrooms, washer and dryer, lots of storage space and only the top floor has carpeting. The rest is linoleum and bamboo. Still I don't want to vacuum, sweep, mop and wipe down the kitchen and bathrooms on a regular basis. I'm a gross manboy and subconsciously I think that kind of deep cleaning is supposed to happen a few times a year. Most people probably want that done what, twice a month?
So I don't even really know what's fair to pay. What a maid would charge or what is too much or too little. Average rent in my area is 1555/month and I'd rent out my nicest guest room for $300/mo if they took care of the place. Or just pay someone $100 to go to town on it? If I just did that every 2 weeks it would still cost me $2,400 a year...
Submitted July 18, 2022 at 10:29PM by Abrin36 https://ift.tt/oUMyBIO
