Cleaning Your Rental for Optimum Rentability

Rent-ready is the term we use in the property management business.  It means the property is ready for occupancy, but not deep cleaned.  You can deep clean it if you wish, but the new tenant is not expected to deep clean it when finished.  On more expensive homes, the level of cleanliness is higher than an expensive rental.  But, it doesn't have to be that way.

Owners can hire us to clean and rent-ready the property at, or a little less than, the going rate for such services.  We use state-of-the-art cleaning equipment including steam cleaners, expensive carpet extracters, spot cleaners, and top-notch cleaning chemicals from janitorial supply houses.

Mini-blinds have a useful life of 3-5 years.  After that, they sun fade, warp, get too dusty, break slats, break strings, and generally look pretty bad.  The faux wood slat blinds fare a little better, but cleaning them is tricky.  Regular drapes are a serious problem.  They are expensive to clean and usually are old.  It's best not to have regular draperies in a rental property.

Cleaning window sills and window tracks is easy with our portable steam cleaners.  Window cleaning is nice to do, but costly.  Cleaning the screens is nice, and should be done every few years.

Painting inside and out must be done to keep the property looking good.  We have in-house painting for property interiors, and sub-contract exterior work.

Carpet should be professionally cleaned with every move out.  If it's not done by the tenant, then it should be done by the owner.  If the tenant has been there for a year or more, the carpet cleaning is generally paid for by the owner.  We do our own carpet cleaning at a very attractive price for our owners.

Carpet and linoleum replacement should be done every 3-7 years, depending on wear and tear.  Some tenants are very hard on carpet and linoleum, others very easy.  It's not uncommon to have to recarpet after a bad tenant, but that's pretty rare.

We can always get a written bid to you for cleaning work for your authorization.  We find that owners like to be involved in decision making and like getting proposals in advance.

If your property is squeaky clean and ready for occupancy, it will rent much faster and to a much better tenant.  So, plan on a quality cleaning job before we start showing your property!