If a tenant leaves more than just a "few" items in the unit our lease clock continues to click, we put our own lock on, call, write, email etc. and tell them how things will proceed and it is their best interest to come back and clear the unit...or else.

We move them out at the end of the month and then charge them a cleanup fee. If it is just one or two small items, it's $15.00. If its a lot of junk, then we charge more. A lot more. We call them, send them a letter, and if they don't clean it up within a month, and of course, they have to come to the office to get in to do it, we report them to the credit reporting people.

I just had a customer who left a couple things and they came and cleaned it up. Yay! I love it when they do, but as all ways, we have the people who don't. Oh well, it's their credit score.

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We had a guy walk into the middle of our cactus that we have along the fence(the kind with the fine hairs that burn) and do that. He was a little too drunk to know............until later.

Then he was upset because we had it noted in the customer notes section on his account. (normally it is a lease terminiation, but because of the humour he brought to the office he got a second chance)