Foreclosure and eviction cleanouts.

Trash-out work is its own category. The customer is rarely the previous occupant; the customer is the bank, the property manager, the landlord, the REO agent, or the executor inheriting a property in worse shape than the title search suggested. The work is whatever the previous occupants left — furniture, appliances, food in a non-running refrigerator, clothing, abandoned vehicles in some cases, and the surface clutter of a life that ended at the property without a forwarding address.

There is one part of this work we want to be explicit about, because it is where a hauler's judgment actually matters. If somebody turns up while we are working and says the property or the belongings are theirs, we stop. Immediately, and without arguing. Our crews are told the same thing every time: step back, do not take a side, do not keep loading, call in. What gets said is some version of "you'll need to talk with the landlord about this — we were hired to do a job, but we're going to pause until it's sorted out." Then it goes back to the people with the authority to settle it. The same applies to a single item: if a person says the grill or the tools are theirs, that item comes off the truck and sits until somebody with standing decides.

We are not attorneys, we do not resolve family or tenancy disputes, and we do not determine who owns what. It has cost us jobs — a crew out, a morning gone, nothing loaded — and it is still the right call every time. Hauling away somebody's belongings when the authority to do it was not clear is not a mistake you can undo afterward.

We don’t make judgments about who lived there. The work is the work. Some properties are clean except for a few large items. Some have a year of accumulation in every room. Some have biohazard considerations that change the protocol — we’ll tell you upfront what’s in scope versus what needs a remediation contractor first.

Where we do the work differently is the turnaround. Property managers and REO agents need the property listing-ready in days, not weeks. We schedule fast — often within a week of the assignment — and we execute. The property gets cleared, swept, and ready for the cleaning crew or the listing photographer in a single visit when scope allows.

Documentation matters for trash-out work. We send photo documentation, an itemized receipt of major items removed, and a final clear-status photo set to the customer’s file. Property management companies and asset-management firms file these to the loan service or the REO disposition record.