An empty house is a hard test. With no furniture and no clutter, every mark on a baseboard and every ring in a cabinet is visible from the doorway, and inspectors know exactly where to look.
Inside the kitchen appliances comes first. The oven, the refrigerator including the drawers and door seals, and the microwave are the three most commonly deducted items on any move-out inspection, and they are the three most commonly skipped by people cleaning their own place on the last day.
Then it is the insides: every cabinet, every drawer, every closet shelf and track. Wipe them out and vacuum the closet floors. An inspector opening a cabinet to find crumbs will open every other cabinet in the house.
After that, the horizontal edges. Baseboards, window sills, the tops of door frames, light fixtures and their bulbs, switch plates, and blinds. Blinds in particular are worth the extra fifteen minutes, since replacement is a line item most leases price generously in the landlord's favor.
Finish with the bathrooms down to the grout line and the floors detailed at the edges rather than just through the middle. If your landlord or property manager has their own checklist, ask for it before you start, or hand it to whoever you hire. Cleaning to their list rather than to a general idea of clean is the single thing that decides how much of the deposit comes back.