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Why Landlords should Invest in Professional Green Cleaners

If you are a landlord in today's competitive home rental market, anything you can do to enhance the appeal of your property has to be worth serious consideration. Creating a good first impression is essential, but that needn't be expensive or time-consuming. Simply changing the way your property is cleaned could make a big difference to how long it remains empty between lets.

Walk into your house or flat as if you were a prospective tenant viewing it for the first time. Take a deep breath. What do you notice? The musty atmosphere of a property that has been only superficially cleaned? A strong smell of chemical bleaches and disinfectants? Or the subtle, fresh scent of a home that has been thoroughly and carefully green cleaned? Which would impress you the most?

Post Let Cleans are Better When They're Green!

Green cleaning means eliminating dust, grime, germs and allergens without the use of harsh, polluting chemicals that are toxic to most living things - including humans. But being eco-friendly doesn't mean you have to accept a lower standard of cleanliness for your post tenancy clean. In fact, a professional green cleaning company that ensures all its staff are fully trained in the correct use of green cleaning materials and techniques can easily achieve hospital hygiene standards - including in all those nooks and crannies that conventional cleaners might overlook.

While concern for the environment might be the main reason why tenants are interested in green cleaning, increasing numbers of landlords are switching to green cleaning as they discover the benefits it can also bring to their businesses:

• Green cleaning reduces levels of allergens in a home without using irritating cleaning fluids. This makes a green cleaned property attractive to tenants with asthma and other allergies.

• Green cleaning guarantees that no surfaces have been treated with poisonous chemicals - an important factor for tenants with young children or pets.

• Green cleaning shows you care about your tenants' health and the environment.

• Green cleaning from a reputable, specialist company doesn't have to cost any more than conventional cleaning.

• Green cleaning, along with energy saving measures, allows you to advertise your property as eco-friendly.

• Green cleaning helps you to stand out from rival landlords with similar properties.

• Environmentally aware tenants who insist on green cleaning are more likely to take good care of your property.

If you want to know more about how green cleaning could help you to present your empty property to its best advantage have a chat with a local professional green cleaner who offers free, no obligation quotations on post let and landlord cleans.

Laura Carey is the director of First Class Cleaning & Maintenance Limited, a Romford-based green cleaning company offering domestic and commercial cleaning services throughout Essex and London. For more information visit http://www.essexcleaningservice.co.uk

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