An apartment move-out cleanout is rarely the hard part of a turn — it’s just the part that blocks everything else. Paint can’t start, carpet can’t be measured, and the unit can’t be shown while a sectional is still in the living room. Bulky Drop clears vacated units on your turn schedule, sorts and documents everything, and hands the unit back ready for the actual work.
What a Slow Apartment Move-Out Cleanout Costs
- Days added to every turn. Nothing in the turn sequence starts until the unit is empty. A two-day delay on cleanout is a two-day delay on everything downstream.
- Maintenance doing the wrong job. The people who should be patching, painting and punching out are instead carrying a mattress down two flights.
- Injury exposure on your payroll. Furniture and appliances are how maintenance staff get hurt, and it’s your workers’ comp claim when they do.
- Peak season breaks the schedule. When ten units go at once, the plan that worked for two stops working entirely.
- Piles that show up on tour day. Move-out season and peak leasing season are the same season, and the discarded furniture ends up somewhere visible.
- Deposit disputes with no evidence. Charging for what was left behind is difficult when nobody photographed it before it went in the truck.
How It Fits Your Turn
You Send the Units
Unit numbers and target dates — one unit or the whole month’s board. Notice-to-vacate dates work fine; we’ll schedule against them.
We Slot In Before the Trades
Cleanout is scheduled to land before paint and flooring, so the unit is empty when the next crew arrives instead of the day after.
We Clear and Document
Everything you’ve marked for removal comes out. Each unit gets photographed before and after, with an itemized record of what was taken.
Items Are Sorted, Not Dumped
Good-condition furniture and appliances are routed to donation, recyclable material is recycled, and only what’s left goes to disposal.
Two Ways to Run It
- Recurring slot on your turn calendar
- Predictable cost per unit
- Priority scheduling in peak months
- Block booking for a heavy turn window
- Multiple units in a single day
- No standing commitment
Pricing depends on unit size, typical volume left behind, and how many units you turn. We’ll quote it against your real turnover rather than a generic rate card.
What You Get Back
- Turn days back. The unit is empty when the trades arrive, not when someone on staff finds an afternoon.
- Maintenance doing maintenance. Your team spends turn week on punch lists instead of furniture.
- Evidence for deposit deductions. Photos and an itemized list of what was left in the unit, dated, before any of it was moved.
- Capacity when you need it most. Peak season is exactly when in-house capacity runs out and exactly when we’re set up to absorb it.
- One invoice, one contact. No coordinating a junk hauler per unit and chasing three different crews.
- Diversion you can report. Usable furniture goes to donation rather than a landfill, which matters to owners who report on it.
Cleanout Plus a Drop Zone
Move-out cleanout handles what residents leave behind. A Drop Zone handles what they’d otherwise leave at the dumpster on the way out — residents book and pay for their own bulk disposal before they go, so less of it becomes your turn cost in the first place.
What Property Managers Ask Us
Get Turn Days Back
Send us your turn board and we’ll build a cleanout schedule around it, with a quote based on your real turnover.