Cleaning Services in Ocean Springs, MS

The town has a character it did not borrow from anywhere. Downtown runs along Government Street under live oaks, with the Walter Anderson Museum of Art and Shearwater Pottery carrying an arts lineage that is genuinely local rather than imported. Fort Maurepas marks the colonial founding, the headquarters of Gulf Islands National Seashore is here, and Front Beach and the Ocean Springs Harbor sit a few blocks from the shops. The Peter Anderson Festival takes over the first weekend of November. The city calls itself the City of Discovery, and it has turned up on national lists of the happiest seaside towns and the best coastal small towns.

That reputation shows up hard in the rental numbers. About 512 short-term rentals operate here, with average annual revenue per listing up 17 percent year over year -- the strongest growth on this coast -- at 50 percent occupancy. On AirDNA's market score Ocean Springs rates 96, higher than any other submarket on the Mississippi coast. The city also requires a short-term rental permit that must be displayed inside the unit, which tells you what kind of host operates here: people running a property as a business, not renting a spare room twice a year.

The cleaning follows the housing. Older cottages and bungalows near downtown have trim, transoms, wood floors and window tracks that a quick pass through the middle of a room will not touch. The newer subdivisions out toward Gulf Hills and Gulf Park Estates want the ordinary recurring service, on a schedule. And everything within sight of the water fights the same two things: humidity that keeps bathrooms and grout working against you, and salt air and sand that get into tracks, thresholds and screens. On a rental with a front-porch view, that is what the next guest photographs.