Basically, in order to protect myself, when I do a proposal, I will actually write down any appliances that they want removed. If we are in a house and there are appliances that were missed, I will call to verify. I would never think of just taking it out. I have even had times where I found items in a drawer and have let the customers know.

My husband has been able to donate most of a household of furniture (not the prettiest, but usable) to a family that lost their home in a fire a week before a lock-out. We have been able to provide refrigerators to people who need them (When banks require one with rotted food to be removed, we test it, if it works well, we pay a neighbor with literally no sense of smell to clean it for us). I feel like we are getting paid to provide a service and we do a good job. Most banks don't seem to care what we do with the stuff, so we have found people who are in need, and we give it away rather than throwing it away. we also freecycle. Yeah, we keep coins. No, we don't remove appliances or fixtures unless requested to do so by our clients.
He has had one client who required dump receipts and photos of everything being dumped at the landfill before we got paid for the TO, but most banks just want their properties cleaned up and ready to sell.

Donating to charities is always a good thing. In some cases & locations its harder than others to do this in a timely mannor But we also offer the tax info to the owner of the property for anything we can donate. This gives them some return on their nvestment in our services & helps the community as well, & of course helps us on disposal charges. In our opinion however if anyone that does P.P goes in with the mindset of "SCORING FREE STUFF" there not trust worthy,& they are not focusing on there 1st. priority which is the obligation they have to the owner & the job of "preserving" the property not destroying its value even further.

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Bluegrass Property Preservation
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This was new for me in real estate. Good info. though.