If you are a private landlord who rents out an apartment, guest house, or house your job doesn’t stop when a tenant moves out. In fact, the bulk of your work starts when you are between tenants. Not only do you have to screen and find new tenants, you have to clean your rental unit and get it ready to rent. Here’s the basic how tos of how to get a rental unit, apartment, or …
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The Los Angeles Mayor That Trash Elected
The idea of a mayoral race turning on the issue of trash collection and trash removal seems odd today. Trash removal and trash pick ups are just things that happen. While the cost of trash removal might be a local political issue from time to time, it is hard to think of an entire mayoral race hinging on the issue of trash removal. But one mayoral race did. The 1961 Los Angeles Mayor’s race. Before …
How Do You Throw Away Paint Cans?
Paints and paint cans are considered hazardous materials by most cities and municipalities. Landfills generally do not accept paint and paint cans for disposal. Your average waste management company won’t take paint and paint cans in the normal trash. So how do you dispose of paint and paint cans? You have two options: a junk removal service or waiting for a city toxic item pick up day. Most cities have certain days, typically twice a …
What Did Native Americans Do With Their Trash?
In modern and postmodern society it is easy to forget that trash pick up is a relatively modern invention. Organized trash pick up didn’t exist until the late 1800s. And began in cities like New York and Paris. Most of rural America didn’t have trash pick up until the 1950s. So how did the world deal with trash before trash pick up? Trash wasn’t a huge health concern until people began living in cities. Native …
What is Garbage Removal? 03/15/2013
It seems like garbage removal has been around forever. If you grew up in the 1960s or later you may have never visited a landfill or a dump. Your interaction with garbage removal might only be taking your garbage out to the garbage can or dumpster, knowing it will disappear in a few days. But garbage removal is relatively recent invention. The concept of garbage removal goes back into the B.C.E.’s The first known garbage …
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