A turf turnover checklist for Grand Strand vacation rentals

1. Premium Restoration after pine pollen ends and before the first peak booking. It removes the pollen layer before summer humidity turns it into algae and odor.
2. Infill measured in the paths and the pet zone, topped up if low. A rental yard gets a summer of foot traffic in a few weeks.
3. Seam and edge walk. A raised seam is a trip hazard and a review; fix it in May.
4. Putting green top-dressed and speed-checked, if there is one.
5. Furniture feet checked. Chairs and loungers dragged across turf mat it; pads or a paver patio for the furniture saves brushing all summer.
6. A sign in the unit: no grills or fire pits on the turf, pick up after pets, hose is by the gate.
7. Photos of the yard on the day of the clean, for the listing and for the file.

The turnover crew is already there. Ten minutes on the turf is the difference between a yard that goes all season and one that needs a mid-season rescue.

Put the ten minutes on the turnover checklist as its own line, with the report items as tick boxes. A cleaner who is asked to "check the yard" will look at it; a cleaner who is asked to "hose the pet zone and photograph any melt marks" will do it.

Pet-friendly rentals in July and August usually need one thing between the pre-season clean and the fall: a pet spot treatment at $50 to $100 on the zone the dogs use, booked the day a cleaner reports a smell. Waiting for the next turnover is how one bad review becomes three. People-only rentals rarely need anything mid-season if the ten minutes is being done.

Hurricane season runs June through November and peaks in September, in the middle of the fall rental weeks. The order after a storm is fixed: heavy debris and branches off first, then blow off the loose material, then walk the edges and seams for anything that floated, then flush salt spray and windblown sand through the infill. The flush has to happen within about two weeks, before the salt dries into a crust and the sand settles into the fiber base. The post-storm visit is an Essential Clean band job on a yard that was only sprayed and an antimicrobial job on one that flooded. The turnover cleaner does the first two steps; we do the rest.

An 800-square-foot pet-friendly rental: pre-season Premium Restoration $399, one post-storm Essential Clean $249, and say one mid-season spot treatment at $100, about $748 for the year. The TIMELESS ELITE membership at $139 a month, $1,668 a year, buys four Premium Restorations with priority scheduling and 10% off repairs and add-ons. Four Premiums bought one at a time on this 800-square-foot yard come to $1,596, slightly less than the membership, so here ELITE makes sense for a pet-friendly unit that books solidly and needs a visit every quarter, for the priority booking and the add-on discount rather than a lower price. On a rental yard over 1,000 square feet it also costs less than four separate visits. A people-only unit that needs two visits is cheaper paid per visit. Our frequency guide helps you decide which you have.

Call in May for the pre-season visit, the day a cleaner reports a smell, and the day after a storm. Pre-season cleans start at $299 for a Premium Restoration on yards up to 500 square feet and $399 for 501 to 1,000; post-storm visits start at $199. Property managers with several units get one calendar and one invoice.