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The turnover checklist that keeps five star reviews five star
The turnover checklist we run on Charlotte County and island rentals, including the six places sand hides that guests always find first.
Guests do not review the parts of a rental that were cleaned. They review the one thing that was missed. A hair in the shower drain, sand in the sofa seam, a coffee pod tray nobody restocked. Each of those is a two minute job during a turnover and a permanent line on your listing if it gets skipped. This is the actual checklist we run, published so you can hold us to it or hand it to whoever cleans for you now.
It is written for this market specifically. On Manasota Key, Gasparilla Island, Don Pedro, Casey Key and Venice the enemy is sand, and it hides in the same six places every time regardless of how careful the last guest was. Those six get named individually on the list rather than being covered by a general instruction to clean the floors, because a general instruction is exactly what produces sand in the sofa.
The six places sand always hides
- The slider track, along the full length of the channel
- Underneath the entry mat, not just on top of it
- Sofa and chair seams, cushions out
- The lanai threshold where the door seals
- The far corner of the shower floor
- Inside beach chair bags, coolers and the beach cart
- Bed frames and under the bed, where it gets walked in
- Washer drum after beach towels, before the next linens go in
What happens after the cleaning is done
Every turnover ends with an inspection pass and a photo set, taken from the same angles each time, and sent before check in. That gives you three things at once: proof the unit was guest ready, a dated record if a guest later claims damage that was already there, and an inventory check so you find out the blender is missing now rather than when the next guest looks for it. Owners managing from out of state end up relying on the photo set more than anything else.
Anything found gets reported the same day rather than at the end of the month. Damage, stains, missing items, a smoke detector chirping, a slider that is sticking. You get it while the platform claim window is still open and while there is still time to do something about it before the next arrival. We do not throw away anything that might matter to a claim.
Questions about airbnb turnover checklist
If your question is not here, call and ask it. We would rather tell you a smaller job is enough than sell you a bigger one.
Can I give you my own checklist instead?
Yes, and plenty of owners do. Send us the list you already use and we will run yours, adding anything from ours you are missing only if you want it. The written scope is whatever we agree, not whatever we prefer.
What if a guest checks out late?
You hear from us straight away, while there is still time to message the incoming guest or adjust the check in time. What we will not do is quietly rush the unit and hand you a review problem instead of a scheduling one.
Do you work with property managers?
Regularly. Managers running several units get one schedule, one contact and one invoice across the whole portfolio, with the same photo report per unit. It is the same service, organized so you are not coordinating turnovers unit by unit.
Tell us about the property
The walkthrough costs nothing and nobody pitches you at it. We look, we ask what keeps going wrong, and we put the number and the list in writing. You decide after that, in your own time.
- We come out free and nothing gets signed
- A written room by room list, not a promise made on the phone
- A flat price per visit, never a running clock
- Certificate of insurance issued to your association on request
- The same crew returns to your address
- A couple of days of notice ends a house plan, no penalty
Straight answers
Outside those hours it goes to voicemail and comes back the next business morning.
Get your free walkthrough
Tell us where the property is and what it needs. The list and the price come back, usually the same business day.
Get a price for airbnb turnover checklist.
The walkthrough costs nothing, takes about twenty minutes, and ends with the list and the number in writing.