Cleaning Before Moving In: 4 Honest Steps to Get Right

Empty bedroom with fresh vacuum lines on the carpet and clean blinds, ready for moving in.

Yes — do your cleaning before moving in, and do it while the home is still empty. It’s the only time the oven and refrigerator interiors, the cabinets and closets, and the floor under where the furniture will go are all reachable at once — and whatever the last occupant cleaned, they cleaned for their […]

Get Your Security Deposit Back: 5 Honest Texas Rules

713 Cleaning crew member wiping the inside of an empty bathroom vanity cabinet in a vacant home before the move-out walk-through.

To get your security deposit back in Texas, leave the home clean, give your landlord a forwarding address in writing, and know they have thirty days to refund it or itemize what they kept. Cleaning is the part you control; the rest is a timeline and a definition — and the definition protects normal wear […]

Move Out Cleaning: 5 Honest Things a Walk-Through Checks

713 Cleaning crew member wiping down the open door and interior edge of a double wall oven in an empty Houston home, with the vacant dining room behind.

Move out cleaning is the top-to-bottom clean of an empty home before the keys change hands — inside the oven and the refrigerator, inside every cabinet and closet, bathrooms scrubbed down to the grout. It reaches further than a deep clean, because for once nothing is in the way. I’ve run a cleaning company across […]