Move Out Cleaning Philadelphia, Cleaned to Your Landlord’s Checklist

Moving out of a Philadelphia apartment or rowhome is busy enough without spending your last day scrubbing the oven. We are Move Out Cleaning Company, and we handle the move-out clean so you can put your energy into the move itself. You get a flat quote up front, a crew that brings its own supplies, and a clean built around the move-out checklist your landlord will walk through.

We clean the place top to bottom once the furniture is gone, the way a landlord inspects it. The flat price we quote is the price you pay, with no hidden fees tacked on at the end, and we schedule around your move date so the clean lands after you load the truck and before you hand back the keys.

What our Philadelphia move-out clean covers

A move-out clean goes deeper than a regular tidy, because it targets the spots a landlord checks when deciding what comes out of your deposit. Our move-out cleaning covers the whole unit once it is empty:

• Kitchen: inside and outside the oven, the stovetop, inside the fridge, cabinets wiped inside and out, counters, sink and backsplash
• Bathrooms: tub, shower, tile, toilet, vanity, mirror and any soap or hard-water buildup
• Floors throughout, swept, vacuumed and mopped, including closets and corners
• Baseboards, window sills, door frames, light switches and the other spots that collect dust
• Walls spot-cleaned for marks, with cobwebs cleared from ceilings and corners

Tell us what is on your landlord’s move-out checklist and we clean to it. If something on that list gets missed and the landlord flags it, we come back and re-clean that part for free. A clean that matches the checklist takes away one of the most common reasons money gets held back, which gives you the best chance at a full deposit, though the landlord’s decision is always theirs.

Getting your deposit back in Pennsylvania

Here is some general information, not legal advice. Under Pennsylvania law, a landlord has 30 days after you move out to return your deposit along with an itemized list of any deductions, and a landlord who wrongfully withholds it can owe up to double the amount. In the first year a deposit is capped at two months’ rent, and after that at one month, and deposits held more than two years must sit in an escrow account that earns interest on the amount over $100. Rules change and your lease can add its own terms, so confirm the current state rules and read your lease before you count on any timeline.

What you can control is the condition you leave the place in. A unit cleaned to the checklist removes the easy, documented reasons a landlord reaches for, like a dirty oven, a grimy tub or floors left uncleaned.

Neighborhoods and suburbs we clean

We are all over the city and the towns around it. We clean apartments, condos, rowhomes and the older walk-ups Philadelphia is full of, in Center City, Rittenhouse, Fishtown, Northern Liberties, South Philly, Fairmount, Manayunk, Old City and the student rentals around University City near Penn and Drexel. We also head out to nearby Upper Darby and across the river to Cherry Hill.

Older rowhomes and walk-ups bring their own quirks, like narrow stairs and radiator nooks, and we clean them with that in mind rather than rushing through.

What a move-out clean costs in Philadelphia

Price depends on the size of the place and the shape it is in, so the honest answer is a range. In the Philadelphia market a move-out clean for an apartment often ranges from about $150 to $340, and for a rowhome or house it often ranges from about $350 to $600, depending on size and condition. We do not quote off that range alone, though. We quote your actual place as one flat number before any work starts, and requests like interior windows or inside the cabinets go into that same number.

How booking works

It is simple. Send your address, the size of the place and your move date through the form or a quick call. We send back a flat quote. You pick a time that fits between moving the furniture out and handing over the keys, and our crew arrives with everything needed to clean the unit to the checklist. If your landlord later flags something on that list, we return and re-clean it at no cost.

If you are renting an apartment, our apartment move-out cleaning page covers that in more detail, and if your main worry is the deposit, our security deposit cleaning and end-of-lease cleaning pages are worth a read. We clean in metros across the country, including Atlanta and Charlotte, and you can see them all on our locations page.

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