Cleaning Services

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My girlfriend is moving out of her apartment, and she's concerned that her landlord is going to try to keep an unreasonable amount of her deposit for "cleaning." This would be outrageous, since the apartment is spotless as is, but she's concerned about it, wants to spend an entire day cleaning the apartment after she moves out, and wants me to help.

I don't want to spend a day cleaning an already clean apartment only to have the landlord try to charge her for something anyway. I brought up the idea of paying a cleaning service to go over the apartment for us, which (1) would keep me from spending a day cleaning the apartment and (2) may give my girlfriend a stronger negotiating position if the landlord tries to get funny with the deposit.

Has anyone used one of these services? If so, how much do they usually charge? Anyone have a national chain or service in the Bay Area they've been happy with?

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