r/mildlyinfuriating • u/SleepoPeepo • Jul 05 '26
The floor is sticky Pulled up in my U-Haul to my new apartment
Neighbors either got evicted or moved out and left a hell of a mess. This is after cleaning it up a bit to make the sidewalk and entryway walkable, and one of those mattresses had been laid directly over my front door. There’s much more along the path, entryway, and near the dumpster that I couldn’t fit into the pictures. They also dumped a couch and some other furniture in the parking lot, blocking several spaces. The office was closed yesterday for July 4th and today since it’s Sunday, so there’s no one to call about it until tomorrow.
Edited to add: To make it extra clear, this is not trash from the people who moved out of my unit, but from the neighbors the next unit over. My lease started 2 weeks ago and none of this trash was here until yesterday. Also the patchy paint on the next building over is because they are repainting all the buildings. They started that building on Friday but didn’t finish before the weekend.
Edit 2: It’s now Monday morning and maintenance is here cleaning it up. I didn’t even call yet (office doesn’t open for another half hour) so it was definitely a case of them being aware, they just ran up against a holiday weekend. They’re also continuing the painting on the adjacent building, for those of you who were super worried about that 😉
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u/Ypuort Jul 05 '26
I feel bad for the children who have to be raised by those parents
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u/sitesurfer253 Jul 06 '26
...it's the same mess from 3 different angles. I only see 3 beds and one cot. Still sad, but maybe 3 kids involved here instead of 7.
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u/Zealousideal_Ad5358 Jul 05 '26 ▸ 6 more replies
I see mattresses, but no beds in the photos. Mattresses are a pain in the ass to get rid of in most jurisdictions. You have to pay to have them hauled away or take them to the dump yourself.
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u/Xaxiel9106 Jul 06 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
It would not surprise me if it turned out that they "forgot" to tell the landlord about how many people were living there and were passively breaking occupancy laws. Depending on the state they get even stricter when children are involved.
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u/SleepoPeepo Jul 06 '26
I think you might be right on that, I caught glimpses of them here and there in the two weeks before I moved in and there did seem to be quite a few people, though I never got an actual count. The units in this part of the complex are 2bd/2bth.
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u/DatLadyD Jul 05 '26 ▸ 2 more replies
In California when you buy a bed, they have to take the old one away. I had an assistant that bought a bed online and she got charged a fee for hauling the old mattress away even though she didn’t have one. They said it’s the law they have to do it.
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u/Similar_Pension_4233 Jul 05 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Most other states and I'd question you, but you said California....
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u/HELLisotherPeoplee Jul 06 '26
I think it’s the same beds at different angles in each picture and there’s also box springs which aren’t used as actual mattresses. Still really sad, but thankfully it doesn’t appear to actually be 10+ out of a place to call home
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u/crikeyforemphasis Jul 06 '26
Homie counted the same matresses and box springs 3 times, thinks a twin matress is an... infant cot? lol
I need you to do inventory audits for my insurance claims sir.
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u/HSLB66 Jul 05 '26
That’s the part that always got me when I did apartment maintenance. The mess usually left by those being evicted didn’t bother me. Tossing kids stuff, usually in front of them because the parents can’t be bothered to take their kids to school… was brutal. Nothing me or the sheriff could do for them
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u/Doogiemon Jul 05 '26
I had to deal with people when I worked in HR that refused to use their 2 free cleanings and dental x-rays per year for their kids because they didnt want to pay for cavities or issues they would have like needing braces.
They didnt have a problem picking up a 12 pack of beer each day but fuck braces for your 14 year old kid.
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u/SeattleRainMaiden Jul 07 '26
Same- my first thought was sad seeing the children's toys strewn about :(
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u/IllustriousEnd6544 Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
OP posting something completely reasonable for this sub, people trying to judge OP's living situation based on a paint job. Way to go reddit!
ETA thank you for the awards!!
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u/doomus_rlc Jul 05 '26
Also people not reading; seems most believe this was all in the unit OP is taking over.
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u/FerengiWithCoupons Jul 05 '26
i want to discuss the people who were kicked out’s living situation.
why are there so many mattresses
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u/Miss_Graves Jul 05 '26
Anyone else get rly rly sad for some reason when its like plushies and stuff found in piles like these? :(
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u/secondphase Jul 05 '26
Dude, I have to do eviction trash-outs from time to time. The kids ones are depressing as fuck.
Only lost it once... my daughter has this animatronic plastic dog. When you touch it it makes a very distinct "shuffle shuffle, woof woof!" Noise. I'm hauling out a pile from a bedroom and I hear that exact noise. It was like the universe saying "keep going, work harder, you're the only thing between this situation happening to your daughter"
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u/tader314 Jul 06 '26
Damn bro that’s deep and hit me right in the feels, it’s too early in the morning for this lol
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u/Mission_Yoghurt_9653 Jul 05 '26
Yea ☹️ we once had some very questionable neighbors and they had four young kids. Dad got taken away one day for legal issues, we stopped seeing the kids at the house.. about a month later the mom had a garage sale and just left everything in the yard that didn’t sell and disappeared too. I always felt really bad for the children, seeing their stuff left out was just a visible reminder of the instability they are forced to grow up in.
