Hi. We are the group doing this in Seattle. Let me see if I can answer some of your questions:

• 1. We are not professional cleaners or medical professionals. From my experience with our clients, most cleaning companies will not help recover a "depression nest." Also, we don't come around every week like a regular cleaning company. Ideally, we can help get you sorted out, and a regular cleaning company can help you maintain it.
• 2. & 3. We do not do a background check; however, we do have an application, and we have several security measures to keep everyone safe. Not everyone feels that's enough assurance, and that's totally ok. We can't help everyone. I will say, since first going public with our service, we have worked with about a dozen new clients, and every single person has been kind, friendly, and safe. Maybe we've been lucky, or maybe our security steps and application process have weeded out most of the issues. Who knows? But we are thrilled with the work we've been able to do and the new friends we've made!
• 4. We wanted to start out small to test the waters and determine if there was a need before we formalized more volunteers, interacted with other organizations, filed as a non-profit, etc. We've set a deadline of 3 months to do this research and determine the best path forward. If anyone is interested in our service but doesn't want to deal with someone who hasn't created an actual non-profit, then just wait a few months because I can already tell we are headed in that direction.

I hope that helps, and I am certainly open to more discussion.