Apartment Dumpster Headache

[Matthew Cope]

My wife and I bought our first apartment in Springfield, MO last winter and the biggest headache we've had with the property is the dumpster. It's turned into the community dumpster and people (non-residents) keep leaving furniture and trash around it. Every other month it seems I'm paying the property manager to send someone out to retrieve the furniture because the trash company won't take it. Unfortunately, the only place I can keep the dumpster is close to the road. There's not a fence around it so it's pretty visible when driving by. 

Any ideas on what I can do? I've considered having a private fence built around it, but I'm afraid people will just put their garbage around the fence.

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