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Make-ready between tenants

Rental Property Cleaning in Frisco, TX

A vacant rental costs money every day it stands empty, so a make-ready clean is scheduled against a re-letting date rather than a preference. It also sits between two other trades most of the time. The painter has not finished; the carpet company comes Thursday. A clean booked into the wrong slot gets done twice.
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Empty rental kitchen being cleaned out between tenants, cabinets open and counters cleared

What is included

What a make-ready covers

The whole unit while it is finally empty, including every interior a tenant will open at a viewing.

The whole unit, empty

  • Inside every cabinet, drawer and closet, since they are finally reachable
  • Appliance interiors — refrigerator, oven, dishwasher filter, microwave
  • Windows inside, sills, tracks and blinds where they stay with the property
  • Baseboards, door frames, switch plates and vents throughout
  • Floors finished last, after every other trade has been through

The things that lose a letting

  • Odor, which a prospective tenant registers before they see anything
  • Bathroom grout and silicone, where a previous tenant always shows
  • Kitchen cabinet interiors, which get opened at every viewing
  • Marks at hand height on light-colored walls and door edges

What comes back to you

  • Photographs of the unit as we left it, room by room
  • A note of anything we found that is a repair rather than a clean
  • Anything left behind by the outgoing tenant, flagged before it is moved
  • An invoice to the company or the management account, not to a card at the door

Where we sit in the order

Four trades, and cleaning is the last one

Most make-readies that go wrong go wrong on sequence rather than on standards. Booking the clean into the wrong slot is the most expensive scheduling mistake in a turnover, because it is the one that gets paid for twice.
Repairs and handyman work first
Anything involving a drill, a saw or a patch generates dust and debris. Cleaning before it is done means paying for the same room twice, and there is no version of the schedule where this order changes.
Paint next
Painters produce spatter, tape residue and a fine dust when they sand. A unit painted after a clean looks worse than one painted before it, and the touch-up marks show most on surfaces that have just been polished.
Flooring after that
Carpet fitting and hard-floor installation both leave off-cuts, adhesive and grit. If carpets are being cleaned rather than replaced, that generally belongs before us too so the floors dry while we work elsewhere.
The clean last, then photographs
We are the final trade through the door, which is the only position that makes sense. Listing photographs immediately afterwards catch the property at its best, and nothing has been walked through it since.

How it runs

How a make-ready runs

Documented rather than just done, because you are usually accounting to somebody else.
  1. 01

    We ask what else is happening in the unit

    Paint, carpet, appliance swaps and handyman work all leave dust and all want to happen before us. The single most useful thing you can tell us is who else has a key and when they are finished.

  2. 02

    Documented, not just done

    You are usually accounting to somebody: an owner, a deposit scheme, a letting agent. Photographs of the finished unit cost us nothing and settle most of the conversations that come afterwards.

  3. 03

    Repairs get reported, not quietly cleaned around

    A failed seal, a soft patch under a sink, a scorched countertop. We are not a repairs contractor and will not pretend a defect is dirt. You get told while there is still time to fix it before a viewing.

Who it is for

Who books make-readies

Owners and managers turning a unit around against a re-letting date.
  • Landlords with one or two units in the area
  • Property managers running several turnovers a month
  • Owners re-letting from out of state who cannot inspect in person
  • Anyone who needs the unit photographed for a listing straight afterwards
Short-term lets instead?Several units a month?

Questions

Landlord and manager questions

All frequently asked questions

How is this different from a move-out clean?

Mostly who is buying it and what happens next. A move-out clean is booked by a departing tenant hoping to protect a deposit. A make-ready is booked by whoever owns or manages the property, and it is aimed at the next viewing rather than the last inspection, so presentation, odor and cabinet interiors matter more, and it is often scheduled around other trades.

Can you handle several units a month?

Yes, and that is a better arrangement for both sides than booking each one cold. Managers running regular turnovers get a standing arrangement, one point of contact and a scope that does not need re-explaining every time a unit comes up.

Do you clean carpets?

We vacuum thoroughly. Hot-water extraction and stain treatment are a separate trade with separate equipment, and on a make-ready it usually belongs before our visit rather than after. We will tell you which one your unit actually needs.

Can you go in while the tenant is still there?

Only with their knowledge and the notice their lease requires. Most make-readies are far better done on an empty unit anyway, The parts that matter are not reachable until the property is clear: closets, cabinets, behind the appliances.

Related services

Adjacent work

Guest turnovers on a tighter clock, tenant-booked end-of-lease cleans, and the deeper scope an unmaintained unit needs first.

Book a clean

Book a make-ready

Tell us the address, the date it needs to be viewable, and who else still has a key. The last of those three is the one that decides whether the clean lands in the right slot.

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