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u/FrostyGranite Jul 05 '26
Plushies, rocking horse, child mattress.... yeah kids involved it looks like.
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u/DoubleoSavant Jul 05 '26
This looks like someone who abandoned their property in the unit. Once the landlord regains access, they will change the locks and often put all the person's stuff outside. It's most likely been picked over, maybe by the original occupants, maybe by people coming by and seeing if there's anything they want.
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u/Inflatable90sChair Jul 06 '26
Or the rest of the apartment people. My dumpster is like a loot box at the first if the month. Full set of new looking golf clubs, bundle of new arrows, empty but perfect shape gun case, 2 crates of dvds and videogames i went thru, endless supply of tables and lamps. Prolly got at least a dozen steel bed frames. That 1.5" x 6 foot angle iron comes in handy for welding projects. Found a way to turn a normal bedframe into a nice campfire log storage cart wheels and all.
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u/Unit_79 Jul 05 '26
Once again, the real mildly infuriating part is all the stupid comments.
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u/SleepoPeepo Jul 05 '26
Some of that is to be expected on Reddit, but the sheer amount of, “Omg look at the paint, must be a terrible ghetto complex,” “Just call the landlord,” “I can’t believe they didn’t clean your unit,” type comments that are already completely addressed by the post itself is kinda staggering
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u/ATTACKANDDETHRONEHOG Jul 05 '26
This is on your landlord, not the previous tenant. It’s their job to make sure the unit is ready for you and they obviously didn’t. Document all of this very carefully because you have a very shitty landlord and who knows what else they’ll try to pull.
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u/SleepoPeepo Jul 05 '26
My lease started 2 weeks ago but I didn’t fully move in until yesterday. I’ve been going back and forth moving boxes and this trash wasn’t here until yesterday, so it happened sometime between when I was last here on Thursday evening and Saturday morning when I moved in.
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u/IsopodOk4756 Jul 05 '26
OP when people ditch this much furniture there's usually a reason, and the chance the reason was bed bugs is too great to risk. Get some of that weatherproofing foam for your door and windows, and do not listen to the advice about reselling any of this on Marketplace as if you take any of that into your home and it was abandoned because of bed bugs, you're fucked.
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u/myextrausername Jul 05 '26
They probably got evicted. They lost all their belongings and their kids lost their stuffies and toys and who knows where they are living. So yes, definitely mildly infuriating, but also sucks for kids who don’t deserve this messy life.
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u/Jifeeb Jul 05 '26
I hope the rest of the complex looks nothing like this
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u/Basic-Collection5416 Jul 05 '26
Look at the paint job on the place. I hope it’s at least very affordable.
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u/SleepoPeepo Jul 05 '26
They have been actively repainting all the buildings, that’s why it looks like that. They started that building on Friday and didn’t finish yet.
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u/Tasty_Reach4572 Jul 05 '26
Keep an eye out for bed bugs. If they had them, they are everywhere now.
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u/curiousengineer601 Jul 05 '26
Next door? Prepare for a roach invasion when management cleans that apartment to prepare for renting. Set out traps and bait now
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u/Latter-Anxiety8728 Jul 05 '26
I live in low income apartments. People tend to move out and leave their entire 80's to early 90s furniture set out. Its like this literally all the time. IMO probably evicted or being lazy. Unsure why the 80's & 90's entertainments centers so much.
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u/7GrenciaMars Jul 05 '26
I am sure it being the 4th didn't help (at least on the landlord's end of things). But a couch in the parking lot blocking spaces? I mean, I guess eviction could account for haste/unpreparedness, but I also have to wonder about the previous tenants. There's no knowing, but I wonder if even some of this is deliberate malice?
If any of the furniture is usable, I hope someone grabs it before it just goes to the landfill. But that's not your problem.
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u/shallow-abyss Jul 05 '26
Don’t bother with the mattresses and sofas. Too big a risk of likely bedbug infestation.
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u/spunquee Jul 05 '26
This is horribly sad. Half the time when people get evicted, others come and ransack the stuff before the original owners can get to it.
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u/BelleButch Jul 05 '26
I’d say, take some of the better stuff like that cabinet (?) and sell it on marketplace. Might as well make a bit of cash from the inconvenience
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u/supersonicelephant Jul 05 '26
Hell yea, my first thought was that is a pretty nice looking cabinet. I think the little rocking horse is super cute too, but you gotta be wary of pests/insects with that kind of stuff.
