 Garbage debate! (by Sharon [CT]) Oct 13, 2020 10:10 PM
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Garbage debate! (by Sharon [CT]) Oct 13, 2020 10:10 PM
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So me and my husband disagree on something and I told him I was going to put it out there to see what other landlords have to say about it. I think I am right but let's see. We have one rental property it is a three family. Every Tuesday evening my husband realizes he has to visit the property to put out everyone's garbage out for the next day when they come to pick it up. I told him he should not be doing that each tenant should put their own garbage at the street. This is written in their lease and he keeps doing it. We have two new tenants for two apartments and one tenants who has been there a while but never had to do it because he does it. I told them all that each week they have to put out garbage Tuesday night. He still is going to do it. He said they won't do it and that it is our responsibilty as the landlord. I do not agree. He is sick tonight and realized he had to drive over there to put out garbage and asked me if I could do it. I told him I reminded the tenants and he said it's our responsibility. I texted both tenants that said they put garbage out but he still needed to check. He comes from NY where fines are issued but we are in CT and he also worries about attracting bugs but he needs to give the tenants a chance, they will do it. So what do you all think. I dont think we should be doing it.
--32.213.xxx.xx |
Garbage debate! (by NE [PA]) Oct 13, 2020 10:15 PM
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Hide his keys next Tuesday. --70.44.xxx.xx |
Garbage debate! (by Ken [NY]) Oct 13, 2020 10:18 PM
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The tenants should be doing it assuming they are decent people,it might not get done tonight because they have become accustomed to him doing it. --72.231.xxx.xxx |
Garbage debate! (by Landlord ofthe Flies [TX]) Oct 13, 2020 10:22 PM
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Does he pay their rent when they're short too? Mow their lawn? Your hubby needs to be leashed. He's doing the opposite of training. --108.69.xxx.xxx |
Garbage debate! (by Jerry [MA]) Oct 13, 2020 10:30 PM
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As long as each unit has its own trash can, the tenants should be putting them out each week. If you are feeling generous, you can set up an automatic reminder message to be sent to the tenants the night before. --71.233.xxx.xx |
Garbage debate! (by Dee Ann [WI]) Oct 13, 2020 10:45 PM
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My husband and I are having the same disagreement about garbage...in the fall the disagreement extends to leaf raking too. He spends a whole day after Thanksgiving to rake leaves if they haven't been raked by tenants already. So he is teaching the tenants that if they don't do something, he will get it done. --75.11.xx.xx |
Garbage debate! (by FloridaNative [FL]) Oct 13, 2020 10:49 PM
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It is a tenant responsibility to put out their own garbage. No question.
--68.104.xxx.xxx |
Garbage debate! (by #22 [MO]) Oct 13, 2020 10:54 PM
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are you retired? It might be something that gives him a sense of purpose. To answer your question, no he shouldn't be doing this, that is, unless he gets needed purpose from it. --174.234.xxx.xxx |
Garbage debate! (by Sharon [CT]) Oct 13, 2020 11:17 PM
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No, he is not retired in fact he usually is tired when he realizes "oh now I have to go over there" and since I am not working right now,he asks me to go. This is the first time in years I am not working full time and in school due to corona, he thinks I should do it. I have filled up my day with doing so much stuff around my house, homeschooling my 12 year old son and managing the rental stuff. Even so I will not do it to make a point. --32.213.xxx.xx |
Garbage debate! (by Robert J [CA]) Oct 14, 2020 12:21 AM
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I have a ton of buildings that have individual trash cans, provided by the City, for each tenant's use. One Black bin for common trash, one blue bin for recyclables for each tenant. Then one green yard clippings bin for each building.
On my larger buildings I have the manager move out and back in each bin each week. On properties without a resident manager, I pay someone to put and and take back in the trash bins.
On Sunday a neighbor that I pay to put out the trash for 2 buildings I own on that block died, so yesterday I had to take out the trash cans myself. Before I had a tenant in each building do the trash, but one died and another moved away.
For my SFR and Duplex, in the lease I have a tenant do the trash, or have my gardener take out the trash an I have a tenant take back in the empty cans. --47.155.xx.xxx |
Garbage debate! (by Hoosier [IN]) Oct 14, 2020 1:45 AM
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What was your husband’s occupation during his career? Was he a sanitation worker?
Stop enabling them. As.a matter of fact, next lease you sign should have a clause that failure to take garbage out weekly results in $10 fine because it can draw bugs and animals. --99.92.xxx.xxx |
Garbage debate! (by Lynn [MA]) Oct 14, 2020 7:20 AM
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We did used to take it out for over 20 years and when COVID hit we said no more and now the tenants take the trash out and bring the barrels back in. If they don't then then know that they will have no room to in their trash for a week. It's been working great, we'll see how it goes when it snows out. --66.30.xx.xx |
Garbage debate! (by WMH [NC]) Oct 14, 2020 9:12 AM
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We have houses in two counties. In one county, the cities provide trash cans. We make sure they are on site when lease begins and that's it. If one gets lost or broken, Tenant pays $125 replacement (heavy duty cans.)
