Greater Lansing area · Michigan
East Lansing, MI
East Lansing is a college city where about 62 percent of homes are rented, with historic houses, softened well water and rental rules that shape how a home changes hands.
How It Works
Select your home size and service type. Priced by the home, with no walkthroughs and no surprises.
Add your home to the opening list and TotalCare Cleaning will reach out when your area opens.
Your background-checked TotalCare Cleaning professional will arrive within your arrival window, fully equipped with all supplies and tools.
Every job follows the TotalCare Cleaning standard. Not right? Tell us with clear photos or video by the end of the day after the service was completed and we return, free.
Our Services
Recurring Cleaning · Biweekly or Weekly
A vetted professional every visit. The TotalCare Cleaning standard on every clean. The Hotel Finish detail every time.
From $138per visit · biweekly · 1-bed home
Join the Opening ListOne-Time · Full Restoration
Every baseboard. Every cabinet front. Every blind and vent. The TotalCare Cleaning One-Time Deep Clean is the full restoration clean that sets your home's baseline.
From $2791-bed home · supplies included
Learn About Deep CleaningOne-Time · Inspection-Ready
Inspection-ready. Built for buyers, sellers, landlords, and property managers who need the property clean to an objective, documentable standard.
From $3501-bed home · supplies included
Learn About Move-Out CleaningTrust & Safety
Every TotalCare Cleaning professional will be background-checked and screened before their first job in East Lansing.
✓ Background-checkedEvery TotalCare Cleaning house cleaning in East Lansing will be covered by $1,000,000 in general liability insurance. From hardwood floors to granite countertops and custom cabinetry, if anything is damaged during the clean, you are fully protected.
✓ Fully InsuredTotalCare Cleaning does not retain, copy, or transport house keys. Entry and access instructions are handled securely through our booking system. You control access to your East Lansing property at every step.
✓ Keys Stay HomeIf an area on your checklist was missed, report it in your customer portal or by email by the end of the day after your clean, with a photo, and a professional returns to re-clean that area at no charge. No forms, no friction, no arguments.
✓ Re-Clean GuaranteeWe will follow the same standard operating procedure on every single job in East Lansing. The TotalCare Cleaning standard is not a marketing claim. It is a documented, auditable procedure that governs every hour of work in your home.
Transparent Pricing
Priced by the home, not by the hour. Prices start at the amounts shown, from the current Lansing rate card, with supplies included.
| Home Size | Recurring (Bi-Weekly) | One-Time Deep Clean | One-Time Moving Clean (Move-Out) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Bed / 1 Bathabout 800 sq ft | starting at$138per visit | starting at$279 | starting at$350 |
| 2 Bed / 2 Bathabout 1,600 sq ft | starting at$204per visit | starting at$360 | starting at$440 |
| 3 Bed / 2 Bathabout 2,000 sq ft | starting at$229per visit | starting at$395 | starting at$480 |
| 4 Bed / 3 Bathabout 2,800 sq ft | starting at$308per visit | starting at$476 | starting at$570 |
| 5 Bed / 4 Bathabout 4,500 sq ft | starting at$441per visit | starting at$614 | starting at$727 |
Priced by the home, never by the hour. Prices start at the amounts shown; your exact price is set by your home. Home sizes assume the square footage shown, and a larger home, extra half baths or add-ons change the price.
Join the Opening List →East Lansing began on the college campus. Its first houses, Faculty Row, were built there in the 1850s, and in 1907 Collegeville and nearby neighborhoods were chartered as East Lansing. TotalCare Cleaning will service the city, including Bailey, Whitehills and the MSU campus area, and homes here will be priced by their size, not by the hour.
Many of the historic homes here keep the college Gothic look of early MSU buildings. They sit in a city that otherwise looks little like an ordinary suburb. About 62 percent of occupied homes are rented, about 41 percent of housing units are in buildings of 10 or more units, and only about 36 percent are single family detached. The median year built is 1975.
Neighborhoods have a say in that mix. They can petition to restrict rental licenses, and overlay districts have been adopted for areas including Old Whitehills, East and West Whitehills, Central Bailey, Brookfield and several parts of Glencairn.
An owner-occupied house and a rented apartment are very different jobs. The house suits a Recurring House Clean on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly plan, starting with an Initial Deep Clean, and older finishes get mild products and soft tools. The apartment is more likely to need a One-Time Moving Clean when a lease ends, adding inside the oven, refrigerator and cabinets once the furniture has gone.
Water here comes from wells in a deep sandstone aquifer and is treated to reduce hardness by the East Lansing-Meridian Water & Sewer Authority. The City of East Lansing describes the Saginaw Aquifer as about 100 to 370 feet thick. Reduced hardness does not mean none at all, so if you see film on shower glass or faucets, a deep clean will treat the glass and detail the fixtures.
An initial East Lansing rental license takes two to five months on average and includes an all-trades inspection, a commission hearing and a City Council decision. That makes a license worth protecting, and a clean between tenants is an easy part of keeping a property in good order.
Tenants follow Michigan's rule, under which a landlord claiming damages must mail an itemized list within 30 days after move-out. The move-out guide explains that timeline, and the inventory checklists that go with it.
The city's snow ordinance makes owners, landlords and renters clear adjacent sidewalks. Snow that falls before noon has to be cleared by midnight the same day, and snow after noon by midnight the next day. Ice calls for clearing, or salt, sand or another abrasive, within half a day of forming. Every grain of that salt and sand can come in on a shoe, so entry mats earn their keep through the winter. The winter cleaning guide has more on protecting floors.
Pricing follows the home, and the Lansing cost page shows every row.
Frequently Asked Questions
TotalCare Cleaning will service East Lansing and surrounding areas with background-checked cleaners and is insured up to $1 million. Re-clean guarantee: if we missed something, tell us by the end of the next day and we come back to fix it. Beyond Clean. TotalCare.
