Move-out procedures

Below are move-out procedures that you should follow when you vacate your apartment.

  1. Your apartment should be left clean. Please be sure the following are thoroughly cleaned:
    • All flooring vacuumed, all carpet professionally shampooed. (If lease requires you to do so.)
    • Refrigerator- when you defrost leave door propped open.
    • Stove, broiler, storage drawer
    • Kitchen and bathroom sinks
    • Dishwasher
    • Tub/shower
    • Cupboards and areas under sink
    • Medicine chest
    • Closets, including furnace closet
    • Balcony
    • Furniture
  2. Carry out all trash, including cement blocks and/or homemade bed frames.
  3. Set thermostat no lower than 60 degrees. (For winter check-outs only.)
  4. Call utility companies and ask them to turn off utilities as of the day after your lease expires. The reason for the extra day is that we need to have the power and water on while we inspect and/or clean your apartment (if needed). If we need to clean the unit and power/water are not on your cleaning costs could be substantially higher. If you had extra phones installed with separate numbers, you must have single-number line status restored at your expense or the cost of this will be deducted from your security deposit.
  5. Your move-out is not complete until all personal items have been removed from the apartment and all keys returned to the manager's office. If you move out late you will be charged a daily amount of $200.00, as well as motel costs and any other costs the incoming tenant might incur because of their late move-in.
  6. Return all keys to the manager's office at the same time if possible. There will be a lock change charge if keys have not been returned before 12:00 noon on the last day of your lease.
  7. Leave your forwarding address on the forms when you return the keys.

You will be charged for the cost of materials and labor necessary to repair any damage to the apartment's interior (walls, doors, carpet, windows, furniture, etc.) for which you are responsible. Any items of apparent value (value is determined at the lessors discression) left behind in the apartment will be stored for a 30-day period. To recover items, you must pay $50.00 cash per day in storage fees plus our cost of packing and storage.