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Should You Trade or Barter Cleaning? Recession Survival Tactics - YouTube
Channel: Angela Brown Cleaning
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should you trade or barter your cleaning
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services that is a really great question
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i'm angela brown and this is ask a house
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cleaner this is a show where you get to
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ask a house cleaning question and i get
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to help you find an answer now if you
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have a question you can go to
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askahousecleaner.com
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and right there in the corner there's a
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blue button when you click on that
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button it sends your message to me right
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here at the show now natalie called in
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and she asked this question
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hi angela my name is natalie and i am a
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homeowner who just is learning from you
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of how to better care for my home and
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teach my kids to do the same
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so thank you
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my question has to do with we basically
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want to do a work study type of a thing
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to pay to let my daughter clean her
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dance studio so she can take more
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classes since we are maxed out on our
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budget we are hopefully going to start
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that in the fall and after watching your
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show i realized that really there's more
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studio than a singular class and so i
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know we need to do a walk through and
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make some kind of an agreement it's
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awkward because
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she's doing us a favor not hiring us at
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the same time we can't clean the whole
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studio for just one class that's way too
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much so
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where do i even start plus is there a
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liability issue we need to be aware of i
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mean it's just like cleaning for a
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friend um the other tricky thing is that
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the owner does not really she's sweet
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she's a wonderful teacher but doesn't
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really communicate well and pass
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information on so we have to be very
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clear from the start of what the
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expectations are so i'm just kind of at
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a loss as to what to do and was hoping
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maybe you could help thanks angela
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right natalie i love this question and i
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love that you're looking into the future
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and that you're planning this well in
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advance because this is going to happen
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this fall i also love the fact that
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you're willing to teach your kids about
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cleaning and in exchange for services
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they need or want like the dances i also
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love the fact that you're not out ruling
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out the dance classes because you said
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they're not in your budget so you're
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very resourceful you're creative it
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sounds like you're a great mom and i
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just love the path that you're on now
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you brought up some really good points
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the words that i heard from you is that
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the dance teacher is a friend you also
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mentioned that she doesn't communicate
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very well you also mentioned that you
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feel like there might be an imbalance of
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how much cleaning is involved versus the
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value of the classes i love where your
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head is with this because you're already
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putting things into place now if your
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daughter ran a cleaning service i would
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advise you against this deal for this
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reason there's going to be a huge
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imbalance really quickly with the level
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of cleaning against the value of the
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dance classes and so if this was a
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regular cleaning business i would advise
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you to go through a barter or trade
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exchange the trade or barter exchange is
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kind of like a clearing house where
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everyone adds their surplus or their
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services or their goods and then
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everybody takes out what they need so
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for sake of an argument if this were a
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business and your daughter were cleaning
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and let's say just for sake of an
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argument that it took four hours to
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clean the studio and each of those hours
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was valued at twenty five dollars each
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that would be one hundred dollars per
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cleaning that your daughter would earn
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from the job now the teacher teaching a
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dance class let's say for sake of an
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argument each of those classes is valued
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at fifty dollars and so she would put in
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her class for the day and that would be
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fifty dollars of value so what happens
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is this you both go to the clearing
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house and then your daughter earns her
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hundred dollars from the teacher who
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pays the hundred dollars for the
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cleaning and then your daughter takes
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out the hundred dollars but she pays 50
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of that back to the teacher and so the
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teacher gets paid for the service but
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then your daughter has an extra fifty
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dollars that she can use at a costume
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studio or a costume store buying
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uniforms and outfits for the dance
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classes or maybe at a hotel when she
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goes on a dance tour or a dance
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extravaganza or something right so she
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can spend those dollars somewhere else
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and so yes she's paying for the dance
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classes with the trade dollars but also
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she's getting other things because it's
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worth more money right so the clearing
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house or the barter trade exchange kind
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of creates a balance between everyone's
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accounts and so one of the things that i
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recommend is that if you're considering
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this absolutely get involved and learn
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how it works and i will leave links in
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the show notes to a couple of trade
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exchanges that i've used in the past and
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that i'm signed up with right now
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because as we go through this what we're
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calling a recession the economy is
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changing and a lot of people are going
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back to barter and trade and so knowing
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how to do it and doing it well is not
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only just a skill but it's something
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that you can use for the rest of your
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life so instead of doing a direct trade
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you're doing an indirect trade by going
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through the clearinghouse but this said
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it doesn't sound like your daughter
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actually has a cleaning business and it
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i don't know how old your daughter is so
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if she were 16 years old and she were
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maybe thinking about having her own
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cleaning business and then going through
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high school and college by paying for
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her own you know fuel and her own dance
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classes and competitions and school
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books and all that stuff i would say yes
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absolutely use this as a springboard
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have her start a business make it legal
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get her insured all that stuff your
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daughter could be 12 though i don't know
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because i don't know
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the rules are a little bit different so
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if you have a 12 year old daughter
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that's just cleaning in exchange for the
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dance classes and it is a direct trade
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you're correct in saying that there
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needs to be an agreement so i put an
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agreement
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hey i just want to bring to your
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attention and make sure that we're both
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on the same page that my 12 year old
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daughter does not have
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a professional business she is not
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licensed bonded and insured she does not
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have chemical safety training she's not
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going to be using any heavy duty
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chemicals you might even put a ph level
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on it all the products you use will be
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ph neutral and that means you're not
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going to get in trouble by spraying
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something on
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you know surfaces that it's going to eat
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through the surface or any of those
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things be very clear about what it is
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she's going to be cleaning while she's
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there will she be cleaning the windows
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and are you going to have around a
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two-story ladder or is it just that
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she's going to be sweeping and mopping
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the floors and maybe cleaning out the
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bathroom at the studio make it very
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clear about the tasks she will be
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expected to do so that your daughter is
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not surprised and that the instructor is
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not surprised because if your and your
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daughter may be excellent at
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communicating but i know a lot of kids
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are not if the teacher already is not
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you're going to be the navigator in
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between the agreement of these two
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people and at any point either of those
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two people could get disenchanted with
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the agreement the kid could go oh uh i
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just changed my mind and i don't like
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cleaning or i don't like dance now
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they're trapped into this weird contract
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right so anytime you need to have a
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clause that says at any time if this is
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not working out for anybody we can bolt
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and there are no hard feelings and we
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still stay friends because if that's in
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writing and the expectations are clear
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on both sides then it works a whole lot
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better than if you're both just kind of
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hoping and there are these covert
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contracts going on and nobody's really
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sure of what was supposed to be cleaned
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and nobody was really sure about the
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value of the lessons and all of those
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things so make sure that it's very
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crystal clear
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and that it's not going to come back to
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bite you later on in the event that
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you're being treated like a regular
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cleaning service when in fact you're not
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so
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like you said be very clear about it put
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it in writing and just say hey just so
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that there are no surprises later on we
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just wrote up this little agreement we
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just want you to look over it and then
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sign it if you have any questions please
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let us know so it can just be very
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matter-of-fact but the dance teacher
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probably also is wondering about like
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how does this work and if it's on paper
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then there are no surprises for her
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either so yes get it on paper and then
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keep me posted i want to hear how this
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goes right now as we move through this
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recessionary period there are going to
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be a lot of these types of deals that
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can be done and any time you can use a
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clearinghouse or a barter exchange it
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opens up the possibilities of all of the
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different services that you can access
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in exchange for the time or effort or
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energy or work that you're putting in
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all right i've got a couple of other
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videos that we've done on barter i'm
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going to leave links of those up here so
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you can check those out and until we
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meet again leave the world a cleaner
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place than when you found it
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