Your common areas, cleaned on a schedule and logged every visit.
Day porter and janitorial service for HOA common areas — trash and recycling, restrooms, breezeways, the mail room, the pool deck and pressure washing. Post what you need cleaned and how often, and insured companies send you priced proposals.
- Insurance verified before a company can bid
- Every visit time-stamped, with a photo
- You set the areas and the frequency
Six stops, drawn to scale.
The gaps are proportional, so the long stretch out to the trash enclosure looks long. Your community sets the stops and the order.
A morning of porter service, 6:15 to 7:32
e.g.One morning of porter service as it was recorded: six stops, starting at the front entrance at 6:15am and finishing at the playground and courts at 7:32am. The stops and their order belong to this community — agreed with its porter, and changed whenever the community changes them. The times are when each stop was recorded, not a rate: janitorial work is quoted on the property, its common areas and how often the crew comes, never per stop or per minute.
- 6:15aFront entrance
Litter picked, beds edged
- 6:28aMailboxes+13m
Wiped down, recycling pulled
- 6:40aClubhouse+12m
Floors, glass, restrooms
- 7:05aPool deck+25m
Furniture reset, deck hosed
- 7:20aTrash enclosure+15m
Swept, pad pressure washed
- 7:32aPlayground and courts+12m
Surface checked, cans emptied
Example schedule. The stops and their order are your scope — a company puts a pattern forward, you accept it on your calendar, and from that day it is what a missed visit is measured against.
Where the round goes
Front entranceLitter picked, beds edged. ClubhouseFloors, glass, restrooms. Pool deckFurniture reset, deck hosed. Playground and courtsSurface checked, cans emptied.
What your porter turns in after every visit.
The route and the bag count are both mandatory on the report, so a morning that skipped the playground shows up as one.
Sample record
Porter service
Wed 7:41 AM
6:15 AM – 7:41 AM(1h 26m)
Recorded this visit
- Routes walked
- 6
- Trash bags
- 14
- Receptacles
- 22
- Bulk items
- 1
- Pressure wash
- Yes
- Issues
- 1 open
Vendor insurance verified before this vendor could bid the work.
Four numbers on a single porter visit.
Each one comes off the report your porter submits, and the first two have to be filled in before the visit can be closed out.
- Mandatory report fields
- 2
- The route and the bag count, on every single visit.
- Photo, minimum
- 1
- A visit cannot be closed without a photo of the finished work.
- Stops on the example above
- 6
- That morning, end to end
- 77min
One scope out. Four answers back.
Companies answer in the order they arrive, and they answer differently. Your board reads all four side by side and signs one.
Example — one scope, four answers
A worked example of the comparison view. One published porter scope — six common areas, three visits a week — draws four proposals from companies whose insurance has been verified. They differ in how often they come, who they send and what the work covers: two visits a week with a rotating porter, three visits with the same two-person crew, two visits plus storm callouts, and three visits with quarterly pressure washing. Each company sends its own price alongside those terms. The board reads all four side by side, signs one, and contracts with that company directly.
You publish one scope
Porter service — 6 common areas, 3 visits a week
Trash and recycling · restrooms · breezeways · mail room · pool deck · playground
Vetted companies answer itin the order they arrive
Ridgeline Facility Co.
Insurance verified
- Visits
- Twice a week, Mon and Thu
- Crew
- One porter, rotating
- Includes
- Trash, restrooms, breezeways
Bluestem Building Care
Insurance verified
- Visits
- Three times a week
- Crew
- Same two-person crew
- Includes
- All of the above, plus the mail room
Harborline Janitorial
Insurance verified
- Visits
- Twice a week, plus after storms
- Crew
- One porter, rotating
- Includes
- Trash, restrooms, storm debris
Cedar Gate Services
Insurance verified
- Visits
- Three times a week
- Crew
- Two porters, rotating
- Includes
- All of the above, plus quarterly pressure washing
Your board weighs the schedule, the crew and what each price covers, then signs one. You contract with them directly.
Each company sets its own price and sends it with its proposal, so the number arrives beside the schedule, the crew and the inclusions above. Sales tax and payment processing are their own line items on the invoice. Companies and scopes here are an illustration.
Put your common areas out to bid in about two minutes.
Enter the address and tick the areas that need cleaning. A free account publishes the scope, and insured companies send back priced proposals.
Free to publish. Each company prices your scope itself and sends the number with its proposal.
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