Move-In & Move-Out Cleaning in Cambridge, MA
Empty-apartment cleans scheduled between your last box and the landlord's inspection.
42-Point Clean Checklist·Free Re-Clean in 24h·No Contracts
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The Same Kitchen, One Clean Apart
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What Is Included
Three Steps to a Clean Home
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Send us the address and we quote you within 30 minutes.
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Pick the day and the time that suit you.
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We clean to the 42-point checklist -- and re-clean free if you are not happy.
Not satisfied? We come back and reclean for free within 24 hours.
Our detailed checklist ensures nothing gets missed.
The price we confirm before we start is the price you pay.
Ask in English or Spanish -- you get the same answer either way.
Safe for your family, pets, and the environment.
All cleaning supplies and equipment included. You provide nothing.
Where We Provide This Service
A move in this metro has a hard date attached, and more often than not it is the same hard date as everybody else's. Kiwi's move-in and move-out cleaning is built for exactly that: an empty-unit clean, scoped to what a landlord or property manager actually inspects, scheduled to land between your last box and their first look.
How Our Pricing Works
Every home is different. So is every quote.
Fixed upfront pricing — no surprises.
What shapes your price
- Home size (bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage)
- Service type (house cleaning, deep, move-out, Airbnb turnover, commercial)
- Condition and special requests (pets, post-construction, etc.)
- Frequency (weekly, biweekly, monthly, one-time)
- Where you are in Greater Boston
How you get a number
- Request a free quote online, by call, or by text. We respond within 30 minutes during business hours.
- We confirm the details that matter — no guessing, no hidden fees after the clean.
- Recurring clients get discounted rates vs. one-time visits.
Track everything in your portal
- Create an account when you request your quote.
- Approve the quote, schedule the clean, pay, and message us — all in one place.
Move-In/Out - Cambridge, MA
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Frequently Asked Questions
More about Move-In & Move-Out Cleaning in Cambridge, MA
Neighborhoods, local conditions, and how we work here.
This is the busiest service we run here, and the reason is structural rather than seasonal marketing. Leases across this metro end together on September 1 -- roughly two-thirds of them -- and Cambridge and Somerville stack their own turnover on that date because the university calendars move together. Movers, trucks and cleaning calendars all bottleneck in the same stretch of late August, and the deposit walk-throughs line up right behind. There is a quieter second wave at the end of the spring term. Both produce the same job: a unit that has to be empty, clean and inspectable on a fixed day.
The checklist is the inspection list: appliances inside and out, cabinets and drawers wiped in their emptied state, tub, shower, sink and toilet taken back to clean rather than tidy, window casings, sills and tracks cleared, baseboards and door frames wiped, closets and shelving done, floors last. In century-old housing the edges are where a deposit is won or lost, and that is where we spend the time. If the unit needs more than cleaning -- paint, patching, a floor refinish -- we say so instead of letting you find out at the walk-through.
The September 1 Turnover
Every city has a moving season. This one has a moving day. Leases across the metro end on September 1, the universities turn over at the same time, and the result is a bottleneck that touches everything: movers booked out, trucks fighting for curb space, and every cleaner in three cities working the same handful of days.
What that means for you is simple and unromantic. Book earlier than feels necessary. A move-out clean scheduled a few days after your handover date is not a clean at all -- it is a deduction. We schedule backwards from your handover, we tell you honestly which days are still open rather than promising a slot we cannot hold, and we would rather turn a job down than take one we would have to rush.
Built Around the Walk-Through
Deposit inspections in this metro are unsentimental, and so are buyers' final walk-throughs. The difference between "professionally cleaned" and "broom clean" is usually the difference between a returned deposit and a deduction. Our move-out clean works from the list the inspector actually carries: appliance interiors, cabinet interiors, fixtures back to clean, casings and sills, floors without film. We schedule backwards from your handover date so nothing has time to slip between our visit and their inspection.
Move-ins are the same job pointed the other way. The empty week before your furniture arrives is the one week the whole place is reachable at once -- inside every cabinet, behind every door, along every baseboard -- and a unit cleaned then stays easier to keep for as long as you live in it.
Ideal For
- Tenants with a September 1 handover and a deposit on the line
- Landlords and property managers turning units between leases
- Students and graduate households moving at term change
- Buyers who want a genuinely clean unit before the furniture arrives
- Anyone moving into a floor of an older building for the first time
How It Works
Dates First
Tell us the handover or walk-through date; we schedule backwards from it.
Scope the Unit
Size, condition, empty or not, stairs or elevator -- the quote matches the actual job.
The Inspection Clean
The full empty-unit checklist, appliances to baseboards.
Guaranteed
If the walk-through catches something we missed, we come back free within 24 hours.