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A recent Birmingham rehab, cleaned to listing-ready standard — from construction dust to camera-ready.
A recent Birmingham rehab, cleaned to listing-ready standard — from construction dust to camera-ready.
It's post-construction cleaning, sold to someone with a hard-money clock running. Same dust. Same HEPA-rated tools. Same crew. What's different is what it costs you to wait.
A rehabbed flip has construction dust in the window tracks, the cabinets, the vents and the fixtures — exactly like a new build. So we price it the same way: by square footage, from $350. No mystery quote, no “call us.”
Didn't renovate? If you bought distressed and you're listing it as-is, that's a deep clean, not a dust removal — priced at turnover rates, from $320.
Rehab cleaning, flip cleaning, distressed-property cleaning and listing prep for investors and agents across Greater Birmingham.
A landlord loses rent. You lose carry — and carry doesn't care whether anyone showed up to work today.
A Birmingham flip: $150,000 purchase + $50,000 rehab.
| What's bleeding | Per month |
|---|---|
| Bridge / hard-money interestInterest-only at ~11%. Accrues from the day of funding, working or not. | ~$1,560 |
| Property taxA flip is Class II — assessed at 20% of market value, not the 10% a homeowner pays (Ala. Code § 40-8-1). No homestead exemption. | ~$220 |
| Vacant / builder's-risk insuranceRequired by the lender. Costs more than a standard policy. | ~$200 |
| UtilitiesPower and water have to stay on for the trades. | ~$225 |
| Total carry | ~$2,200/mo |
~$72/day
About $500 a week — every week, including the ones where nothing happens. A landlord bleeds $38–45 a day. You bleed nearly double.
Different deal size? Carry runs roughly $35–40 a day for every $100,000 you're into the property — about 13% of all-in cost per year. It doesn't scale perfectly: utilities are flat, so smaller deals actually bleed a higher percentage than larger ones.
ATTOM data puts the average flip at 163 days from purchase to resale — over five months of carry on an asset earning $0. On this deal, that's roughly $11,700 gone before you've paid a single selling cost.
We don't sell cleaning. We sell the day the property goes on market.
Illustrative, based on an 85% loan-to-cost bridge at 11% interest-only, Jefferson County Class II assessment, and Birmingham millage. Your actual carry depends on your lender, municipality, and deal. Run your own numbers — the point holds at any size.
Priced by square footage, from $350 — the same rate as post-construction, because it's the same work.
| The property | What it needs | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| You rehabbed itConstruction dust in tracks, cabinets, vents | Post-construction clean | Post-construction rate from $350 |
| You didn't rehab itBought distressed, listing as-is | Deep clean | Turnover rate from $320 |
| It's full of the last owner's belongingsForeclosure, estate, abandoned | Cleanout first, then clean | $300 min + clean, separately |
Listing-prep add-ons are quoted on-site — staging support, odd scope, anything past a clean. The clean itself has a number.
The back half. Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat — deals bleed in the rehab and in the gap between ‘done’ and ‘producing’.
When the contractor pulls out, we come in. The property goes from construction-dirty to leasing-ready or listing-ready — same crew, same standard, either way.
You bought it as-is. It shows. Deep clean on a property that's been neglected, vacant, or lived hard in — grease, grime, odor, staining, and buildup that a standard clean won't touch.
Post-renovation cleaning on a flip. Construction dust, adhesive residue, paint overspray, fixture polish, and a full finish-quality pass — so the property photographs like the renovation you paid for.
MLS photo-ready. Every surface, fixture, window, and floor taken to presentation standard. Because listing photos are the first showing, and a dusty baseboard in a photo costs you offers.
The final pass before it goes live — or before a showing, an appraisal, or a buyer walkthrough.
Two ways. A property that photographs well gets more showings, more offers, and a better price. And every day it sits after rehab is a day of carry against zero income.
Listing and show-ready prep is quoted on-site based on property size and condition. View pricing →
Real estate investors running BRRRR, flips, or buy-and-hold who need the property producing, not sitting.
Real estate agents preparing a listing for photos and showings.
Wholesalers and rehabbers moving distressed inventory that needs to be presentable fast.
Because most of them will only do half the job. Cleaning companies won't touch an eviction or a heavy trash-out. Junk haulers empty a property and leave it filthy. Two vendors, two invoices, two standards — and you holding the schedule together.
Kidoti does the whole transition. Cleanout, trash-out, deep clean, post-construction, rehab, listing prep. Why we built it this way →
One of four, and we tell you which before we start. Every job runs a written scope checklist — you get the same copy we do. We bring commercial-grade equipment and all supplies; you provide access. Photo documentation on request.
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