Cleaning homes in Westwood
The academic calendar shows up plainly in the booking sheet. Late June and September fill with move-out and move-in work in the apartment blocks off Gayley, Landfair and Midvale, units where four people shared two bathrooms for a year with an oven nobody opened. Those are deep cleans rather than maintenance visits, and they get reserved against the lease dates instead of a week ahead.
The rest of the year looks nothing like it. Along the Wilshire Corridor the work is high-floor condominiums where the building, not the resident, sets the terms: insurance on file, a service lift booked, an entry through the back of house. North of the boulevard, Little Holmby and Comstock Hills hold 1920s and 1930s revival houses plus post-war architect-built homes with plaster, oak and coved ceilings that need a much slower pass.
Westwood homes, structurally
The large majority of households here rent, which makes this one of the densest apartment markets on the Westside. Stock nearest campus is 1950s through 1970s walk-ups and courtyard buildings: hard-wearing, small-roomed, heavily used. The Wilshire towers are the opposite, with generous floor plans, stone and wood floors, floor-to-ceiling glass and doorman entry. Between and above them sit several hundred substantial older houses on wide lots, with original woodwork and plaster that will not take aggressive products.