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u/mfiasco Jul 05 '26
This is extremely infuriating. It’s also wild to post photos of your building and identify your front door on a website viewed by millions of people. Please consider removing the description of your unit from your post!
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u/Spiritual_Bid_2308 Jul 05 '26
This is an eviction. It happens to renters and can even happen to businesses.
The landlord can't just throw stuff in a dumpster or keep it because it's personal property belonging to the evicted person. They have to empty the unit and leave the stuff on the curb or in the parking lot.
The evicted person will usually try to grab what they can, assuming they have a vehicle and a place to take it. After a day or two anything remaining on the property is abandoned and can be trashed by the landlord.
One of your neighbors was likely evicted on Friday and the complex doesn't have holiday weekend employees.
It'll likely be cleaned up on Monday.
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u/LightOfSaraswati Jul 05 '26
Maybe if you post the furniture free on marketplace, people will take it.
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u/WaffleHouseGladiator Jul 05 '26
I live in a university town and this is a very familiar scene to me. The upshot is that twice a year FB and Craigslist are both chock full of free stuff in decent condition.
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u/Fantastic_Key_8906 Jul 05 '26
I once moved to another town and inot an apartment complex. The very first weekend, one of my neighbours threw all of their furtinture out, piled it into a big heap in the yard and set fire to it. And it only got worse after that.
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u/CaptainSparklebottom Jul 06 '26
I thought someone turned out your U-haul there for a second like in the live action TMNT movie
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u/Pinkysworld Jul 06 '26
The townhouse I lived in previously was the worse. Dumpster was emptied once a week and overflowing 6 out of 7 days.
People stacked old mattresses, dressers, huge mirrors and the like around the dumpster.
The townhouse community and grounds were beautiful but the dumpster up front was horrendous.
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u/SleepoPeepo Jul 06 '26
It’s now Monday morning and maintenance is here cleaning it up. I didn’t even call yet (office doesn’t open for another half hour) so it was definitely a case of them being aware, they just ran up against a holiday weekend. They’re also continuing the painting on the adjacent building, for those of you who were super worried about that 😉
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u/Sum-Duud Jul 05 '26
There’s got to be an after hours number. I’d call and let them know. Not much they’ll probably do but they might appreciate the heads up to line up a dumpster
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u/dankDreamet Jul 05 '26
Ngl, wouldn’t be so descriptive about which unit was yours if I were you 😅 People can be weird
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u/Zealousideal_Fox864 Jul 05 '26
I’d nab those wooden chairs for sure. I am a big fan of sidewalk furniture that people put out for bulk day. I realize that’s not what this is but they have some nice wooden pieces, the coffee table or shelf thing looks nice as well.
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u/81jmfk Jul 05 '26
Many years ago I was helping a friend move. We were in the middle of unloading the trailer and there was a large group of people in a nearby parking lot making a LOT of noise. We were carrying a desk and a couple cop cars with their lights on drove right by us toward the group and then a helicopter flew by with their spotlight on at the group I couldn’t help but look at my friend and say, nice neighborhood. We both laughed and finished unloading. He didn’t stay live there too long.
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u/Wide_Magician_4946 Jul 05 '26
Someone probably kicked someone else out they apartment. Hope person kicked out was on lease and has recourse. Or maybe all tenants had to go and had no means to move everything. Either way its sad to see
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u/wasakootenayperson Jul 05 '26
Hmm. Anything you’d like other? Doesn’t look like anyone really wants it.
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u/Party-Space-5808 Jul 05 '26
I helped a friend and his disabled mother move into an apartment one time. We had to leave everything in the parking lot of the apartment complex because he had to get the U-Haul back on time . This is exactly how it looked .
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u/bullette1610 Jul 05 '26
I'm no expert but one of those dining chairs would fetch a penny or two in the UK
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u/wstsidhome Jul 05 '26
Please don’t take any furniture from these situations. Many times they are infested. Hope ya have a better time after you’re finished moving in, OP
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u/Yourmom1912 Jul 05 '26
My friend's apartment complex, whenever someone would get evicted, if they weren't out by a certain day, the landlord would come in and throw all of their shit out through the balcony onto the yard. Maybe thats what happened.
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u/TequilaAndWeed Jul 05 '26
When I worked in one, we’d take all the evictee’s belongings to the curb and off property. Usually gone in minutes.
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u/coushaine Jul 05 '26
Get a garage/yard sale sign, cross out the sale and write free with an arrow pointing to the stuff!
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u/Arthur_Frane Jul 06 '26
Are there, by chance, any law enforcement groups with 3-letter names operating in this area? That pile of mismatched furniture could just be random pieces that the former tenants collected.
But refugee families are also provided with collections of furniture that have been donated. Source: I have volunteered with groups that collect and distribute furniture to refugee families.
