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Move-In Cleaning in Westwood.
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Move-in cleaning for empty Westwood homes: cabinet interiors, closet shelves, appliance insides, and floors finished last, timed to land before your movers do.

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Move-In Cleaning · Westwood

Move-in cleaning for Westwood before the boxes ever arrive

An empty unit is the only chance you get. Once furniture lands in a Corridor condo or a Midvale apartment, the closet floors, the inside of the cabinets, and the space behind the refrigerator are gone for the length of your lease. Move-in cleaning exists to use that window while it is still open. Nobody gets a second empty day.

We clean an empty home differently: light fixtures and fan blades first, since dust falls, then cabinets and drawers inside and out, closet shelves and rails, appliance interiors, window channels, and floors last so the finish is not walked back over. Bathrooms are sanitized as though the previous tenant left yesterday, because in Westwood's June and September turns they often did. In doorman buildings we book the elevator for the day before your movers need it.

The bookings come from two directions. New Corridor owners want the unit cleaned after escrow closes and before movers arrive, and they usually want the HOA paperwork handled without being asked. Students and their families take the Gayley and Westwood Village units the week a lease starts, often sight unseen, and want somebody to confirm the place is genuinely clean before anyone unpacks.

Move-in checklist

What's included in move-in cleaning

The complete checklist used for Westwood homes.

🍳 Kitchen6 points+
  • Every cabinet and drawer wiped inside
  • Oven interior and racks cleaned
  • Refrigerator shelves and seals sanitized
  • Dishwasher filter and door edge cleaned
  • Sink, disposal and faucet scrubbed
  • Behind and beside the appliances vacuumed
🚿 Bathrooms6 points+
  • Tub, tile and grout scrubbed
  • Toilet sanitized including base and bolts
  • Vanity emptied, wiped and dried
  • Medicine cabinet interior cleaned
  • Drains cleared and flushed
  • Fixtures descaled and polished
🚪 Closets and Storage6 points+
  • Shelves wiped top and underside
  • Hanging rails cleaned
  • Closet floors vacuumed and mopped
  • Door tracks cleared of grit
  • Shelf liners removed if left behind
  • Storage areas swept out
🪟 Windows and Floors6 points+
  • Interior glass cleaned edge to edge
  • Window and slider tracks vacuumed
  • Sills and reveals hand-wiped
  • Baseboards washed along the full run
  • Hard floors mopped as the final step
  • Carpets vacuumed in one exit pass

Recent project photos

Move-In Cleaning work you can see

Service-matched examples from Art’s Cleaning projects across our service area.

Empty kitchen cleaned for a property handoff
Empty kitchen cleaned for a property handoff
Clean empty room opening to a patio
Clean empty room opening to a patio
Empty room with clean wood flooring
Empty room with clean wood flooring
Open refrigerator after an interior clean
Open refrigerator after an interior clean

Transparent pricing

Clear Westwood pricing

The original published ranges are shown exactly as provided.

Typical range

$200–$550+

Move-in cleaning in Westwood is priced from this published range against the empty-home scope.

Upfront quote

Free

No charge to quote a move-in across Westwood.

Reply timing

ASAP

We reply as soon as possible during business hours.

Local expertise

Move-In Cleaning across Westwood

These neighborhood notes are unique to this exact city and service combination.

Wilshire Corridor

New owners get one empty day between closing and movers, so the elevator booking and the clean have to be locked to the same window.

Midvale

Apartments handed over between tenants rarely get a landlord clean worth the name, so cabinet and closet interiors come first.

Westwood Village

Units above the shops are often leased sight unseen, and a move-in clean is what tells a family the place is genuinely ready.

Comstock Hills

Houses bought mid-year are cleaned after the sellers clear out, when garages, closets, and appliance interiors are finally reachable.

Gayley

Student leases start on a fixed date with no grace period, so we work the unit the day before keys turn over rather than after.

Century Woods

Gated arrivals need crew registration cleared in advance, otherwise the clean loses hours at the gate on the one day it cannot afford to.

How it works

Booked, cleaned, checked, ready

01

Request

Share your home size, timing, and priorities.

02

Confirm

We confirm the exact scope and upfront price.

03

Clean + Check

Your trained team follows the room-by-room checklist.

04

Ready

The work is checked before your team locks up.

Customer reviews

What customers say about our move-in cleaning

Housecall Pro

Housecall Pro verified customer

Efficient, industrious , beautiful job

K, Barbara

Google

★★★★★

Cleaners were professional, thorough and did an excellent job!

Lori Weigel

Google

★★★★★

Great job & very patient!!! Will definitely use again. Thank you so much Alex!!

Tammy Andres

Good to know

Move-In Cleaning in Westwood: questions answered

What does move-in cleaning cost in Westwood?

It falls inside the published $200–$550+ range. Empty homes sit higher than you might expect because cabinet interiors, closet shelves, and appliance insides are all in scope rather than skipped around furniture. We quote in writing before your move date.

Which Westwood areas do you cover for move-ins?

All of 90024 and the campus 90095. That includes the Wilshire Corridor towers, Westwood Village, Comstock Hills, Westwood Hills, Little Holmby, Century Woods, and the apartment blocks on Midvale, Gayley, Hilgard, Glenrock, and Warner Avenue. Newly purchased condominiums and first-year student leases are both routine work for us.

When should the clean happen relative to my movers?

The day before is ideal, so floors and cabinet interiors are finished and dry before anything is carried in. If the building only gives you one elevator window, we clean early that morning and finish before the truck is unloaded.

Do you handle the building paperwork?

Yes. Corridor and Century Woods properties usually want vendor registration and paperwork on file before a crew enters. Send us the management contact when you book and we submit it, rather than leaving it on your moving week.

Is a move-in clean different from a deep clean?

The scope overlaps, but the sequence changes. With no furniture we work interiors first and floors last, and nothing gets moved twice. In an occupied home a deep clean has to work around belongings, which is slower and reaches less.

How fast can you be scheduled?

Often within a day or two, and same-day availability exists for urgent Westwood moves. Reserve the slot online or by phone at (323) 370-0898. We reply as soon as possible during business hours; a firm move date helps us confirm availability.

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