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Trash from Property to Sidewalk and back again
This might be a dumb question, but I own a 4 unit property and have been hit with two $50 fines stating
"Violation Code and Description:
107141 - Premises not litter free"
Basically trash bags being on the property outside of cans because they've overflown. They've overflown because no one put the trash cans onto the curb.
I could somehow try to get tenants to do it, could write it into leases, but I don't particularly want a bunch of $50 trash whodunnits.
I have to imagine that many landlords just pay someone to put the trash cans onto the curb. Most "trash collection services" look pretty heavy duty for my puny apartment building.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a service provider that would just take cans to the curb and bring them back in the morning? How much should doing this weekly cost?
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Reporting back @Sean Walton as this might be interesting. The tenants actually do not mind just keeping their trash in their unit trash cans and taking it out to the curb once/week. I checked with each one of them, confirmed that they would not mind, and have since then just removed the trash can from out front.
It seems that the trash can being out front invited people who were looking for a place to dump their extra trash (or types of trash that the city is unwilling to collect). I doubt that the trash issues were even caused by my tenants. Now that the can has been removed, zero issues, humans are interesting social animals eh.