01 / Porter
Day porter services
A porter on site during your open hours for restrooms, lobbies and spills.
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Apartment Common Areas
Apartment common areas residents are proud of.
Residents notice shared spaces every time they come home. We clean lobbies, hallways, mailrooms, fitness rooms and clubhouses.
Printable checklist
What a common-area plan covers.
Property managers judge common-area cleaning by what residents mention and what prospects notice on a tour. Lobbies, mailrooms, elevators and amenity rooms each wear in their own way, so each gets its own place in the plan and its own visit schedule.
Shared spaces carry a building’s reputation with residents and with the people touring it. We clean entry doors and glass, lobbies, mail and package rooms, elevators, stairwells and corridors, plus fitness rooms, clubhouses and the leasing office, each on its own schedule.
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02 / Carpet
Commercial carpet cleaning
Hot-water extraction and spot treatment that lift traffic lanes and stains.
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Janitorial services
Nightly or weekly janitorial care that keeps the whole building in order, visit after visit.
View detailsThe spaces residents pass every day.
Common areas take a particular kind of wear. Packages stack up in the mailroom, dog walkers come in with wet paws, delivery carts roll across the lobby and umbrellas drip on the elevator floor. None of it is anyone’s fault, and all of it shows.
Each visit works through those spaces: entry doors and glass, lobby floors and mats, mail and package room counters, elevator cabs and thresholds, stairwells and corridors. Common trash and recycling rooms are emptied, wiped and swept so odors stay out of the hallways.
Amenities and the leasing office.
Amenities have their own rhythm. The fitness room needs equipment wiped and mirrors cleaned after the evening rush. The clubhouse needs the kitchen, restrooms and furniture reset after weekend gatherings. The leasing office needs to look its best before the first tour of the day.
Visits are timed to those moments, and a day porter keeps the lobby, mailroom and leasing office tour-ready during office hours while the full clean happens later.
Corridor carpet and turnover season.
Corridor carpet takes moving dollies, wet shoes and steady foot traffic. Vacuuming on every visit keeps grit from grinding in, and extraction on a set schedule lifts what the vacuum can’t. The slower months, ahead of the busy leasing season, are a good time for it.
When an amenity remodel wraps up, a construction cleanup brings the space back to tour-ready.
Setting the visit schedule.
A full clean of lobbies, mailrooms, elevators and corridors several times a week suits most communities, with amenity rooms and the leasing office on their own nights. Move-in weekends, community events and the start of the leasing season can each add a visit, and the plan is updated whenever your calendar changes.
Apartment common-area cleaning costs
Apartment buildings pay for common-area cleaning by the space cleaned and the visits each week, not by the number of units. Market data for 2026 puts the regional office band at $0.15 to $0.25 per square foot monthly, lower in the Sacramento suburbs and higher in San Francisco. Three to five visits a week usually covers a building, so the monthly total often runs lower than an office of the same footage. Trash rooms, package rooms and lobbies that see residents all day are where the time goes. The full regional bands are in our cleaning cost guide.
Picture a 150-unit Sunnyvale building with a lobby, a mail and package room, a fitness room, a rooftop lounge and five floors of carpeted corridors, about 13,500 square feet of common area in all. Cleaned five days a week at $0.18, it comes to $2,430 a month; a three-day schedule with a weekend lobby check costs less. Move-in season, pet traffic, amenity events and periodic carpet extraction in the halls all add time, and the walkthrough with your property manager sets the plan.
A few useful answers
Common questions.
Can a porter cover the leasing office during tours?
Yes. A porter can keep the leasing office, lobby and amenity rooms tour-ready during office hours.
Do you clean package rooms and mailrooms?
Yes. Counters, shelves and floors are cleaned and trash cleared on each visit.
Can hallway carpet be deep cleaned?
Yes. Hallway carpet can get extraction on a schedule, often before the busy leasing months.
How do you keep elevator floors clean in a busy building?
Elevator floors and thresholds are cleaned every visit, and a porter can spot-clean them through move-in weekends.
Can the leasing team ask for an extra visit before an open house?
Yes. Tell us the date and we’ll add a visit that morning or the evening before.
Do you clean the fitness room every visit?
Yes. Equipment is wiped, mirrors cleaned and floors done on each visit, since residents use it daily.
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