When Renew Property Wash signs on with an apartment complex, its owner gives that property his full attention. “Whenever I take on apartment complexes, I like to focus on just that client,” Tyler Acree says.
The reasoning is quality. Working one complex at a time lets him make sure the job is done right and without issues. Equipment trouble is a side concern, about 5 percent of his worry by his own estimate, and the kind every business owner has to plan for. He has redundancies in place that keep problems rare.
Apartment complexes and parking garages are the core of the Hampton company now. On a complex, the work runs from building exteriors and sidewalks to breezeways, stairwells and dumpster pads, as Renew’s own service pages lay it out. In garages and lots, the job is oil stains and debris. Siding and roofs get a soft wash, which relies on low-pressure water and cleaning agents rather than force. The jobs are not all close to home. In a reply to one customer’s review, the company mentions soft washing an apartment complex in Roanoke.
He does some residential work too, “a little bit,” he says. The crew is Acree and two other people. He has no partners. For equipment, he has two trucks and, in his words, “tons and tons of trailers.”
Acree started the company in 2020, and Virginia’s business registry shows the LLC formed that year. By then he had been in the industry for more than 20 years. The business began on glass. “We originally started off with high-rise window cleaning,” he says, “and now I’m focusing on parking garages and apartment complexes.”
That commercial focus has made him a resource for others in the trade. He says other pressure washing companies in the area come to him with their harder questions, though he won’t name them. He isn’t trying to brag, he says, and he doesn’t want to put anyone on the spot. “Anytime they have any big commercial questions, they call me,” he says.
He has no plan to build the company up for a sale. “I’m not under any illusion with a service-based business that I’m ever going to be able to sell this and be able to retire,” he says. “I really don’t care about that.”
He says he was featured in a 2025 issue of American Window Cleaner magazine. “It is up on the wall,” he says. “I think it’s hilarious.”