Plan on $1,000 to $5,000 per turn, and the biggest line is not a vendor invoice. It is rent you do not collect while the unit sits. At $1,800 a month that is about $60 a day. Left-behind furniture is the cheapest item on the sheet: from $79, same-day when you book by 2 PM.
What a vacant day costs at your rent
Every job on a make-ready sheet has two prices: the invoice, and the days it keeps the unit off the market. The invoices vary by market and are honest ranges at best. Cleaning runs a couple hundred dollars, a full repaint a few hundred to over a thousand, small repairs whatever the walkthrough finds. Those jobs are schedulable. The rent clock is not. Divide the monthly rent by thirty and that is what one idle day costs, whether anyone is working in the unit or not.
| Monthly rent | One vacant day | Three days waiting on a vendor |
|---|---|---|
| $1,200 | $40 | $120 |
| $1,800 | $60 | $180 |
| $2,400 | $80 | $240 |
| $3,000 | $100 | $300 |
When your own crew is the cheaper answer
If the property has a dumpster or compactor on site and your crew has slack, use it. Walking a dresser to your own steel costs nothing new, and no pickup service beats that. Check the hauling contract first, since some compactor agreements exclude furniture and mattresses.
A renovation turn is dumpster territory too. Demo debris comes off the walls for days, and per-item pricing is the wrong tool for a running pile. An eviction set-out or a true hoarder unit is a job for a full-service crew: past about ten items, a volume quote beats per-item math, and that work means going inside, which nobody from Dropcurb does.
Where the calendar breaks
What those options share is that none of them runs on your clock. Bulk pickup schedules vary by city; many run a set collection week or a monthly route, and a missed set-out waits for the next one. A full-service crew prices on site, so the visit that produces a number is an appointment, and the haul is a second one. Your own crew's dump run waits for a free afternoon and an empty truck.
None of that is a complaint about those services. It is what their calendars look like. But a unit with a sectional in the living room does not photograph, does not show, and does not read as clean no matter what the cleaners did. A couch is $99 to remove. At $1,800 rent, three days of waiting on someone else's schedule is $180. The couch costs more to leave than it costs to take.
Book online between the lease-end walkthrough and the first showing. The price is fixed when you book: a couch is $99, a queen mattress $99, a queen box spring $79, and each additional item is less. Your crew sets the items outside on the way out; nobody needs to meet the truck. Book by 2 PM and it goes today where same-day pickup is running.
Couch, $99Will it actually go the same day
On Google, Tyler Bond wrote that his couch was gone 45 minutes after he booked, against a $250 quote he had from a mover. That is the fast end, not the promise. Haulers head out between 8 and 10 in the morning, almost half of pickups are done by noon, and about three quarters by 2 PM. You get a text with the ETA before yours arrives, and photos once it is gone. We are at 5.0 on Google across 150+ reviews and 4.9 on Trustpilot across 125+, moving more than 1,000 items a month.
Deducting it from the deposit
In most states, removing property the tenant abandoned is deductible from the security deposit, alongside cleaning beyond normal wear. The rules vary by state, so treat this as process, not legal advice: a lease clause that makes removal the tenant's responsibility, timestamped photos from the move-out inspection, an itemized receipt, and notice inside your state's window, commonly two to four weeks. A per-item receipt that says couch, $99 is the kind a former tenant rarely disputes. A lump-sum labor invoice is the kind they do.