What is a Rental Turnover or 'Turn' for short?

What is a Rental Turnover or 'Turn' for short? The 'turn' of a rental property is performed after your old tenants move out and before your new tenants move in. This period can average anywhere from 1-3 weeks. This is a period of cleaning, maintenance & repair inspections and completing any deferred items that the property needs as well as screening and selecting your new tenants. 

Below in the links section is a great article entitled, "How Much Does Tenant Turnover Really Cost?" about all of the costs associated with turnover by RentecDirect.com. 

Why is a Rental Turnover more expensive than just a regular cleaning?  A regular cleaning service averages between $180-$240 (a Google search can give you these figures) for one person to come to your home and essentially spruce it up a little bit. When you factor in all of your furniture, cabinets, closets, and accumulated personal items........they essentially clean about 20-30% of your home's square footage. Did we mention most cleaning services do not service the inside of cabinets and closets while your furniture blocks the other major portion of the surface square footage of your home? They do a fantastic job but it is a surface level cleaning. Our Rental Turnovers clean 100% of the interior of the property. At this time you have to figure the entire house is empty including all cabinets, closets, appliances and all of the little nooks and crannies around a home. We are servicing 2-4x more area than a traditional cleaning. A team of two professionals show up to every turnover to handle this service. While there, as an MHIC licensed outfit, we are assessing the home for needed repairs and deferred maintenance items to make it safer and operate more efficiently. You are saving time and money not having to pay for a contractor to come and assess / estimate for repairs. As a result we generally are able to get the property turned over faster and at less cost.

Below in the links section is a great article entitled "Our First Tenant Turnover Experience" by Alex V. from Roofstock.com about their turnover experience and the costs / time associated with it. 

What is the difference between a Construction Cleaning and a Rental Turnover? A construction cleaning has a lot more debris, caked on dust, and items that need attention compared to a normal cleaning. A construction cleaning costs can be nearly double that of an average turnover due to the level of involvement it requires and the extra equipment. For example a regular vacuum is unable to intake large quantities of construction dust from drywall and wood work. Therefore an industrial vacuum specific to those materials is required to be brought on site. Flooring also takes a lot of abuse during construction / remodeling which requires extra care and attention to bring them back to life (not refinishing but make them look the best as possible). Dried paint, construction adhesives, and ground in debris are all embedded in the floors.  Interesting bit about this is that window cleaning is not normally included due to the level of dust and debris left behind and the pricing is per window additionally on theses types of services. 

Here is an excerpt from the HomeAdvisor article linked below:

"Post-Construction Cleaning Price per Square Foot

Post-construction cleanup costs $0.35 to $0.50 per square foot. That means the average 2,500-square-foot house costs $250 to $1,250 total. You might pay more if you add other services like window cleaning, debris removal, or landscaping.

Below in the links section is an article entitled "Learn How Much It Costs to Clean Construction Sites" on HomeAdvisor written by their staff about post construction cleaning costs.