Airbnb & Vacation Rental Cleaning

We run every turnover in the same order, because a fixed sequence is what makes a deadline reliable: strip and remake beds, bathrooms, kitchen and dishes, floors, interior glass and sliders, lanai or balcony, restock consumables, stage, photograph, out. Nothing is left to whoever happens to be holding the key that day.

Every turnover ends with photos of each room sent to you, plus a note on anything broken, missing or left behind. You should not have to drive to the property to know whether it is guest-ready, and you should never learn about a problem from a review.

Hutchinson Island is two barrier islands spanning Martin, St. Lucie and Indian River counties, split by the Fort Pierce Inlet, with SR-A1A running roughly 22 miles up it. Martin County caps building height there at four stories, so its side is low-rise houses and small buildings; the St. Lucie oceanfront carries mid-rise condo towers. Both are reached across a causeway, and both have the same cleaning problem in different packaging.

Salt film is the whole game. It builds on sliders, window glass, railings and fixtures until a quick wipe just smears it, and a rental is sold on the view through that glass. Sand walks in at every entry and lives in tracks and thresholds. And a unit closed between bookings in August will smell damp unless somebody moves air and resets the wet rooms properly. We plan barrier-island turns around those three things instead of treating them as an afterthought, and we would rather tell you honestly which windows we can hold across the causeway than promise a turn we cannot reach.

This coast has a season, and a large share of the property on it is used for part of the year rather than rented year-round. That produces a kind of work most turnover pages ignore: the close-up clean when the owners leave, a recurring visit while the property sits, and the open-the-house clean before the owner or the first guest of the season arrives.

We treat those as three distinct jobs with three different scopes, because they are. A close-up clean is about leaving nothing behind that will spoil, smell or grow over a Florida summer. A holding visit is about keeping the place ready and telling you what we found. An open-the-house clean is a deep clean with a different sequence: air moving first, then the wet rooms, then soft surfaces, then the kitchen, then floors and glass last. Owners who rent part of the season and use the place for the rest of it get the same checklist for both.

Managing several units turns cleaning into a scheduling problem rather than a cleaning problem. We sync to your booking calendar instead of asking you to call in each turnover, coordinate same-day changeovers across properties, and give you one point of contact rather than a different cleaner per unit. Unlike some Florida markets, turnover work on this coast is not locked up by a handful of large management companies, so there is room to consolidate the cleaning across units that are currently running at different standards.

One practical note rather than legal advice: Florida requires short-term rentals to hold a state DBPR license, and Martin County levies a tourist development tax on stays of six months or less, with an exemption above six months under a written lease. Those are the operator's responsibility rather than ours, and rules differ by county -- check with your own county before you list. What we handle is the clean, the calendar and the photo trail.