What percentage of your tenants who vacate, leave behind worthless junk for you to dispose of? I am referring all of the junk tenants buy at Walmart, use it once or twice and then leave at the property after they have vacated. How do you dispose of it? --71.207.xxx.x

99% / i call a one time junk guy whom I randomly choose from Craigslist to pickup and I pay them and take it out of the security deposit. On occasion I will use the regular trash service taking the metal to recycling. BUT i do not want this stuff sitting at the property for more than a day or two. It just looks bad and could attract a break in or something negative. EACH time I ask "why do they think they can do this?" take your junk with you, start getting rid of it when you give notice and why do you think it's ok to leave it? baffled every time. I keep calling junk guys on CL until one is available to come TODAY and NOW or before the end of the day. --172.58.xxx.xx

I recently rented to two international students from France who are working at the local university. The rooms are furnished with beds, bureaus, bedding and they were so appreciative as a non furnished room would have been difficult. --68.191.xx.xxx

Almost always departing tenants leave junk behind, despite written instructions to remove everything they have brought into and onto the property. Most common items are outdoor stuff, like planter pots, children's plastic junk toys, tires, televisions, paint from unauthorized paint jobs, mismatched clothes hangers and weird cleaning supplies from dollar general. --174.196.xxx.xxx

Most of the time in class c rentals i get a load or less of a pickup load. I buy a lot of foreclosures and almost everyone has a 30 yard dumpster full of stuff left behind,just won an auction last week and i bet there is 2-3 30 yard dumpsters of stuff.It is an estate and the guy must have died and everything is left,pills,couch everything,what a mess,i dont even think his kids picked through the place --74.77.xx.xx

I am lucky (or unlucky) enough to live on a main street with my rentals behind me. When tenants leave stuff, I just lug it out to the curb and put a FREE sign on it. Usually everything (even stuff that looks crappy) is gone within an hour. Worked for mega years. I also put out MY old stuff and neighbors are so happy to gather it all up. One guy actually compiled all the leftover cardboard boxes and made me a neat pile over night. Nice. Only works if people drive by all the time on the way to shopping centers. Don't have to pay to get rid of it or call the trash company to pick it up. --174.65.xxx.xx

They did leave my first ever piano though. That one was a problem. That beast must have weighed 1000 pounds. It was in the garage and it took two of us to slide it out onto the driveway. I put it on FB and Craigslist for free for over a week hoping someone would haul it off. Lots of inquiries, several stopped by but no one had a trailer (it was too big for a pickup) and enough strong backs to load it. After a week I gave up and salvaged some good walnut boards that I'll use in my shop and sledge hammered out about 400 pounds of cast iron that will go to the scrapper. What was left went in the dumpsters. Who knew a piano would be such a problem. --209.205.xxx.xx

The most usual item left behind was a full real skeleton in a simple pine coffin. He was an artist & use it for his drawing. --71.184.xxx.xxx

I have none or very little. In my move out instructions I advise all junk-trash will removed by a JUNK company and charged against their SD. Minimum charge is $100.00. --99.23.xxx.x

I measure junk left behind by the # of pick-up truck loads it takes to get all of the debris to the county dump, which is just 3 miles away. Most of the stuff my tenants leave behind not even the scavengers will take it. Used tires, car batteries, motor oil, and tons of filthy unwashed clothes. Bag it up and throw it in the truck. --71.207.xxx.x

Roy,junk batteries can be sold at a scrap yard or i have my guys take them to Auto zone and they give me a gift card for them. --74.77.xx.xx

It took me three years to sell my mother's gorgeous antique piano. But I finally got $400 for it. They are like $25,000 new. :( My fingers are too stubby for piano or guitar. So of course in Jr High band they gave me the bass fiddle! I quit and joined the choir. Much easier to tranport a voice. ;) --47.216.xxx.xxx

I had one lady leave a large piano lol…took 3 guys to load into truck. I got her to text me that she didn’t want it and had no place to put it…so we took it to city dump. --99.92.xxx.xxx

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Clothes if can be washed can be donated to the clothing bins. Hwe only what is not recycleed can be placed out for garbage day. Plastic, glass, metal cans, paper must be put in blue box or clear plastic bag. Often what is not broken is donated. Dishes, clean clothing can be donated to Salvation Army. A lead acid battery can be taken to a scrape metal as they pay for old lead acid batteries. Here they give a reduction if old battery is returned when buying a new car battery. E waste or smaller batteries can be thrown with regular garbage. There is a limit of two clear bags of regular garbage where keep until next week then over a few weeks will clear up everything. So far avoided to the waste trensfer station. Here those who live multi residentail housing do not care about environment where they think there is endless land available for garbage dumps. --68.69.xxx.xxx

Roy,every crackhead in town would take a leaking battery --74.77.xx.xx

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My last & only turnover this year was emptied out and clean, I deducted her days into the month and returned the rest. --216.126.xx.xxx

@ Roy - LOL thanks, nothing like a little meth to spice up the beef stew. Maybe I can go dance nekked in the center medium like the guy the other night the police were chasing down the highway. :D --47.216.xxx.xxx

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One reason I want to sell my D hood houses is due to hoarding which is very common in D hoods. In D hoods, it seems everyone is hoarding something and I am tired of disposing of this worthless junk once my tenants vacate. In C hoods, some hoarding does happen but it is nothing on the massive scale that the D hood tenants produce. --71.207.xxx.x

Found when the rent is increased can offer a better rental unit along get a better quality tenant. Suppose in a building a tenant wanted a refurbished rental unit when they completely trashed out existing rental unit then call you a slumlord. Said if interested in refurbished rental unit that was $900 so they moved out then only had to refurbish the completely trashed out rental unit. Over time raised when vacant there vacancy decontrol then would accept anyone with a credit score below the seven hundreds. After the Bolshevik revolution people did not change where alcoholism and worlds oldest profession did not change. A revolution is the tenancy has to be changed. --68.69.xxx.xxx

This once again goes back to screening. Since implementing the 2-minute in home inspection, my problems with this have gone down significantly. Good renters who keep a clean and tidy home take pride in their possessions and -- more importantly -- take their possessions with them. --184.4.xx.xx

I always end of up with stuff. I put it on the front porch and a "free" sign on it for about 48 hours and the rest goes to the curb for the trash man. I always try to do all of this just a few days before trash day. I hate having stuff sit on the curb too long. Once in a while we take stuff to Goodwill. Mostly kids stuff. --70.62.xxx.xxx

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With departing tenants "I've got everything out" translates as "I've got everything I WANT out." --70.90.xx.xxx

One time a tenant left a bunch of stuff inclding a piano and a small carboard box that was filled with white powder. At first I thought it was drugs, but no tenant would be stupid enough to leave any valuables. Finally, i figured out that it was cremated remains. I called the tenant and demanded that he come back and "get his mother." --152.208.xx.xxx