End of Lease & Pre-Sale Make-Ready
Complete turnaround of a property between tenancies or before it goes to market — interior and exterior. Repairs, cleaning, presentation and finish, managed as one job with one point of contact.
The short answer
PM Squad provides end of lease & pre-sale make-ready across Western Sydney and the lower Blue Mountains, from a base in Glenmore Park. Complete turnaround of a property between tenancies or before it goes to market — interior and exterior. Repairs, cleaning, presentation and finish, managed as one job with one point of contact.
- 33 suburbs across Western Sydney & the Blue Mountains
- Prompt replies. Itemised quotes
- Interior and exterior handled as one job
- Scoped directly from your exit or condition report
- Itemised pricing — strike out anything you don't want
- Repairs, cleaning, carpets, garden and rubbish in one visit sequence
Public liability insured, ABN registered. Request an itemised quote. Call 0494 301 215 or request a quote online.
A tenant moves out, an owner decides to sell, or a lease ends badly. Whichever it is, there's a list of things standing between the property and being ready to put back on the market. Repairs, a full clean, the garden, and the small cosmetic items that make the difference in a photograph. Most of the stress in that comes from trying to run four separate trades against a leasing or settlement date, where each one is waiting on the one before and none of them are talking to each other.
We take it as one job. Send us the condition report, the exit inspection, or just walk us through what you're after, and we come back with an itemised scope and a price against each line. You approve it, cut whatever you don't want, and we do the work in the right order. At the end you get a photo report showing each item closed out, which is usually what the owner wants to see before they'll sign off on the invoice.
The sequencing is the part people underestimate. Carpet cleaned before the painting is finished gets walked through with dust. A garden done a fortnight before the photos has grown back by the time the photographer arrives. Rubbish removal that happens last means every trade before it has been working around a pile in the driveway. Getting the order right is half of why a make-ready lands on time.
What's included
What a make-ready usually includes
Every property is different and you only pay for the lines you approve, but this is the shape of most of them.
- Clear-out — abandoned furniture, rubbish, anything left in the garage or under the house, green waste from the yard
- Repairs — wall patching, doors and door hardware, cupboard doors and drawer runners, fly screens, blinds, fencing and gates, the long list of small faults on the exit report
- Walls and paint — patch and touch-up, or a full repaint of the high-traffic areas where touch-up would just look like patches
- Interior clean — full bond or presentation standard, including oven, range hood, bathrooms, tracks and windows
- Carpets — steam cleaned and stain treated once everything dusty is finished, with a receipt for the file
- Garden and exterior — mow, edge, hedges, weeds cleared, mulch topped up, green waste taken away
- Pressure washing — driveway, paths, entry and any exterior that photographs badly
- Presentation — the small items that lift a listing photo: new tapware washers so nothing drips, a working light in every socket, gates that shut, a letterbox that isn't hanging off
Between tenancies
The number that matters here is days vacant, and it's usually worth spending a bit more to lose a week less. We quote against your target lease date and tell you at the quote whether it's achievable rather than agreeing and letting you find out on the day.
For property managers the report at the end tends to do a lot of work. It's structured against your exit report, so you can reconcile it line by line, forward it to the owner as justification for the spend, and attach the relevant photos to a bond claim without rewriting anything. Where an item on the exit report is fair wear and tear rather than tenant damage, we'll say so — it's not our call to make, but you'd rather have the opinion than not.
Before a sale
Pre-sale is a different job to a rental turnaround, because the question changes from "is this compliant" to "what will this return". Not everything is worth doing.
The things that reliably pay for themselves are the ones a buyer notices in the first thirty seconds: the front of the house, the entry, the state of the lawn and driveway, and whether the interior smells and looks maintained. The things that generally don't are the ones a buyer will change anyway — a new kitchen benchtop, feature tiling, or a renovation half-finished under pressure.
We'll give you a straight opinion on which lines are worth keeping in the scope, including the ones we'd cut. Timing matters too: the garden and the pressure washing want to happen the week of the photos, not a month before, and the carpets go in the last couple of days.
Who books this
Common questions
How fast can you turn a property around?
Depends entirely on the scope, but we quote against your date and tell you up front whether it's achievable. A cosmetic turnaround is days. Anything involving flooring, a repaint or waiting on materials is longer. We'd rather say no than agree to a leasing deadline we're going to miss.
Can you work from our exit inspection report?
Yes, in whatever format you already use. We scope against it item by item and report back in the same structure, so nothing needs re-entering on your side and the owner can follow it without a phone call.
Do we have to take the whole quote?
No. It comes itemised precisely so you can cut lines. Plenty of owners approve two thirds of it, and some come back for the rest after the property leases. We won't pad a scope to make it look thorough.
Who pays — the owner or the tenant's bond?
That's between you, the owner and the tenant, and not our call. What we can do is scope and photograph it in a way that makes the distinction clear, so what's tenant damage and what's fair wear and tear are separate lines rather than one lump sum nobody can argue from.
Can you do it while the property is still occupied?
Some of it. Gardens, exterior work and most repairs are fine around a tenant. Painting, carpets and the full clean want the place empty. We'll usually split it into a before and after so the vacant window stays as short as possible.
Make-Ready Works by suburb
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Public liability insured and ABN registered (72 995 846 975). Certificates available on request. Where a job requires a licensed trade — electrical, plumbing, gas or structural — we identify it up front and refer it rather than attempting it ourselves.
From quote to completion
Here's the part people stick around for — you always know what's happening, what it costs, and what got done.
You'll know the price before we start
We look at the job and send back a quote with a price against each thing. Nothing turns up on the invoice that wasn't on the quote, so there's nothing awkward to explain to an owner later.
Photos when it's done
Before and after shots land in your inbox on completion. Forward them straight to the owner — you won't have to chase us for an update.
Send us your list as it is
Repair request, condition report, defect list, whatever you've already got. We work through it and report back the same way, so you're not re-typing anything.
One person, one invoice
Combine repairs and maintenance in one booking, with one point of contact and an itemised invoice.
Let's Talk About Your Portfolio
Send your defect list or condition report, including any target dates. We'll review the scope and let you know the next steps.