Make-ready for multifamily & property managers
Apartment make-ready. Rent-ready, not just clean.
When a unit comes back vacant, send it to one crew. We clean, repair, patch, paint and finish the floors — then check it against your punch list — so it goes back on the market without you juggling four vendors.
Make-ready for apartment communities and property managers
Every day a vacant unit sits waiting on a cleaner, then a painter, then a handyman, is a day of rent you do not get back. The work itself is not complicated. The coordination is. Three vendors means three schedules, three invoices and at least one of them waiting on another before they can start.
TPS Pro runs make-ready as a single job. One crew opens the unit, does the repairs, patches and paints, cleans top to bottom, extracts the carpet or finishes the hard floors, and checks the result against your punch list. You get one number to call, one invoice and one company responsible for the unit being ready on the date you gave us.
This page is for multifamily owners, apartment communities and property management companies with ongoing turnover. If you run student housing with a summer turn, see our student housing turnover page. If you just want to understand the process, our make-ready cleaning guide walks through it step by step.
What a TPS Pro make-ready covers
Our standard scope, before we tailor it to your property. You tell us your paint colors, finish standards and anything you always want replaced — we build it into your standing scope.
From vacancy to rent-ready in four steps
Send the unit
Email or call with the address, unit, access and the date it has to be ready. Repeat clients just send the unit — your scope is on file.
Assess and confirm
We walk the unit, note anything outside the standard scope, and confirm before extra work starts. No surprise invoices.
Repair, paint, then clean
Work runs in the right order: repairs and patching first, paint next, then the deep clean and floors so dust from repairs never lands on a finished unit.
Punch and hand back
We check the unit against the punch list, close any misses and hand it back ready to show, with completion photos when you want them.
Done in the right order, the first time
Make-ready is one of those jobs where the order of work matters as much as the work itself. Clean a unit before the drywall is patched and you will clean it twice. Paint before the repairs are finished and you will paint twice. Because one crew does every trade, we sequence the unit properly the first time.
We also turn units at the volume multifamily portfolios actually generate. That can mean a steady stream of single vacancies through the year, or a whole building of lease-ends in the same few weeks. Our crews have turned 800+ units in a single student-housing turn, so a week of apartment lease-ends does not stretch us. Where a portfolio spans towns, one contract covers Albany, Troy, Schenectady, Clifton Park and Saratoga Springs.
Paperwork is simple. We are fully insured, and send a W-9 and certificate of insurance before day one. Most property management companies set us up once through our vendor packet and then send units by email or text as they vacate.
Built for portfolios with steady turnover
Clients across the region include Rosenblum Companies, PeakMade Real Estate, Beacon Communities, WJW Management, Belmont Management and DMG Investments.
Apartment communities
Garden-style and mid-rise communities with steady lease-end turnover and common areas that need to show well.
Property management companies
Managers running mixed portfolios across the Capital Region who want one make-ready vendor for every building.
Small landlords & investors
Owners with a handful of units who need a reliable crew when a tenant moves out without warning.
Student & campus housing
Operators with a heavy summer turn. See our student turnover page for how we staff it.
From our own make-readies
Related services and further reading
Further reading: The complete make-ready cleaning guide — the checklist, the sequence and what to ask a vendor.
Make-ready questions, answered
What is a make-ready?
A make-ready is everything a vacant apartment needs between one lease and the next so it can be shown, inspected and moved into: a deep clean, repairs, paint and patch, floor care and a final check against a punch list. We handle all of it with one crew.
Is make-ready the same as a move-out clean?
No. A move-out clean only covers cleaning. A make-ready also covers the repairs, wall patching, painting, carpet extraction and punch-list items that stop a unit from being rent-ready. That is the difference between a unit that looks clean and a unit you can lease.
Can you handle single units as well as whole buildings?
Yes. We turn one-off vacancies for small landlords and run scheduled make-readies across entire apartment communities. For portfolios with steady turnover, we set up a standing scope so each ticket is quick to send and consistent to deliver.
How do we send you a unit?
Email bookings@totalpropertysolution.net or call (518) 948-7156 with the address, unit number, access details and the date the unit needs to be ready. For repeat clients we keep your standard scope on file, so the unit and the deadline are usually all we need.
How is make-ready priced?
Every property is quoted after a walkthrough, based on unit size, condition and the scope you want — cleaning only, or cleaning plus repairs and paint. For portfolios, we agree on a standing scope per unit type so every ticket is priced the same way.
Are you insured, and can you get set up as a vendor?
Yes. TPS Pro is fully insured. We send a W-9 and a certificate of insurance before day one, naming your company as certificate holder, so your accounting and compliance teams have what they need before the first unit.
Unit vacant? Send it over.
Tell us the unit count, location and the date it has to be ready. We reply with a scope and a real number — usually within one business day.
- One crew for clean, repair, paint and floors
- Standing scopes for repeat portfolios
- Procurement team? Get our vendor packet