Here in the State of California, nearly 17 million people (44 percent of our residents) rent the homes or apartments where they live. This makes California the state with the second-largest tenant population in the country. For individuals who rent a home they own, large property managers that rent units in a multi-family residence, or for massive real estate companies that oversee hundreds of rental units across Contra Costa County, keeping your property rented full-time is obviously one of the most important keys to maintaining a steady flow of income. 

When tenants leave a property, preparing that space for the next renter is a time sensitive process. Here in Contra Costa County, we have an extremely competitive rental home market. In many cases, homeowners and property managers may lose a potential long-term renter because the property is not ready for them on their desired move-in date. If your former tenant has left your rental home or unit in a “less-than-optimum” condition, Junk King of Contra Costa offers the most efficient, affordable, and quickest way to clean up the abandoned or left-behind junk items. Below, we briefly outline why Junk King of Contra Costa is your best for the fastest rental cleanouts. 

How to Deal with Items Left Behind by Past Tenants?

Imagine this scenario: A long-term renter of your home recently received an unexpected job opportunity in another part of the country. This new opportunity required them to start their job almost immediately. Given the time constraints and the challenges with moving, the renter decides to simply leave behind her furniture, appliances, and many of the other personal items that couldn’t be packed into the U-Haul van she rented to facilitate her move. A day after the rent left, you receive several phone calls from people interested in renting the property immediately. How exactly can you go about cleaning up the items that were left behind in order to show the property to interested parties? 

Small and insignificant items like trash and cleaning supplies that are left behind can simply be thrown away. For larger items and items of value, it is usually advisable to call the past tenant to ask if they purposefully left the items behind. Moving is often a hurried and rushed process, and some people may simply forget to check the closet in the spare bedroom when loading up their belongings. In other cases, however, past renters may purposefully leave items behind because they either simply no longer want the items, or do not want to pay for the moving of those items to their next home. 

To avoid legal problems, homeowners and landlords should always include an “abandoned property rule or clause” in your lease or rental agreement. This clause can force the past tenant to reimburse you for the cost of storing the items if that is the case. If the past renter doesn’t respond or tells you to simply throw away the items left behind, you should be able to deduct the cost of removing those items from their security deposit. 

Once you have made an effort to contact the past renter, you then need to arrange for the quickest possible way to remove the junk items left behind. If your past tenant left an enormous amount of trash, furniture, appliances, and other bulky junk items sitting around the property, the cost of hiring an efficient and professional junk removal service like Junk King can be paid for through the past renter´s security deposit.

When you hire Junk King of Contra Costa for a rental cleanout, our junk removal teams will often be able to help you clean up the home or apartment on the same day you hire us. Our trucks are significantly larger by volume than those used by other junk removal companies. This allows us to remove more junk items in the most efficient way possible. Because we charge by the amount of volume your junk takes up in our truck, we are also able to offer the most affordable and competitive prices for every rental cleanout need you may have.

Why Choose Junk for your Rental Cleanout in Contra Costa County 

For landlords, real estate agents, and individuals who rent out properties, trying to deal with the junk left behind by past tenants can be a headache, especially if you attempt to remove all of those items on your own. Junk King of Contra Costa offers the most efficient one-stop solution for all your rental cleanout needs. When you hire us for your rental cleanout here in Contra Costa County, our professional junk haulers will do all of the heavy lifting and hauling for you. Simply show us what items you want removed, and we will do the rest. 

Another advantage of hiring Junk King for your rental cleanout is that you can rest assured that we will take extra precaution to respect and care for the home and property throughout the junk removal process. In the unlikely event that we do scoff up a wall, our company is fully licensed, insured, and bonded and will respond for any damage that may occur. 

Lastly, Junk King of Contra Costa is not only the top-rated, most affordable, and most efficient junk removal company, but is also the greenest one. Our junk removal services can help individuals, homeowners, businesses, and even large industries find an environmentally friendly solution to the trash that is accumulating in their spaces. Whereas many junk removal services will simply pick up your trash and drive it to the nearest landfill, we are 100 percent committed to making the effort to finding a “second life” for the items we pick up. 

Our team of junk removal professionals has strong relationships with local recycling operations, donation centers, and several nonprofit organizations. We are thus able to make every effort to either recycle, repurpose, or donate the items that we collect. Those old couches and appliances left behind by past renters can often be donated to families in need in our community. 

We provide the absolute best rental cleanout services to the entire Contra Costa area, including the towns of Alamo, Antioch, Brentwood, Byron, Canyon, Clayton, Concord, Crockett, Danville, Diablo, Discovery Bay, Dublin, Fremont, Livermore, Moraga, Pleasanton, San Ramon, and Walnut Creek

Junk King offers the most efficient and environmentally friendly way to get rid of virtually any type of trash or junk that past tenants may have left behind, including: 

• Yard debris 
• Construction debris 
• Old and used furniture 
• Used and broken appliances
• Old hot tubs 
• Mattresses 
• Old refrigerators and freezers 
• Used electronics and other sources of e-waste
• And more! 

How to Hire Junk King Contra Costa for your Rental Cleanout Needs

If you live in the Contra Costa region and need to get rid of excess junk left behind by past renters, simply give us a call at (925) 289-8511 or 1-888-888-5865 (JUNK). You can also book us online by filling out the form found here. Also, you can text us an image of the junk that you need hauled away at 1-737-888-5865 and we will text you back a price estimate. 

Once you have agreed to the price we send back to you, you simply have to pick a date and a two-hour window. In many cases, we might even be able to offer same day service. Our junk removal professionals will call you 15 minutes before arrival, and all you have to do is show us where the junk is. We will do all the heavy hauling to ensure that you can efficiently and affordably clean up the rental property in order to get it ready to show to your next tenant.