Practical help for every property transition.
Whether you're moving out, settling into a new home or preparing a property for sale, explore practical guides, checklists and tools designed to help you stay organised and understand what comes next.
Resources built around the whole property journey.
Cleaning is often only one part of moving, selling or handing over a property. Our Moving Resources are designed to help with the practical steps around the clean too — from planning and documentation to inspections, photography, moving day and final handover.
What are you preparing for?
Choose the stage that best matches where you are now and we'll help you work through the practical steps from there.
Leaving a property
Plan the move, prepare the property, understand the final inspection process and get organised for handover.
Explore moving-out resourcesStarting somewhere new
Make the most of an empty property, document its condition and get organised before the boxes and furniture arrive.
Explore move-in resourcesPreparing a property for market
Work through presentation, styling, photography, open homes and the practical stages between listing and settlement.
Explore selling resourcesPractical guides for the bigger picture.
Our cornerstone guides bring the major steps together before directing you to more detailed checklists and specialist resources.
The Complete Moving-Out Guide
From the weeks before moving day through to cleaning, key return and final inspection — one practical place to plan the entire handover.
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The Complete Move-In Guide
Condition reports, keys, cleaning, moving-day preparation and the practical jobs worth tackling before the home fills up.
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Property Sale Preparation Guide
Prepare for repairs, decluttering, cleaning, styling, photography, inspections and the transition through to settlement.
Open complete guideResources designed to be used, not just read.
Build personalised plans, save your progress, work through tasks on your phone and print or save the resources that make sense for your property journey.
Victorian Rental Condition Report Guide
Work through the entry condition report methodically, with a dedicated pathway for renters who have — or have not — received the formal report.
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Renter Pre-Handover Inspection Tool
Inspect what you're handing back, compare against entry condition, record observations and create your own renter pre-handover evidence record.
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Cleaning Issue or Property Condition?
Work through common shower glass, grout, mould, carpet, wall and surface issues to decide whether further cleaning may help or documentation is more appropriate.
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After the Final Inspection
Navigate cleaning feedback, rectification requests, damage claims, repair costs, written responses and the Victorian bond process after handover.
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Open Home Ready
Build a reusable inspection-day plan for occupied, vacant staged or vacant empty properties — including the refresh clean and presentation reset.
Build an open-home plan →Find the resource that matches your next step.
Start with a complete journey guide or jump directly into the specialist tool that matches the milestone you're dealing with now.
Prepare, document, hand over and protect your bond.
Practical guidance from planning the move through to final evidence, inspection feedback, rectification and the bond process.
Start organised before the boxes take over.
Plan the move, use the empty-property window well and document the starting condition properly before everyday life begins.
Prepare the campaign, maintain the presentation and keep moving forward.
Resources for the broader preparation phase, photography deadline, inspection-day resets and the realities of living through a sales campaign.
Useful whether you book ExitMaid or not.
Our resources draw on practical property cleaning, presentation and handover experience. Where a topic involves formal tenancy, legal or regulatory guidance, we aim to direct readers to the relevant official Victorian source rather than presenting cleaning advice as legal advice.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers to common questions about ExitMaid services and bookings.
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Property cleaning, handover documentation and rectification pathways designed around professional property workflows.
Explore Agent Services →Need help with the cleaning part of the journey?
Explore our specialist property cleaning services or tell us what you're preparing the property for and we'll help point you toward the right option.
