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We’d like to welcome Tim Toler of Clean Sweep Lot Services in Indianapolis to the 1-800-SWEEPER family. Tim makes a great addition our organization and we’re glad to have him.
From starting with a broom and a wheelbarrow, Tim Toler has grown his company a long way. For eight years Tim Toler, now president of Clean Sweep Lot Service, Inc., did outside maintenance for a developer. Noticing that a store in the area wasn’t keeping its lot clean, Toler contacted the manager, who put him in contact with the management company. He not only got a contract to do that property, but nine others managed by the same firm.
For a couple years, Toler and his son continued to clean the properties by hand, all while continuing with his full-time day job. Coupled with starting to go to church on a regular basis, he says he came to the realization that there was enough money in other people’s trash to quit his regular job and go full time with sweeping.
Deciding that if he was going to have truck payments then he’d just as well have a new sweeper, Toler went out on a limb and bought a new Schwarze 347-I. After having walked lots for many years in his work for the developer, with sparing use of a Tennant sweeper — walking the soles off many pairs of shoes in the process — the overnight transition was enormous.
At first, he found himself still spending four to five hours on a property that previously took eight but now should be done in about three. Even then, one property manager simply could not be made happy. “However, I came to a realization,” Toler says, “that my time had to be worth much more than $10 an hour. That was the beginning of figuring out my actual costs and the pricing that needed to go with it.”
Toler credits his company’s growth with providing a good end product for his customer and always doing whatever he says he’ll do, period. That has brought him both growth and a high degree of customer loyalty.
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We’d like to welcome the newest 1-800-SWEEPER Partner, Mike Kirchner of Clean Sweep of Orlando. Mike is relatively new to the sweeping business. After living in Atlanta for the last twenty years his family recently moved to Winter Park Florida, a suburb of Orlando. He has been happily married for 15 years, has two children and a dog named Bob Seger after his upbringing in Michigan. Recently, he bought Clean Sweep of Orlando after spending 25 years in Corporate America. Mike grew up in an entrepreneurial home and it was always a goal of his to run and own his own business. “I wanted to spend all of my time and energy working on my customers behalf and less on the bureaucracy in corporate America”, says Kirchner. Clean Sweep of Orlando was formed in 1986 and used to be the largest Parking Lot Sweeping company in Orlando. Business has dwindled over the years and Mike’s goal is to return it to that stature once again. Clean Sweep of Orlando offers power sweeping, portering, janitorial services, pressure washing and landscape maintenance. They also perform graffiti removal, parking lot striping and pothole repair.
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Smith Property Services featured spotlight focuses on their business’s passion for quality services and business growth starting on page 20.
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PROFESSIONAL AND RELIABLE PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE SINCE 1975
Maintenance Systems of Northern OH Inc. has been a contractor for pavement maintenance service since 1975. Maintenance Systems of Northern Ohio (MSNOH) was started in 1978 by Frank Rybaarcyk Sr. In the beginning, the company focused on sweeping and maintenance of small retail shopping center parking lots.
Now owned by Robert Boehk since 2016, and run along with his son, Jacob, and daughter Lindzey, MSNOH pride themselves on providing quality service at a fair price. They are a family owned business that is customer driven. Robert is an accomplished construction attorney with over 35 years in the heavy highway construction industry. Bringing this experience to MSNOH has made the transition to running a pavement maintenance company much easier. Their longevity is a credit to their customers – people who expect quality, service and value. They not only provide sweeping but other services such as sealcoating, asphalt repair, milling and paving and overlays. Their dedicated and talented team of employees understands the present task at hand… to protect your valuable investment with a guarantee of a high quality, long lasting product, priced fairly and serviced professionally.
Today the company’s primary services center around commercial, municipal, retail and mall parking facility maintenance, including sweeping, sealing, crack sealing, signage, pavement marking, and snow removal. The company operates six large mechanical street sweepers and ten heavy-duty truck mounted vacuum sweepers. Sweepers are regularly scheduled to sweep mall and retail parking lots and to clean up developments for building contractors. They also perform regular and emergency clean-up service for local municipalities, Republic and others. MSNOH also works for many pavement contractors and developers on their commercial paving projects, providing the essential finishing touches such as pavement markings, parking bumpers and signs.
Maintenance Systems of Northern Ohio has been a 1-800-SWEEPER Partner since 2019. They are based in Elyria, OH and cover the Elyria / Cleveland / Akron areas representing area code 440. Let’s welcome them to the 1-800-SWEEPER family.
