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Project pricing for organizers, stagers, and life-admin pros. 9 free calculators, no signup.

Pricing home organizing & life work honestly

Organizing and home-life services sell transformation, which is hard to price by the hour and dangerous to price by the room. These tools build project quotes from the real inputs: consults, shopping time, supplies, disposal, and the slowdown factor that comes with emotional jobs like senior moves and estate sales.

Pricing rules that protect your margin

  • Free consults are a cost center. Either price them into projects or charge a consult fee that credits toward booking.
  • Shopping and sourcing are billable hours at your full rate, plus a stated markup or handling line on products.
  • Senior moves and estates run slower by nature. A slowdown multiplier in the quote is professionalism, not padding.
  • Staging math includes furniture carrying cost: storage, damage, and the months a piece earns nothing between homes.

Questions, answered

How do estate sales make money?
Commission on gross sales minus labor, advertising, and disposal, with a break-even estate value below which the job loses money. The estate check finds that line.
How should a move manager quote?
Flat fee built from estimated hours times a realistic slowdown factor, plus packing and coordination time. The move manager tools compare both approaches.

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