How to Create a Cleaning Checklist for Apartments
Owning or managing an apartment complex or building takes a great deal of time and effort. One of the most tedious and onerous tasks is cleaning the apartments between rentals. You can make this task easier or perhaps eliminate it completely by including a cleaning checklist for the apartments in the rental agreement. When tenants moves out, they'll be obligated to complete the cleaning checklist. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
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How to Create a Cleaning Checklist for Tenants
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Write down a list of cleaning tasks that you feel are crucial to maintaining a safe and healthy environment in the apartment. Include important things like repairing broken windows and stairs.
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Begin your list with the tasks that are most important for health and safety standards, such as removing accumulated garbage or debris.
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Include the basic cleaning tasks that are expected of all apartment tenants, such as cleaning the toilets, sinks, counters and floors.
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Add apartment-cleaning tasks that are important to your personal standards of cleanliness, such as cleaning the windows, refrigerator shelves and light switch covers.
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Continue adding cleaning tasks until you have included every item that matters to you and to future tenants.
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Include a clear and polite request to the tenant explaining that failure to complete the cleaning tasks could affect the return of the security deposit.
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Use your computers word program to write the list in clear and concise form. List your tasks in whatever order you choose, i.e. alphabetically, by room or from easiest to hardest task.
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Read the list through to make sure that you have not missed anything. Also, check your spelling and grammar.
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Print off as many copies as you need to include with every tenant lease. The tenant may check off the completed tasks while cleaning the apartment at the end of the rental agreement. In addition, the property owner or manager may check off the completed tasks while inspecting the apartment after the tenant moves out.
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Tips & Warnings
Save the list to your computer for changes you may need to make and for future use.
Be careful not to sound too harsh or demanding when writing the list. Use language and tone that is polite but firm.