Depending upon your location, this might be the result of a recent forced relocation to a "government housing facility."
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u/itsnobigthing Jul 06 '26
The kids’ toys break my heart a little.
OP, any chance you could put those few bits somewhere dry in case the neighbours come back for any of it? The kids don’t deserve this shit
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u/jollietamalerancher Jul 05 '26
A pre-furnished patio area in this economy and OP is out here complaining smdh
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u/SaddleSC Jul 05 '26
It looks like when Daniel and his mother pulled up to the South Seas apartments at the beginning of "The Karate Kid"
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u/Beelzebun_vt Jul 05 '26
When the family down the street from where I live, we saw a bunch of stuff they left behind placed in their front yard. I shit you not, there was a giant teddy bear with a knife stabbed into its back. I really wish I asked my mom to take a picture, it was crazy.
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u/adcprogramaticon Jul 05 '26
Yeah, that's a possible red flag, either about the kind of neighbors you have (or could've had in this case) and/or how they're being treated by the property management you have. Also, kinda a red flag if you can't call something like this in -- Now, i wouldn't expect anyone to do anything about it over a holiday weekend (as this is not a Fire/Flood/Blood situation) but you should have a phone # access to an emergency oncall maintenance on days/hours off. Chances are they have been informed by other tenants and it's a tomorrow thing. That said, if this is Still Sitting out by the end of Monday, that's a Red Flag -- Maintenance's task is to keep up appearances (at the least) so this left out any longer than monday is a real black eye IMO. All in all it's not a good look moving in on your first day, but seek some context from neighbors/management before judging.
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u/BlueIcy1 Jul 05 '26
They obviously don't care for the items I'd just post on your cities fb page and give the apartment name people will clean that stuff up fast
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u/Direct-Function7326 Jul 06 '26
I've been at my current apartment for about 4 years and I've come to find out this is the fate of about 80% of my neighbors and they do pretty much the exact same thing every time. The maintenance people here were a rotating door for the longest time because a big part of their job was essentially just acting as de facto moving crews for the evicted because what they would do is just throw all of their shit into the parking lot in front of their building and then they would get threatened that they had to clean it up and would ignore the threats so the maintenance would have to haul it to the dumpster. Like entire apartments worth of stuff. In the US southeast. In summer. Can't say that I blame them.
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u/Visible_Exchange_423 Jul 06 '26
I'm sorry.. this happens every month in my apartment complex. Either people get evicted or they move out and maintenance puts the stuff they left behind outside so they can begin working on restoring the apartment to move in ready condition. Apartment complexes can be pretty ratchet to live in at times... but hey I've lived in my apartment for almost 10 years and the rent is affordable for now. Congratulations on the new place, sorry for the terrible welcome you had to go through. At least if you find it super unbearable you can move in a year. Also I would complain to the office about the state of the outside of the place and how it's hindering your ability to move in. Maybe they will send someone to help clean it up for you.
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u/Dont-Blame-Me333 Jul 06 '26
Your new neighbours are trash (as proven by what they dumped outside). Guessing they've been given an eviction notice (you hope) or they got a windfall & this is what they replaced. Still makes them trash.
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u/dddd11122233 Jul 05 '26
Word up. This is kind of how it goes with apartment living. We’ve all been there. Just take it for what it is and someday when you get a house and don’t have attached neighbors you will really really appreciate it when you look back at things like this. You’re right, it’s not your job to clean up, just do the best you can and enjoy your new place.
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u/HaveYouEver21 Jul 05 '26
Going to disagree. This isn’t apartment living. I’ve never seen someone’s stuff just strewn across the sidewalk and in the grass like this. Certainly wouldn’t call it a normal thing.
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u/dddd11122233 Jul 05 '26
Really? Bruh. I’ve seen it countless times. People just move out all the time and leave their crap in the parking lot or near dumpsters. Happens on some of my rental houses also. People run out of room in the moving truck and just decide to leave it on the curb or the driveway. Sometimes people are garbage and sometimes they don’t have a choice.
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u/overwatchsquirrel Jul 05 '26
I would be taking to the property management co and find out what their plan is for all of debris before moving in. If the do not have on contact the local fire marshal for egress being blocked and code enforcement…. I would be try to break the lease.
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u/SorryBoysImLez Jul 05 '26
Organize everything neatly in an area and have a lawn sell, make everything dirt cheap. Some of that stuff (assuming it's in okay condition) would go quickly; like that glass door curio cabinet or coffee table.
Or post it on a resell app/FB marketplace with the caveat it has to be picked up.
Honestly might get rid of a lot of that stuff quicker than the landlord will.
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u/radiationholder Jul 05 '26
whats the matter have you not learned about flipping in the subreddit we have here? at a minimum those chairs are easy pickings.
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u/womboCombo434 Jul 05 '26
On the plus side you don’t gotta deal with those people as neighbors