A turnover is not a regular house cleaning with fresh sheets thrown on. It is a reset against a clock, with a guest checking in that same afternoon. Miss a detail and it shows up in your next review.
Most Houston short-term rentals run an 11am checkout and a 3pm or 4pm check-in. That leaves a four to five hour window to strip beds, wash and remake, clean every room, restock, stage, and photograph. On back-to-back bookings there is no slack.
What a real turnover includes
- Strip and remake every bed with fresh linens, corners tucked, pillows staged
- Full bathroom reset: towels, toiletries, mirrors, floors, and a fresh paper roll
- Kitchen: dishes done or run, counters cleared, coffee and basics restocked
- Trash out, recycling sorted, bins relined
- Staging back to the listing photos so the space matches what the guest booked
- A photo check of every room before the cleaner leaves
The photo check is the part hosts underrate. It gives you a record that the place was guest-ready, and it settles disputes before a guest can invent one.
Why the schedule breaks without automation
The hard part of turnovers is not the cleaning. It is the coordination. A booking changes, a guest checks out late, a same-night reservation lands, and a cleaner who was not told shows up to an occupied unit or misses the window entirely.
Tosh syncs directly with your Airbnb or VRBO calendar. When a checkout posts, the turnover books itself for that date, a checklist built for your property goes to the assigned cleaner, and you get a notification. No group texts, no spreadsheet, no forgotten unit in Midtown while you are out of town.
What it costs in Houston
Turnovers with Tosh start at $119 and follow the size of the unit and the add-ons you want, like laundry or restocking. A one-bedroom loft downtown and a four-bedroom in Cypress are not the same job, so the price follows the property.
For hosts running more than one listing, recurring turnovers lock in the cleaner and the schedule. That is what keeps your calendar open and your reviews clean.
Getting started
Connect your listing calendar once and the turnovers run on their own. We cover West Houston, Katy, Fulshear, Brookshire, and the surrounding area, with same-day availability when a booking surprises you.