Move In/Move Out Cleaning Recommendation?

Who have people used to get house cleaned prior to moving in, and just after moving out? And what can I expect, price-wise?

(I am moving in less than a month, and, due to the rather accelerated timeline, have not lined anything up for anything. There was a ton of helpful advice in my other thread, so I am putting another one out there and will likely have many more.)

TIA!

Clean World , Sandra, I don't know her pricing, but I know several realtors who use her for this type of in-depth one time cleaning.
http://www.cleanworldcompany.com/

I'm using someone next week and happy to report back after.

I'll look into Clean World, @crazy_quilter, and that would be great, @eliz.

Thanks!!!

Clean World is wonderful. More for making house look great when on market than for leaving broom clean for closing day buyers though.I would certainly use if I were moving into a place and wanted to be sure it was really clean.

do you know if they do homes bi-weekly?

@eliz, you are moving now too? Waaah!

ess said:

And what can I expect, price-wise?

We paid $200 to have our place cleaned when we moved in. It was far from broom swept. Previous owners left it filthy. The house is about 3000 square feet. 5brs 4bth.

@GGartrell - Thanks, and who did you use? That price sounds reasonable. The house we're moving into has 5BR as well, and three floors, although I am not sure of the square footage. My current house is much smaller. This is a good starting point as far as expectations go.

Our house was filthy when tenants moved out. Things like tile grout in kitchen which was light tan was actually black. Bird fecal matter all over the dining room walls and floors. So, it was in bad shape. Can't remember who we used but it was more in the $500-600 range. Probably depends on how dirty it is. Our house was 5-6 bedrooms over 3 floors and around 3000 Sq ft.

We have had great experiences with Thumm's Up Cleaning and Scrub Systems.

I used Scrub, they did a great job but never showed up on time so I had to stop using them.

Anyone else use Thumm's Up or Clean World for bi-weekly house cleaning?

ess said:

@GGartrell - Thanks, and who did you use? That price sounds reasonable. The house we're moving into has 5BR as well, and three floors, although I am not sure of the square footage. My current house is much smaller. This is a good starting point as far as expectations go.

We used an independent lady. I'll get the name and number from my wife tonight. We also used her for our regular weekly cleaning for around three months but went back to our old cleaning lady when she agreed to travel to our new house.

We are also looking for this service and the company I initially went to wanted $1000. @GGartrell - It would be awesome if you could forward the details for the $200 job. We are about 1650 sqft so I was darned if I was paying someone 60c a sqft to clean the place.

I spoke with her and she said it was fine to post her number:

Rosa her number is 917 797 1739.

GGartrell, I know you are sharing a person's name and number for her benefit, so she'll potentially find more customers. But I think that in light of the fact that she's an individual rather than a business, it would be best to give it to people who private message you, unless you have her permission to put it on our public message board. She might not mind, but she might especially since her business involves going into strangers' houses. Sorry, I'm a worrywart.

@jensen - That is ridiculous! A few years ago, I had a major housecleaning done. It would up costing (huge surprise, really) $450. My current house is tiny and it was just absurd; $1,000 is so far beyond acceptable that it's offensive.

@GGartrell - Thank you for the info. Not terribly worried about pink VWs or perishables or breakables or whatever, since I am looking at a pre-move cleaning (the house we're moving into is virtually empty) and a post-move cleaning (when everything I care about will be out of the house).

Thank you for the details. I told the company who quoted me $1000 to jog on.

We have nothing of value in our house. If she broke the TV Mr J would probably give her a bonus. He rues the day he agreed to only upgrade to a flat screen once his old television broke. 7 years later and the TV is still going strong!

I have a friend who use to have a cleaning service. I will see if she is interested. If so will pm u the information.

uh, just a reminder:

THE MAIDS? Nooooooooooooooo....

Don't. Even. Think. About. It

I'd probably get a regular cleaning person for the move out cleaning - hopefully the landlord is painting etc and the new tenant is likely to clean as well.

Given a bunch of factors, I need something beyond my regular cleaning person - including spackling of a gash in the wall caused by a regular cleaning person.

I would never hire The Maids.

ETA: @eliz - The house is going to be sold.

lisat said:

GGartrell, I know you are sharing a person's name and number for her benefit, so she'll potentially find more customers. But I think that in light of the fact that she's an individual rather than a business, it would be best to give it to people who private message you, unless you have her permission to put it on our public message board. She might not mind, but she might especially since her business involves going into strangers' houses. Sorry, I'm a worrywart.

@lisat You may be right. I removed it assuming everyone who needed it got it. We found her advertised in an open forum though so I doubt its an issue.

jensen said:

Thank you for the details. I told the company who quoted me $1000 to jog on.

We have nothing of value in our house. If she broke the TV Mr J would probably give her a bonus. He rues the day he agreed to only upgrade to a flat screen once his old television broke. 7 years later and the TV is still going strong!

It would be bad if something were broken or stolen but I was talking more about slip and fall.

$200 seems extremely low to me. We had Scrub Systems do a deep clean recently and it was a lot more. I guess it depends whether you're looking for a surface clean or a really down-and-dirty scrub (ceiling fan blades, baseboards, hard water stain removal, etc).

TarheelsInNj said:

$200 seems extremely low to me. We had Scrub Systems do a deep clean recently and it was a lot more. I guess it depends whether you're looking for a surface clean or a really down-and-dirty scrub (ceiling fan blades, baseboards, hard water stain removal, etc).

Agree.

Wanted to come back and share that Rosa did a great job. Rose and another lady were at the house for 5 hours and scrubbed the place from top to bottom. Mr Jensen is extremely appreciative that he didn't spend the whole weekend cleaning, as am I.

jensen said:

Wanted to come back and share that Rosa did a great job. Rose and another lady were at the house for 5 hours and scrubbed the place from top to bottom. Mr Jensen is extremely appreciative that he didn't spend the whole weekend cleaning, as am I.

Who is Rose? Share share please! (PM me) :-D

jensen said:

Wanted to come back and share that Rosa did a great job. Rose and another lady were at the house for 5 hours and scrubbed the place from top to bottom. Mr Jensen is extremely appreciative that he didn't spend the whole weekend cleaning, as am I.

I'm really glad she worked out for you. There are still people out there willing to do an honest days work for a fair wage.

I PM'd you mumstheword. Now all we need is a buyer for our house.... Anyone want a lovely, sparkling clean 4bed + office house in south orange 10min walk from the train station.... for $395k. If so PM me!