In the other county, trash services are not provided at all. We have several free transfer stations where you can haul your own trash, and that's what the renters do. Or they take it to work with them, I'm told.
My husband hauls our trash (because we live in the no-trash pick-up county) and he also takes our downstairs tenant's trash just because it's right there and he can. It's just a courtesy.
If people are too irresponsible to put their can out and take it in, they are too irresponsible to rent my $$$$$ properties. --50.82.xxx.xxx |
Garbage debate! (by S i d [MO]) Oct 14, 2020 9:21 AM
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If you had 1,000 units, would hubby says it still be your responsibility?
The number of units is irrelevant, but "scaling" the number of units should help work thru the thought process. 1 unit or 10,000 units: the answer is the same, but one scenario creates more emotional/physical anxiety than the other and clarifies what your responsibilities truly, and that is "whatever we agreed to in the lease." --107.216.xxx.xxx |
Garbage debate! (by David [MI]) Oct 14, 2020 9:21 AM
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Both my own home and my rentals have the massive 95 gal trash bin AND 95 gal recycle bin. The recycling is only picked up every other week, so I got smart and only put out the trash bin when the recycling is also picked up. I hope my tenants are as smart in the winter!
--50.4.xxx.x |
Garbage debate! (by RB [MI]) Oct 14, 2020 9:29 AM
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Tell yer husband to stop acting like a guverment program.
Small wonder why there are so many NEEDY people in the
world. (Immature people walking around in mature bodies)
Being self-sufficient should be a screening requirement. --199.192.xxx.x |
Garbage debate! (by Smokowna [MD]) Oct 14, 2020 9:56 AM
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Your 12 year old son should be doing it.
I move the trash on a few of my shacks, for the others I can not.
I don't worry if your husband does it or not, He does it for whatever benefit he sees. I would not challenge him. He is there once a week to observe the property, he protects the property from fines.
If he is sick, or busy, he need not go. The teni will see that he does something he does not have to on a regular basis. If they notice, they may stay longer.
If you have people lining up to rent the apartments, simply tell the teni that their lease will be terminated if they fail to put out and and bring in the trash receptacles on a schedule determined by the city.
I never trust teni to rake leaves or cut grass. Putting equipment in the hands of tenants seems very trampoline to me.
--108.28.xx.xxx |
Garbage debate! (by Sharon [CT]) Oct 14, 2020 10:14 AM
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I appreciate all of these responses. Thanks
I love the clause that says $10 fine for not putting out garbage. I this it's a deterrent if anything! Most of all this clarifies things for me
I shared responses with hubby. He didn't say anything which usually means he is realizing he us doing too much
Honestly I have good tenants but why do something if someone else is. --32.213.xxx.xx |
Garbage debate! (by Sharon [CT]) Oct 14, 2020 10:14 AM
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I appreciate all of these responses. Thanks
I love the clause that says $10 fine for not putting out garbage. I this it's a deterrent if anything! Most of all this clarifies things for me
I shared responses with hubby. He didn't say anything which usually means he is realizing he us doing too much
Honestly I have good tenants but why do something if someone else is. --32.213.xxx.xx |
Garbage debate! (by Allym [NJ]) Oct 14, 2020 10:34 AM
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I put garbage and recycling out for two four units adjacent to each other for years. It was self defense against having to pick up stinky day old garbage along the side of the building after the critters got to it. He knows what he is doing. Let him do it. It also will count toward the hours a LL spends hands on which I understand will impact our taxes. --71.104.xx.xxx |
Garbage debate! (by Allym [NJ]) Oct 14, 2020 10:36 AM
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I put garbage and recycling out for two four units adjacent to each other for years. It was self defense against having to pick up stinky day old garbage along the side of the building after the critters got to it. He knows what he is doing. Let him do it. It also will count toward the hours a LL spends hands on which I understand will impact our taxes. --71.104.xx.xxx |
Garbage debate! (by Robin [WI]) Oct 14, 2020 1:25 PM
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No way would I put out their garbage for them. If they don't put it out themselves, there will be immediate, natural consequences that will occur without you having to lift a finger. I agree with the others--if they're not competent enough to take out the trash, they're not competent enough to live in one of my properties. Sheesh--that's a job my kids were doing when they were 8! --104.230.xxx.xx |
Garbage debate! (by Nicole [PA]) Oct 14, 2020 1:48 PM
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While I agree 100% that tenants should be putting their own trash out, I wouldn't fuss w/husband about it. Everyone has different ideas of what "should" be done in life.
