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Services · Unit Cleaning
Apartment Turnover Cleaning in Jacksonville, FL
Full turnover cleaning for apartment communities — appliance interiors, bathrooms, cabinets, floors, fixtures, window tracks and blinds. Priced per unit type, scheduled after paint so nothing gets undone, and handed back ready to show. Bundled with painting or booked on its own.
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Priced Per Unit
By unit type, not by the hour.
After Paint
Sequenced so nothing gets cleaned twice.
Room By Room
Documented scope, not “we’ll tidy up.”
Show-Ready
Handed back ready to tour.
Why This Goes Wrong
Most units get cleaned twice, and nobody planned it that way
Here’s how it usually happens. The cleaner is booked for Tuesday because that’s when they had a slot. The painter finishes Wednesday. Thursday morning somebody walks the unit and finds drywall dust on the window sills, a roller splatter on the range hood, and tape residue on the baseboards.
So it gets cleaned again. That’s a second invoice and a lost day — and the day is worth more than the invoice.
Clean before paint and you’ll pay for it twice. The order is repairs, then paint, then clean, then walk.
An industry benchmark for a full make-ready is 3–5 days. Most run about double that, and bad sequencing is the most common reason — cleaning before paint, paint before drywall repair, flooring before plumbing. Each one is a rework and a day.
When we do both the paint and the clean, that problem disappears — it’s one crew, one schedule, one accountable party. When we’re only doing the clean, we’ll still tell you if we’re being booked into the wrong slot.
Scope
What a turnover clean covers, room by room
“Deep clean” means whatever the vendor decides it means. Here’s ours, written down, so a re-clean argument never starts with what was supposed to be included.
Kitchen
- Inside and outside of all cabinets and drawers
- Oven interior, racks, broiler pan, and beneath the drawer
- Range top, drip pans, hood filter and vent
- Refrigerator interior including shelves, drawers, seals, and beneath and behind
- Dishwasher interior, filter, seals
- Microwave inside and out
- Countertops, backsplash, sink, faucet and drain
- Sink cabinet interior — the one everyone forgets
Bathrooms
- Tub, shower, tile and grout — soap scum and mildew removed, not covered
- Toilet including base, behind, and the seat hinges
- Vanity, mirror, medicine cabinet, drawers
- Exhaust fan cover
- Floors, baseboards and door tracks
Living Areas & Bedrooms
- Floors vacuumed, mopped or swept by surface type
- Baseboards, window sills, window tracks
- Blinds wiped, ceiling fans and light fixtures dusted
- Closet shelving and tracks
- Switch plates, outlet covers, door frames and handles
- Interior windows
Whole Unit
- Cobwebs, vents and returns
- Trash removed
- HVAC filter replaced (if supplied)
- Final walk against the checklist
We work top-down and dry-first, wet-last. Dust falls; cleaning the floor before the ceiling fan means doing the floor twice.
What Actually Gets Flagged
Kitchens and bathrooms cause almost every re-clean
Grease you can’t see until the light hits it
The hood filter, the wall behind the range, the cabinet faces above the stove. A wipe-down looks fine at 9am and reads badly on an afternoon tour. These need degreasing, not wiping.
Bathroom mildew that got covered instead of removed
Grout lines, the seal around the tub, the underside of the toilet seat hinge. In Jacksonville humidity this comes back fast if it’s cleaned rather than treated, and a prospect looks at exactly these spots.
Window tracks and blinds
Nobody thinks about them until a prospect opens the blinds. They collect everything, and they’re the most common single item on a re-clean list.
Whatever the last crew’s dust settled on
If cleaning happened before or during paint, drywall dust ends up on sills, tracks and fixture tops. This is the sequencing problem showing up as a quality complaint.
Proof, Not Promises
Recent turnover cleans, before and after
Photos go here as jobs complete — every unit gets documented, before and after.
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BEFORE — Kitchen
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AFTER — Kitchen
Kitchen
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BEFORE — Bathroom
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AFTER — Bathroom
Bathroom
Pricing
What turnover cleaning costs
Priced per unit type, agreed at the walk, and it holds for your contract.
| Per Unit | |
|---|---|
| 1BR / 1BA | $150–$185 |
| 2BR / 1–2BA | $200–$250 |
| 3BR / 2BA | $260–$320 |
Market-benchmark figures, pending confirmation at the walk.
What moves the number: unit size, how long it sat vacant, pet contamination, grease build-up, and whether blinds and appliances are in place or being replaced.
Heavy-duty cleaning — extended vacancy, pet contamination, heavy grease, post-eviction — is quoted separately because it’s genuinely different work, not a slightly longer version of the same job.
See our pricing page for the full breakdown.
Bundled With Paint
Why most clients book both
You can book cleaning on its own and plenty of clients do. But when the same crew handles paint and clean:
- The sequence is right by default — no coordinating two vendors around each other
- No double-clean — we don’t clean a unit we’re about to sand in
- One accountable party — nobody says “that was the painter’s dust”
- One invoice — per unit, per month, across every property
- One walk — the punch list gets caught once, by the people who can fix it
Add trash-out and punch-list items and it’s a single call from move-out to rent-ready.
Bundle with Unit Turn Painting or add Drywall Repair to the same visit.
Other Cleaning
What else we clean
Common Areas & Corridors
Hallways, stairwells, breezeways, laundry rooms.
Post-Construction Clean
After renovation or unit rehab.
Post-Eviction / Heavy-Duty
Extended vacancy, contamination, hoarding situations.
Pre-Inspection Cleaning
Ahead of NSPIRE, REAC or investor walks.
Questions
Turnover cleaning questions
How much does apartment turnover cleaning cost?
Typically $150–$185 for a 1BR and $200–$250 for a 2BR in this market. Size, vacancy length, pet contamination and grease build-up are what move it. Heavy-duty cleaning is quoted separately.
What’s the difference between a turnover clean and a regular clean?
A turnover clean is a full reset — inside appliances, inside cabinets, window tracks, blinds, light fixtures. A regular clean maintains a lived-in space. Turnover assumes nobody’s touched anything in months and a prospect is walking it tomorrow.
Should cleaning happen before or after painting?
After. Always. Painting generates dust and splatter, and drywall repair generates more. Clean first and you’ll pay for it twice.
How long does a turnover clean take?
Most units are a single day. Heavy-duty situations — extended vacancy, pet contamination, post-eviction — can run longer and get quoted separately.
Do you clean appliances inside?
Yes. Oven interior including racks and beneath the drawer, refrigerator interior including seals and behind, dishwasher filter and seals, microwave, and the range hood filter. That’s standard, not an add-on.
Can you handle post-eviction or hoarding situations?
Yes, quoted separately after a walk. These need trash-out first and often specialist disposal, so they’re priced as their own job.
Do you clean carpets?
We coordinate carpet cleaning as part of a turn but it’s a specialist service with its own equipment. It gets scheduled between paint and final clean.
Can we book cleaning without painting?
Yes. Priced and booked independently. Most clients bundle because sequencing one vendor is faster, but it isn’t required.
What if the unit doesn’t pass the walk?
We come back. If something on our documented scope was missed, it’s fixed at no charge — but that scope is written down specifically so the conversation is about facts rather than expectations.
Do you do common areas and clubhouses too?
Yes. Common area cleaning is available as-needed, and clubhouse janitorial as a recurring monthly service.
Get a per-unit cleaning price
Tell us the property and the unit mix. We’ll walk it at no charge and come back with a fixed price per unit type — and if you want paint bundled, one number covering both.
No charge for the walk. Ask about bundling with paint on the same visit.