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USA TODAY
These People Make House Calls and Business is Good
Monday, January 17, 2005
By Stephanie Armour
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As time becomes an increasingly precious commodity, a number of businesses are going mobile - taking their services on the road to make house calls. In-home service providers will do just about anything: fix a computer problem, string up Christmas lights, X-ray a foot or sharpen rusty garden tools.
Consider one growing service: companies that provide residential holiday decorating. In Omaha, Creative Decorating festoons lights and other holiday displays at several hundred homes and business each holiday season. This year, they put up one million lights.
Cost runs $1,800 and up for the exterior of a home, and the prices include a one-time outlay for such equipment as lights. They also come and remove all displays at the end of the season.
“Business is growing, it’s out of control, we literally have to turn business away.” owner Brad Finkle says. “People see what their neighbors are doing and say, ‘We better hire somebody’. They’re trying to keep up with the Joneses.”
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