I wash dishes once a day. I don't dry dishes - they sit in the dish rack until morning. I know folks who get a drink of water, wash, dry & put the glass back in the cupboard.
Some folks fold underwear in the drawer - others have a jumbled mess.
Some folks pick up grass clippings, some mulch, some allow it to lay in a mess on the sidewalks.
If he thinks it's important, so what. --72.70.xxx.xx |
Garbage debate! (by Vee [OH]) Oct 14, 2020 6:32 PM
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Which apartment does he want to share with the renter, pack him a few weeks of clothes with a half gallon of milk, something will be rotten when the milk expires.... --76.188.xxx.xxx |
Garbage debate! (by Hollis [MA]) Oct 15, 2020 8:06 AM
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I agree your husband is either trying to contribute (erroneous in my opinion to the rental business,or trying to find a sense of purpose, or just being a martyr.
Should never have been done in the first place but now you might use the pandemic to old tenants. "we now can no longer put out trash cans due to trying to keep down visits. You will have to put them out your self, Please remember this date and put them on your calendar"
Yeah for a few months you might send them post card reminders a few day before, just to get them accustomed to doing it.
In over 30 years and 100s of tenants, I have never put out a trash can. --96.236.xxx.xxx |
Garbage debate! (by plenty [MO]) Oct 15, 2020 8:16 AM
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I have a condo. Within the condo fee is the service to take out trash from parking garage to the dumpster. I must say this is a huge plus over other condos for rent or buy. However a service comes and does this not a residents husband. Are you getting top dollar plus for rent? Are the units hard to rent without this service? Does this service give your units an advantage over other units? Are you advertising this benefit in your advertising? Is this service listed in your lease agreement? Ask hubby to search his intention -- if he is doin this out of FEAR or obligation of lease agreement or to be of service or help to you. It's certain awesone if him. With two new move ins that would be a perfect time to make a shift. If discontinuing the service i would give them 30 days change notice. That the service is stopping. Then i would make dinner reservations or sign up for a class or some obligation every Tuesday night until hubby establishes a new mindset. --99.203.xxx.xxx |
Garbage debate! (by Ray-N-Pa [PA]) Oct 16, 2020 8:58 AM
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Let your husband know that he isn't taking my trash out and I am still waiting --24.101.xxx.xx |
Garbage debate! (by Nellie [ME]) Oct 16, 2020 10:02 PM
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Our tenants have always taken their own cans to the curb. And usually bring them back, too.... --64.222.xxx.xxx |
Garbage debate! (by Adam [CT]) Oct 16, 2020 10:24 PM
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I have several 3 family houses in New Britain and for one of those I have an agreement where I give the 2nd floor tenant a $300.00 gift certificate to Walmart around Christmas time in exchange for her taking our and putting back the trash cans. It works out great because I have the trash taken care all year and know that my gift card is going to pay for some nice Christmas gifts for 3 lower income household kids. --67.186.xxx.xx |
Garbage debate! (by Steve [MA]) Oct 17, 2020 7:02 AM
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This morning as a result of their being a 1 day delay for rubbish collections due to Monday's holiday, I'm going to do something I haven't done in years bring in the barrels at several multi family properties. Joey who usually puts out & brings in the trash & recycle barrels has to leave early today to attend his sister's funeral.
--71.174.xxx.xx |
Garbage debate! (by mike [CA]) Oct 17, 2020 1:44 PM
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let the folks know that you have an exciting new service you are offering...THEIR trash to THEIR curb! the fee is $xx/week
let them know it is not mandatory but rather a special "trash concierge" service for their convenience. good news, the many prior visits were complimentary!
as big boys and girls it is preferrred that they do it, but let them know that if they miss a week it is allowable 1x per 3 month period. and if they miss more than 1 in a row there will be a special service fee to remove their amassed 2 weeks of garbage. can't have that trash piling up.
or just raise the rent so it makes it worth hubby's time and be done with it. --76.95.xxx.xxx |
Garbage debate! (by Cjo’h [CT]) Oct 17, 2020 5:02 PM
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Here in New Haven Connecticut,I have no idea who puts out the trash all I know is I don’t ,nor wont,even if it never gets done,.............................charlie....all I know is I don’t want to do anything anymore and back in Ireland all the trash was ploughed under , so over time it decomposed and that was the end of it................ --32.214.xxx.xx |
Garbage debate! (by RentsDue [MA]) Oct 17, 2020 7:23 PM
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Oh he!! NO. --75.133.xxx.xx |
Garbage debate! (by Cjo’h [CT]) Oct 19, 2020 2:04 PM
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Sharon,don’t know where you are in Connecticut but I’m looking forward to seeing you at our annual Feis and Field Day next year on the third Sunday in June unless this stupidity is still in existence If it is ,we’ll just play it by ear and let the chips fall where they may?.....................charlie --32.214.xxx.xx |
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