The Deposit Recovery Checklist: What Charlotte Landlords Search For

Five places landlords tend to check at a move-out walk-through, and how to get them clean before you hand back the keys.

Topic: Move-In & Move-Out Cleaning guides ยท Service: Move-in / move-out cleaning

Moving out of an apartment, condo or house in Charlotte is busy enough without worrying about your deposit. Most leases ask you to return the home clean, and a quick vacuum and trash run usually isn't what a landlord has in mind at the walk-through.

Five places landlords tend to check

  1. Inside the oven: spills bake onto the walls, racks and door glass over time.
  2. Baseboards: the top edge collects dust that turns into dark streaks if it's left.
  3. Inside the refrigerator: shelves, drawers and door seals.
  4. Bathroom grout and tracks: soap scum and mildew build up in shower tracks and grout lines.
  5. Window sills and tracks: dust, pollen and insects collect in the sliding channels.

How our move-out clean handles it

Our move out cleaning is done in an empty home and follows a written, room-by-room checklist that covers each of these: inside cabinets and drawers, inside the oven, refrigerator and microwave, bathrooms, baseboards and floors.

If anything on the checklist was missed, tell us within 24 hours and we'll come back and re-clean that area free of charge.

Book a clean for your own space

  • Move In & Move Out: Detailed empty-home cleaning for renters, buyers and sellers.
  • Deep Cleaning: Our most detailed clean: baseboards, trim, vents, inside appliances and built-up grime.

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