{"id":114,"date":"2026-08-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/move-out-walk-through-checklist\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:00:00","slug":"move-out-walk-through-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/move-out-walk-through-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"What Minneapolis landlords check at a move-out walk-through"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We clean about thirty-five move-outs a month, and the walk-through notes landlords send back are nearly always the same. They rarely mention floors or counters. They mention the places nobody looks at while living somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The seven spots landlords flag most<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>The oven, especially its floor and the inner door glass.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The fridge door seal, where crumbs and mold gather in the folds.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The bathroom exhaust fan cover, which is usually gray with dust.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Window tracks, full of grit, dead bugs and cottonwood fluff.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The top edges of door frames and baseboards.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Inside the kitchen cabinets, above all under the sink.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The toilet\u2019s base and the floor behind it.<\/li>\n\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you only have an hour, spend it on these. A spotless counter won\u2019t save your deposit if the oven is crusted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Minnesota law says about timing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under Minnesota\u2019s security deposit law (Minn. Stat. 504B.178), a landlord has three weeks after your tenancy ends and you give a forwarding address to return the deposit or send a written list of deductions. Normal wear and tear can\u2019t be deducted. Dirt can. That is the whole reason move-out cleaning exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Take photos before you hand in the keys\n<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take a photo of every room from the doorway, then close-ups of the seven spots above. Our teams send you that set when they finish, but dated photos on your own phone are worth having too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When to book the clean<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the movers and before the walk-through, ideally the day before. Clean an empty unit, not one with boxes still along the walls, or you will pay for a second visit to do the corners the boxes hid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seven spots property managers check first at a Minneapolis move-out, what Minnesota law says about deposit timing, and what to photograph before you hand in keys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}