Approval draftWhat began as a conversation about new resident-service revenue became a hands-on reset of a fragmented turnover process.
Hundreds
of cleanings coordinated
Engagement detail supplied by TIDY
Multi-market
Southern U.S. coverage
Limited lift
required from ARK’s internal team
Engagement detail supplied by TIDY
The story
From operational friction to coordinated action
The first conversation with ARK Homes For Rent was about growth: could TIDY help create an additional resident-service revenue stream through professional cleanings?
The immediate opportunity turned out to be more operational. TIDY inherited a turnover process in which scopes were inconsistent, status was difficult to see, and the people involved were not working from one shared view of what had—or had not—been completed.
With limited day-to-day support available from ARK’s internal team, TIDY helped turn that handoff into executable work across Southern markets. The focus was practical: clarify each request, coordinate the right professionals, and keep work moving until hundreds of cleanings were completed.
The challenge
The work existed. The operating rhythm did not.
Unclear scopes
Teams did not always have a dependable answer for what each turnover required, which made every downstream handoff harder.
Fragmented communication
Updates lived across people and conversations instead of one operating view, leaving status and ownership open to interpretation.
Multi-market execution
A large queue of cleaning work needed to move across several Southern markets without placing a new coordination burden on ARK.
The TIDY response
Make every request visible and executable
- 1
Turn incomplete handoffs into actionable scopes
TIDY worked through the details required to make each cleaning request understandable and ready to assign.
- 2
Coordinate professionals across markets
The team helped source and schedule cleaning capacity where ARK needed it, rather than expecting one local vendor model to fit every market.
- 3
Create a shared operational view
Requests, ownership, status, and completion could be followed in one place so fewer details disappeared between teams.
- 4
Stay with the work through completion
TIDY provided hands-on coordination as circumstances changed, helping the turnover queue move forward with limited internal lift.
Interior of an ARK Homes For Rent home. Image: ARK Homes For Rent
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“TIDY stepped into a difficult handoff, created structure quickly, and helped us get hundreds of cleanings completed across multiple markets—with very limited lift required from our team.”
Kimi Lee, ARK Homes For Rent
The outcome
A clearer path from open work to completed work
Hundreds of cleanings completed
A high-volume queue became coordinated work across multiple Southern markets.
Turnovers back on track
Clearer ownership and status helped restore an operating rhythm around time-sensitive property work.
A foundation for new services
The original resident-cleaning revenue idea could be revisited on top of a more dependable operational foundation.
What this story shows
Property operations do not always arrive as a clean implementation project. Sometimes the first job is to bring structure to an imperfect handoff. TIDY can combine software, a broad service network, and hands-on coordination to help a property team move from uncertainty to completed work.
Turn a messy turnover process into a clear operating system
TIDY helps property teams coordinate cleaning and maintenance across people, properties, and markets—without adding another spreadsheet to manage.