Turnover
Move In / Move Out Cleaning
Units turned over clean between residents.
Kitchens, baths, floors and the insides of cabinets
A unit that has just been vacated tells you exactly where the last resident lived. The kitchen holds the most: grease on the range hood, crumbs in drawer corners, shelf liners stained from years of use, and the insides of cabinets that nobody wipes while they live there. The bathroom has soap film on tile and glass, a ring around the tub and mineral spots on the fixtures. Floors carry the traffic pattern from the front door to the couch.
Turnover cleaning goes after those places on purpose. Cabinets and drawers are cleaned inside and out, appliances are wiped down, bathrooms are scrubbed and sanitized, and floors are vacuumed and mopped last. Mercury does this for apartment buildings, HOAs and commercial properties in Seattle, so the unit a new resident opens is the unit they were shown.
An empty, clean apartment kitchen ready for a new resident
One turnover standard, so every new resident gets the same unit
The hard part of turnover is not the first unit, it is the twentieth. When several apartments change hands in a season, a property needs the same result in the corner unit on the top floor as in the one beside the elevator. A consistent standard means a manager does not have to walk every unit with a checklist and hope that this crew saw things the way the last crew did.
Mercury is privately owned and operated and has been cleaning Seattle properties since 2001. The crews that turn units over are the same kind of crews that handle the corridors, stairwells and shared rooms in the building, so they already know how a well kept property looks. One Google reviewer who uses Mercury at several properties says the crews are "professional and polite to residents," which matters when a turnover is happening down the hall from people who live there.
Scheduled around the lease calendar, not the other way around
Property managers do not pick move-out dates. Leases end when they end, and the next resident usually has a date of their own. Turnover cleaning has to fit into the gap between the two, which is why the scheduling is set up property by property rather than from a fixed menu.
Mercury customizes what it offers to each building. A community of condos run by an HOA board does not turn units the way a large apartment complex does, and a commercial suite changing tenants has its own list. Tell the office how your turnovers run and what the unit usually needs, and the job is quoted to match. There are no fixed rates to look up, since every quote is made on request.
To set up move in and move out cleaning for your Seattle property, call (206) 374-7777 or use the contact page, and ask for a turnover quote.
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