Hauling is a Professional Handyman Service

 As a professional handyman, it often comes up that I'm asked to provide hauling service of some kind. The most common request being trash hauling.  Pretty much all of my residential customers are rental properties,  both long term and short-term.  So there are occasions where a long term rental moves out and leaves a lot of trash.  The property owner can get a good cleaning company but that might leave an unusually large amount of trash bags not able to fit into bins or qualify for street trash pickup. 

Also fairly often, a short-term rental like an airbnb guest might rent a property over a holiday or seasonal event and leave a lot of trash behind.  A good guest will at least try to bag it and put it out.  Some don't and leave it up to the cleaners.  Either way, once again we have a lot of trash that weekly pickup often won't take. That or it's way too much before regular pickup and there's another guest coming in before that.  It happens.


Neighbors get grumpy really fast with so much trash sitting out in the open.

Pests like raccoons, mice, roaches,  and more might be looking for food or a place to call home and this mess is a beacon to them.

I always have a truck, ready for work. Trash hauling is not uncommon.  I will pick up bagged trash only.  Then I will transport it to a local recycling center or landfill and unload it all there.


I'll also work with my client, the property owner, to make changes if possible to their weekly pickup service. These changes might be investigating alternate contractors, or determining if more bins can be added and what type or how many.

Gathering and providing information to prevent or mitigate such things from happening in the future is part of a professional service.  It's not just handling the immediate problem,  it's working to prevent or mitigate it from happening again if and when possible. 



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