Turnovers Finished Before the Keys Change Hands

A turnover has one real deadline, and it is the day the new tenant collects keys. Everything works backward from that date. We price per unit after looking at the building and a representative apartment, so a three bedroom on the top floor of a triple decker and a one bedroom in a converted mill are not billed off the same guess. A vacant unit is priced differently from an occupied one, and the difference sits in all the places nobody cleans while somebody is living there. Oven interior, racks and door glass. The inside of the refrigerator, the shelves, the drawers and the door seals. Cabinets and drawers cleaned inside, because a new tenant opens every single one on the first walkthrough. Closet floors, shelves, rods and the tops of doors. Window sills, tracks and the storm window channels that fill with grit over a winter. Then the floors, which come last for a reason worth explaining.

That reason is paint. Almost every turnover needs at least a wall or a ceiling, and when the painter and the cleaner are two companies you get dust on a fresh clean, a scuff on a fresh wall, and two people each pointing at the other. Here the order goes on a single scope: patch and paint, then the clean, then the final walk. It also means one price and one date for both trades instead of two calendars you have to line up yourself. In buildings from before 1978 we ask about lead paint before anyone sands anything and plan the prep around the answer. Occupied buildings get their own handling, so crews park where you tell them, keep the stairwell clear, and carry debris out instead of leaving it by the bins for the neighbors to find. If a unit turns out worse than the walkthrough suggested, you get the number that day and decide before we keep going.

What the program covers

• Oven interior, racks, broiler drawer and the door glass
• Refrigerator inside, shelves, drawers and the door seals
• Cabinets and drawers cleaned inside, not just the fronts
• Closet floors, shelves, rods and the top of every door
• Bathroom tile, tub, toilet and the grout line at the floor
• Windows, sills, tracks and the storm window channels
• Floors done after the painters finish, never before
• One price per unit, tied to your key handover date