Move-out & move-in
An empty house cleaned end to end against a written checklist — inside every appliance, cabinet and closet. One number agreed before we start, scheduled against your closing date.
The checklist
This is the list a landlord, a buyer’s agent or a closing walkthrough works from. It is published here so you can hold us to it — and so you can check it against whatever else you are being quoted.
How we price and schedule it
An hourly quote on an empty house is a quote with no ceiling — and move-out cleans always take longer than anyone guesses. We price by bedroom and bathroom count after seeing the home or talking it through, so the number you agree is the number you pay.
Landlords and buyers look in specific places: inside the oven, inside cabinets, the tub grout, window tracks, and the closets. Those are where a deposit or a walkthrough is won or lost, and they are exactly what a cheap hourly clean skips when the clock runs long.
Move-out work is date-driven. Tell us the closing or handover date and we schedule backwards from it. If the date is too tight to do properly we will say so rather than take the booking and under-deliver.
If a landlord, buyer or agent flags something we missed, tell us within 48 hours and we return and fix it at no charge. That is a correction, not a discount.
Who books this
Homeowners preparing a house for closing. Tenants trying to leave nothing for a landlord to deduct against. Real estate agents who would rather hand a buyer a clean house than explain one. And property managers turning units between tenants, which we handle on a per-unit rate — see commercial cleaning for that side.
If the house was renovated before sale, the job is different again and belongs under post-construction cleaning. Staying in the area instead of moving? Most clients move to recurring house cleaning afterwards.
Questions
We quote flat by home size — bedrooms, bathrooms and square footage — rather than hourly, after seeing the property or going through it on the phone. Condition matters as much as size: a home that has been maintained costs meaningfully less than one that has not. You get the number before we start and it does not move.
Yes, ideally completely. We can work around a few remaining boxes, but every item still in the house is a surface we cannot clean under, and furniture left behind means the floors and closets cannot be finished. An empty house also cleans faster, which keeps the price down.
It removes cleaning as a reason to withhold it. We clean to what landlords and property managers actually inspect — inside appliances, inside cabinets and closets, grout, tracks and trim. We cannot do anything about wear, damage or paint, and any company promising your deposit back is promising something outside its control.
Yes, and plenty of buyers prefer it. A house is cleaner to your standard than to the last owner's after we have been through it, and it is far easier to do before your furniture arrives. Same flat pricing, same checklist.
Two weeks where you can, and more in June and July — the moving season in Bergen is genuinely busy and the good dates go first. Shorter notice is often possible, so call and ask rather than assuming.
Yes. New Jersey taxes residential cleaning at 6.625%, and any registered company must collect it. We show it as its own line rather than folding it into the quote. A quote with no tax on it is either unregistered or absorbing it silently.
Give us the address, the bedroom and bathroom count and the date, and you will have a flat number the same day. Call (201) 663-8828.
