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Make-Ready, End to End

The Apartment Turnover, Coordinated End to End.

In a fragmented model, each trade is scheduled separately and the unit waits between them. Maximus manages the full make-ready sequence within one service structure, against one approved scope, so the calendar is controlled under a single accountable partner rather than negotiated across separate vendors.

Inspection, punch list, carpentry, drywall, paint, carpet and floor care, final clean and closing quality review are managed and coordinated by Maximus, against a single unit record, on a single schedule. Projected completion timelines are established based on the approved scope and property requirements.

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Apartment turnover and make-ready services in Greater Boston
Where the Time Goes

The Delay Is Usually Between the Trades, Not Inside Them

In a fragmented turnover, most of the elapsed time is not spent working on the unit. It is spent waiting — for the next vendor's availability, for a scope question to be answered, for a repair that should have been completed before the finish trade arrived, or for someone to confirm the unit is genuinely ready to be shown.

Integrated scheduling is designed to reduce unnecessary handoffs and vacancy downtime. Sequencing is set once, at scope approval, and the trades are dispatched against it. Turnover timelines are established based on unit condition, approved scope, property access and project requirements.

This is why we do not compete on hourly rate. We compete on how the schedule is coordinated.

How We Do It

Nine Steps. One Coordinated Schedule.

Each step below is managed and coordinated by Maximus, in this sequence, against a single approved scope and service record.

01 — Inspection

A supervisor walks the unit once it is released to us, scheduled promptly against notice and access. Deficiencies are photographed and coded by trade. The output is a scoped work order rather than an estimate from memory.

02 — Punch List

The walk becomes a line-item digital estimate against your agreed rate schedule, approved in writing before work begins. Scope is documented rather than agreed verbally, and any change to it is issued as a written change order for approval before it is performed.

03 — Maintenance

Carpentry, cabinets, hardware, doors, trim, shelving, blinds. Repairs come first, because repairing after painting means preparing and coating the same surface twice.

04 — Drywall

Holes, corners, ceilings, texture, surface preparation. The bridge between repair and finish, and the step most often left unassigned when trades are contracted separately.

05 — Painting

Interior repaint. Where a planned scope in pre-1978 housing constitutes regulated work, it is performed in accordance with the Massachusetts lead program.

06 — Carpet

Carpet, hard floor, tile and grout, odor treatment and surface restoration. Sequenced after painting, and restored rather than replaced wherever the fiber and backing condition allow.

07 — Cleaning

Final presentation clean. The last team to touch the unit before your leasing agent does.

08 — Quality Review

A closing punch walk against the approved scope, conducted by a supervisor. Items that do not pass generate a corrective follow-up before the unit is reported as complete.

09 — Move-In Ready

You receive a completion report with the photographic record before the invoice is issued. The invoice follows, referencing the estimate you approved.

Single-vendor apartment turnover process
The Real Deliverable

What You Stop Doing

The cycle time is what you buy. What you notice first is everything that disappears from your week.

  • You Stop Sequencing Multiple VendorsOne scope, one schedule, one supervisor accountable for the calendar.
  • You Stop Following Up on AttendanceCheck-in and check-out are recorded through our field system and reported against the property.
  • You Stop Settling Damage Questions From MemoryCondition and completion photographs are filed against the unit record where the scope calls for them.
  • You Stop Processing Separate Invoices for One UnitOne invoice, referencing an estimate you already approved in writing.
  • You Stop Guessing Whether the Unit Is ReadyA supervisor closes the unit against the approved scope, and the completion report reaches you before the invoice does.
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Give Us a Property and a Unit Count.

We will walk it, scope it, and return a written proposal with a projected lease-ready date — at no cost and with no obligation.