Short-term rental reviews live and die on cleanliness, and guests form the judgment fast. They look at the bed, then the bathroom, then the kitchen. Everything else gets graded against the impression those three make.
A turnover is not a small clean, it's a full reset on a deadline. Between an 11 AM checkout and a 3 PM check-in there's time for one pass, which means it has to be sequenced rather than improvised: strip linens first so laundry runs while the rest of the unit is cleaned, then bathrooms, then kitchen, then floors last on the way out the door.
Hotel-standard linens are the single highest-leverage detail. Guests notice hair, they notice creases, and they notice a mattress protector that has shifted. Having a second set of linens on hand costs less than one bad review and removes laundry from the critical path entirely.
Restocking is where most self-managed turnovers slip. Paper goods, soap, dish supplies, coffee, and trash bags each seem trivial until one is missing at 9 PM. Give your cleaner a fixed restock list and a place where supplies live, and it stops being a decision anyone has to make.
Finally, ask for photos after every turnover. Damage and left-behind items are far easier to resolve with a timestamped photo taken before the next guest arrives than with a memory two bookings later. We send them as standard because it protects the host and it protects us.