Hoarding Issues and Clean Outs
After years of working with landlords, I see generally two flavors of clean outs.
Flavor #1 occurs when you have a tenant with A LOT of stuff. Perhaps they moved from a single family home and brought a lot of stuff with them. Or maybe they’ve rented your unit for years and slowly but surely accumulated stuff in your unit and/or the basement. Regardless, you now face multiple challenges:
While the current tenants are living there it’s a safety hazard for them, and you may be taking on some liability.
It becomes much harder to rent your unit quickly, to a quality tenant, at market rate if the house is a hoarder situation.
In order to get the unit ready for showings you often have to wait for the tenants to leave completely and clean up the unit, which can frequently result in multiple months of missed rent.
Flavor #2 is much more common. You’re a landlord who has owned your property for 10, 20 or more years. Every year a tenant moves into a unit and a few years later leaves a handful of items in the basement. Now it’s been 20+ years and you have 40 tenants worth of stuff in your basement and you are feeling overwhelmed.
If you’re in this position, please give me a call and I promise I will help you get to a better place. I have vendors that I know and trust who regularly help remove junk quickly at a reasonable price.