8A solving the problem

Chad Girnun
8A Solving the Problem

            The opportunity I am addressing is one that I have been persistent in talking about the entirety of this course. It is the fact that many students living in dorms don’t have the time or disposition to want to clean their own room. As a result, they would hire a room cleaner, but don’t have one at access.

            My solution to this problem is a cleaning service. This service would consist of others living in the same dorm cleaning the rooms of others. There are people in dorms that have a need for their room to be cleaned and others in dorms that would be willing to spare 30 minutes a day in order to make some money in cleaning someone else’s room. The reason I think this offers such a strong solution is because it eliminates the transportation costs of other cleaning services. By eliminating the issue of transporting someone to clean a room, it doesn’t make it a waste of time to only clean one room for 30 minutes. Other services may lose money on the transportation of a cleaning person going from location to location, wasting a lot of time in between each room. However, by having the person cleaning your room being someone else in your dorm, not only does it eliminate cost in terms of transportation, but it eliminates cost in terms of time going from location to location since the cleaner is only moving throughout a small dorm. This concept could be applied to apartment complexes and other universities. This program would pair people willing to clean dorms with others needing their dorm cleaned.

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  1. UnknownSeptember 24, 2018 at 2:27 PM

    I definitely agree with the idea that having someone within your own dorm to clean your room would be the best method, as no one is required to travel (which would increase the cost). I am wondering what price point you think you could sell this service at, and what people would be willing to pay for such a service. I know a lot of people who are too lazy to clean their room, but a lot of it stems from not having that much of a desire to have their room clean in the first place. I am not sure how much these people would pay for someone else to do it. But I also know people who would definitely use this service, and really just don't have the time to clean their rooms. I think this idea has a lot of potential!

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