Business Plans
Residential Cleaning Business Startup Plan & Workbook
A complete, fill-in business plan for a residential cleaning business — written for the person who can already clean a house and has never run a company.
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Startup plan workbooks for the trades
Great at the work.
Drowning in
the business.
A $14.99 plan-workbook for your trade. Thirteen chapters, already written, with every figure sourced.
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PDF ebook or paperbackOne-time purchaseNo course upsell
40Trades covered,
English + Spanish
English + Spanish
13Chapters in
every plan
every plan
46,173Formula checks run
across the line
across the line
40Free calculators,
no sign-up
no sign-up
The people selling you a trade business charge $997 for a course behind a sales call, or hand you a blank template.
A WorkbookBarn plan is $14.99 and arrives written: thirteen chapters you fill in, a licensing table for your state, startup costs with the source named beside each figure, and a 90-day runway to your first paying job.
Starting a service business should not require a $997 course.
Business plans
Pick your trade. The plan is written.
One book per trade: cleaning, pressure washing, lawn care, HVAC and thirty-six more. Each covers what to charge, which licenses your state requires, and what the equipment costs. $14.99 as a PDF ebook, $17.99 in paperback, with a free Excel companion kit either way.
Business Plans
Landscape Installation Business Startup Plan & Workbook
You already know how to cut the bed line, set the base and roll the sod. This book is the other half of the job — the half that decides whether you own a business or just a very tired truck.
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Junk Removal Business Startup Plan & Workbook
You already know how to load a trailer. This is the other half — the business that pays you for it.
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Lawn Care Business Startup Plan & Workbook
You already know how to cut grass. That was never the problem. The problem is the part nobody taught you: what to charge, how to get the phone to ring, which piece of paper the state actually wants, and how to build a route tight enough that drive time stops eating your day. This is a working business plan for a one-truck lawn care company, written to be filled in.
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Handyman Business Startup Plan & Workbook
You already know how to fix the thing. This book is the other half of the job — the half that decides whether you have a business or a very busy weekend.
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Pressure Washing Business Startup Plan & Workbook
You already know how to make concrete look like concrete again. This workbook is the other half — the business.
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HVAC Business Startup Plan & Workbook
You can diagnose a system in the dark. You have never written a business plan, priced a job off a cost sheet, or asked a homeowner for a signature at their own kitchen table. This workbook is the other half of the job.
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Painting Business Startup Plan & Workbook
You already know how to paint. That was never the problem. The problem is the part nobody taught you: what to charge, what to say when she mentions her brother-in-law, whether you need a license, what insurance actually costs, and how to keep the calendar full in February.
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Before you spend a dollar
Use the free tools first.
Every plan has a free companion kit, an Excel financial model and printable worksheets. Every tracker workbook has a free browser calculator that runs the same formulas, generated from the same file. Nothing to download, no email required, and what you type stays in your browser.
1031 Exchange Timeline & Identification Tracker
The clock is the product. Miss 45 days and the exchange is over.
Open calculator →free12-Month Contact Cadence Planner
Price the cadence before you promise it. Most plans fail on hours, not intent.
Open calculator →free90-Day Prospecting Planner
The goal, divided by your real conversion rate, into today.
Open calculator →freeAgent Production Planner
Work backwards from the income goal to the conversations this week.
Open calculator →freeAnnual Agent Business Plan
What each lead source actually returns, and what you can afford to spend.
Open calculator →freeStraight answers
The questions everyone starting out asks.
Direct answers, with the source named wherever there is a figure, and no course to buy at the end of them.
What should I charge to clean a house?
Published 2026 per-visit and hourly ranges, and how to set yours.
Read the answer →freeWhat actually works to get your first 5–10 customers?
The zero-budget channels that produce the first jobs.
Read the answer →freeDo I need an LLC to start?
What an LLC does and does not do, and what matters more in week one.
Read the answer →freeI'm good at the work but bad at the business
The honest fix: a plan, prices and paperwork that fit in one workbook.
Read the answer →freeHow much does it cost to start a cleaning business?
A sourced startup range, and the lean version under $1,000.
Read the answer →freeWhat should I charge for pressure washing?
Per-job and hourly ranges from published 2026 guides.
Read the answer →freeBusiness is slow. What is everyone doing to get customers?
Seasonality is measurable. What to do in the trough months.
Read the answer →free¿Cuánto cobrar por limpiar una casa?
Tarifas publicadas 2026 por visita y por hora, y cómo fijar la tuya.
Read the answer →freeEn español
Los 40 planes también existen en español.
El mismo plan de 13 capítulos, la misma tabla de licencias y el mismo kit de Excel gratuito, escritos en español para tu oficio.
The rest of the barn
Trackers, checklists and planners.
The barn started as spreadsheet workbooks: money trackers, SOPs, deal analyzers, agent planners. Each one opens with realistic figures already in place, every formula tested before it was listed. They are still here, still proved.
Operations
Checklists & SOPs
Standard procedures, onboarding, startup checklists, weekly reviews, task tracking. The systems a business is meant to have written down.
6workbooksBrowse →
Agents
For Agents
Prospecting, pipeline, listings, contract-to-close, business planning and licence tracking. Written by a working REALTOR® for other agents.
15workbooksBrowse →
Property
Real Estate
Deal analysis for rentals — cap rate, DSCR, cash-on-cash, break-even rent. Written by a working agent, not adapted from a generic template.
8workbooksBrowse →
Trades
Contractors
Bids, settlements, crew rate cards, commission on margin, markup and break-even. Built by someone who runs a roofing company.
10workbooksBrowse →
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What everything here has to pass.
- Every figure names its source. Startup costs, licensing fees and price ranges in the plan workbooks cite the published source they came from. Nothing on this site is an invented statistic.
- Proved before release. Spreadsheet workbooks are opened in a calculation engine, rebuilt, and every headline figure is compared to a number worked out independently. One disagreement stops the release.
- Opens in free software. The books are ordinary PDFs; the workbooks open in free Google Sheets, and in Excel if that is what you keep.
- One purchase, permanently. No account, no renewal, no coaching call, and no upsell waiting inside the file.
- Connected to nothing. You enter the figures yourself. There are no credentials to surrender and no service that can lose them.
- Arrives working. Realistic figures are already in place. You watch it calculate before you trust it with your own.
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