Most East Palo Alto homes are modest post-war houses on small lots, plus a lot of duplexes and apartments. Compact rooms, one bathroom, and no wasted space anywhere.
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MaidSimple offers house cleaning, priced up front, to homes in East Palo Alto, California. Cleaners are hired as employees, not contractors, run through a background check. Homes here are small by Peninsula standards, typically two or three bedrooms and one bath on a compact lot, with a high share of rentals, duplexes and apartment units. A lived-in home is about $299.85 per clean, and a small place takes fewer hours. The city’s residential ZIP is 94303.
Almost everything residential in this city went up between 1945 and 1965, when the area filled in fast with small single-family houses on lots of five thousand square feet or less. The Gardens and Palo Alto Park are typical: two or three bedrooms, one bath, a detached garage at the back, and a kitchen you can cross in two steps. Later decades added duplexes, fourplexes and larger apartment complexes, particularly around Woodland Park and University Village.
That mix shapes how people book. There are plenty of multi-generational households where the house is full and a monthly reset matters more than a weekly touch-up, and plenty of renters who need a move-out clean done properly so the deposit comes back. One bath and a tight floor plan means the visit is short, so the price sits at the bottom of our range rather than the middle.
The typical house is 900 to 1,300 square feet, single story, wood frame on a raised or slab foundation, with vinyl or sheet flooring in the kitchen and bath and carpet or laminate elsewhere. Kitchens are galley-sized and bathrooms are usually the original one. Many properties have been added onto at the back or converted to two units, so bedroom counts can be higher than the footprint suggests. Very few homes have stairs.
Real prices from the same engine behind the quote form above, not a range that moves once we see the place.
| How is it looking? | Time we plan | Per clean, recurring | Just this once |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kept upCleaned recently | 2 hrs | $199.90every week, 2 weeks or 4 weeks | $235.18 |
| Lived-inNormal life happens | 3 hrs | $299.85every week, 2 weeks or 4 weeks | $352.77 |
| It’s a messNo judgement, truly | 4 hrs | $399.80every week, 2 weeks or 4 weeks | $470.36 |
You pay for the time it takes: the hours we plan at $99.95 an hour for every recurring clean, or $117.59 an hour just once. Supplies and equipment included. Anything extra you tick — inside the oven, the fridge, baseboards in full — adds its time at the same rate, and a deeper clean or a move-out is simply more hours. Slide the hours before you book if you know your home better than we do.
The small things that decide whether a visit runs smoothly or runs late.
Lots here are narrow and street parking fills up in the evening, so the driveway is often holding two cars and a work van. If you can leave a car length free, or tell us where to pull in, the crew unloads once and gets started.
When a household of five shares a single bath, that room does the work of three. Grout, the tub surround, the extractor grille and the floor edges get more time here than they would in a house with three and a half baths and light use.
A good number of addresses in this city are two dwellings behind one number. Each unit is quoted on its own time, and if you want both done on the same visit, say so at booking so we hold enough time.
Every East Palo Alto address in 94303.
One rate, one standard. Pick the one that fits your week.
The whole-home refresh most East Palo Alto homes book: kitchens, bathrooms, floors, dusting and tidying.
How it works →Baseboards, inside appliances, grout and vents — the same clean with more hours, at the same rate.
How it works →Empty-home cleaning for deposits and handovers — more hours, the same rate.
How it works →Weekly, every 2 weeks or every 4 weeks, at the advertised rate every clean.
How it works →Most cleaning companies send whoever is available that day. Our cleaners are our own background-checked, W-2 employees — which costs us more in payroll tax and workers’ comp, and is exactly why the standard holds: we employ them and dispatch them ourselves.
Every maid is on our payroll and background-checked before she sets foot in your home. If anything’s not right, tell us and we come back and put it right — you don’t pay twice.
The general FAQ covers access, supplies, rescheduling and paying.
Yes. Apartments, duplex halves and single rooms in shared houses are all standard bookings. Pricing comes off bedrooms and bathrooms, so a one-bedroom unit sits well below a three-bedroom house. If a landlord or property manager is arranging the clean, they can book it and we coordinate access with whoever is on site.
Yes, though post-construction work is quoted separately from a regular visit. Fine drywall and sanding dust settles in places routine cleaning does not reach, so the crew works top down through light fixtures, door frames, window tracks and vents before touching the floors. Tell us what the work involved and how recently it finished.
Less than a larger one, because the figure is built from your actual the time it takes rather than a citywide rate. A two-bed, one-bath house here is among the least expensive jobs we take. Put the real room count into the form above and the number that comes back is the number you pay.
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