Twice a year — May 1 and October 1 — half your portfolio turns over in the same seventy-two hours, and whatever the outgoing tenants left is standing between you and the incoming rent. We clear left-behinds in the gap, unit by unit, one invoice per block: flat rates from $241, per-unit photos, receipts built for Chicago's deposit-documentation stakes.
Send the unit list — flat per-unit quotes, crews pre-committed
Upload Photos & Get Quote →| The unit's condition | Flat price |
|---|---|
| A few left-behind pieces | from $75 (sofa $126, mattress $82–$114, fridge $164) |
| Mixed pile — small / medium / large | $82 / $129 / $208 |
| Lightly left-behind unit — quarter truck | $241 |
| Partly furnished — half truck | $431 |
| Full abandonment — per 16-cu-yd truck | $732 |
$75 minimum per stop. Back-stairs carries, disposal, donation routing, itemized receipts and per-unit photos included. Blocks invoice once, to the property.
A unit renting at $1,800 loses about $60 of rent per day it can't show. The left-behind clear — $241 to $732 — pays for itself inside a week of recovered vacancy, which is why "wait and deal with it" is the most expensive plan on the board. Off-peak we turn a unit within 24 hours of the photo; in flip week, the reserved block is what keeps every lease starting on time.
Chicago's landlord-tenant rules put real consequences behind sloppy deposit handling, and left-behind disputes are where paperwork earns its keep. Every clear generates the file: your before photos, our itemized receipt, our after photos of the empty unit — the package a deduction or an abandonment record wants behind it. The honest limit, stated plainly: we're haulers, not lawyers. Follow your lease's abandoned-property process; we make the clearing fast and the paper automatic once you're cleared to clear.
Addresses, unit numbers, photos of what's known — every unit priced flat before the flip.
Lockbox, engineer, or meet-and-open — worked in your order, around your make-ready trades.
Each unit shot empty as it finishes; the block lands on one itemized invoice.
Free, no signup — flat per-unit quote from photos
Upload Photos & Get Quote →Flat by volume per unit: a few left-behind pieces price individually (sofa $126, mattress from $111, fridge $164), a lightly left-behind unit clears as a quarter truck at $241, half truck $431, a full abandonment $732 per 16-cubic-yard truck. $75 minimum per stop; back-stairs carries, disposal, donation routing, itemized receipt and per-unit photos included. Multi-unit blocks land on one invoice.
Chicago's residential-landlord-tenant rules put real teeth behind security-deposit handling, and disputes are common — so an itemized removal receipt plus photos of the unit before and after the clear is exactly the paper a deduction (or an abandonment file) wants behind it. We generate both automatically. The honest limit: we're haulers, not lawyers — follow your lease's abandoned-property process and clear when you're cleared to clear.
Send the unit list before the flip — we pre-commit crews to the gap between the outgoing and incoming leases, work the list in your order (lockbox, on-site staff, or meet-and-open), photograph each unit empty, and invoice once. Off-peak, a single unit typically turns within 24 hours of the photo; in flip week the block reservation is the guarantee.
For buildings over four units there are no city carts at all — you're on private hauling, and a furniture pile by the dumpsters is your own code problem. Even at black-cart buildings, a unit's worth of leftovers exceeds bulky-item practice and sits at your address between wards' collection timing. The vacancy math is decisive anyway: a week of lost rent on a $1,800 unit outruns any cleanout invoice.