No writ of possession? If the tenant appears to have left on their own, or the case has not been through court, a different part of the same statute governs and none of the periods below apply; that one goes to your attorney.
A writ of possession puts the landlord back into the unit. It does not empty it. The Sheriff's Office, Civil Process Division, executes the writ and places the landlord in lawful possession, and then everybody leaves — while the sofa, the mattresses, the boxes in the closet and whatever is in the second bedroom are exactly where they were. That gap is where this page starts.
You may have typed eviction cleanout charlotte to get here, or rental property cleanout charlotte. Both name the same job: a unit that has to be empty before it can be turned.
A summary ejectment in Mecklenburg County is heard by a magistrate in small claims court, the Clerk of Superior Court issues the writ, and the Sheriff's Office executes it. There is no separate Charlotte version of any of this. It is state statute, and the same words govern a unit in Matthews, Mint Hill, Huntersville or Pineville as govern one two blocks off Tryon Street.
The statute governing property left behind in a residential rental is North Carolina General Statute § 42-25.9, which sits in Article 2A of Chapter 42 — Ejectment of Residential Tenants. Subsections (g) and (h) are the two quoted here, and both run from execution of the writ. § 42-25.9(d) also reaches property a tenant “fails to remove … at the time of execution of a writ of possession,” and offers a further alternative to (g) and (h). That ellipsis is a truncation, and what it removes is load-bearing: the omitted words are “such property,” which point back to a dollar limit stated earlier in the same sentence of (d), so the subsection is narrower than the quoted fragment on its own suggests. The limit itself is in the linked PDF. (d) is not covered on this page, and it is an attorney's question. Here is (g), in the statute's own words rather than a summary of them.
We can tell you what the statute says; we can't tell you how it applies to your unit — that's a question for your attorney, and the Clerk of Superior Court's office in Mecklenburg County can confirm the dates in your own case file. Those two offices do different jobs: the clerk's file is the record of what was issued and when it came back, and what may be done about it belongs to a lawyer.
This page quotes the section and links the source so it can be read in full, and it stops there. It does not work out what any particular unit, any particular set of dates, or any particular pile of belongings adds up to.
The same section carries a second rule for the same writ path. It attaches to a different fact pattern, and it is written around a dollar threshold rather than around a landlord's preference.
Two things about that threshold, and both of them matter more than the figure does. It is the total value of all the property remaining in the unit, measured at the time of execution — not a per-item price and not a guess from the doorway. And it is a valuation, which means somebody has to make it, and 704 Junk does not make it.
The words “deemed abandoned” in § 42-25.9(h) are the statute's own, and they attach to the specific fact pattern and the dollar threshold described there. They are not a description of a unit that looks full of junk to the person standing in the doorway.
We'll connect you with an independent local hauler. The figure above is the statute's threshold, not a price. For a hired load, see the home page rate card. These are starting prices. Your hauler confirms the final price on-site after reviewing the items, before anything is loaded.
If you are hauling it out yourself, check the date with your attorney first. The material in a rental unit is ordinary household bulky waste on Mecklenburg County's residential schedule — beds, sofas, a table, bags of clothing, boxes. The figure that decides the arithmetic is not the headline price, though. It is how the county's sheet counts what it is charging for.
Read that way the sum changes shape. A furnished one-bedroom is not one unit at the gate; it is several loads, each one priced, each one loaded and unloaded by whoever is standing in the apartment.
This is the sentence that matters most on the page, so it is written plainly: the date comes from the landlord, not from us.
Tell us the date when you send the details. We make the referral to a local hauler, and your hauler works out a day with you from that date.
We do not calculate that date and we do not check it. It comes off the writ and the court file, and we never see either one.
Tell your hauler if the date moves. If somebody shows up claiming the property, that is a question for your attorney.
Before you settle on a date, get your own attorney's read on your situation — and the Clerk of Superior Court's office in Mecklenburg County can confirm what is in your file and when the writ was issued and returned. Text a photo when the date is settled.
A cleanout after an eviction is one kind of request. You can also send furniture, appliances, mattresses, garage and attic clutter, estate cleanouts, office furniture and yard debris. A foreclosure trashout or a bank-owned property cleanout comes in the same way, and so does an ordinary move-out. Property managers can send apartment cleanouts between tenants.
The full item list and the published rate card are on the home page. If the question is where the material can go, that is the Mecklenburg County disposal explainer; if it is the rest of the property rather than the unit, start at cleanout services.
If some of what is in the unit is wet paint, oils, fuels, chemicals, asbestos, medical or biohazard waste, or ammunition, say so when you reach out.
The statute as it is written, the county's gate price, and who gives the date.
§ 42-25.9(g) provides that seven days after being placed in lawful possession by execution of a writ of possession, a landlord may dispose of personal property remaining on the premises in accordance with that section and G.S. 42-36.2(b). § 42-25.9(g) also provides that during the seven-day period a landlord may move for storage purposes but “shall not throw away, dispose of, or sell” any items of personal property remaining on the premises. How that reads against a particular unit is an attorney's question; the statute itself is § 42-25.9.
§ 42-25.9(h) provides that where the total value of all property remaining on the premises at the time of execution of a writ of possession in an action for summary ejectment is less than five hundred dollars ($500.00), the property is deemed abandoned five days after the time of execution. That threshold turns on a valuation of everything remaining in the unit, taken at the time of execution, and 704 Junk does not make it.
No. Everything on this page is the writ-of-possession path. Where no writ of possession has been executed, a different part of the same statute governs and none of the writ-of-possession periods apply; that one goes to your attorney. Removing a residential tenant outside the court process is addressed separately, at N.C.G.S. § 42-25.6, which states that a residential tenant “shall be evicted, dispossessed or otherwise constructively or actually removed from his dwelling unit only in accordance with the procedure prescribed in Article 3 or Article 7 of this Chapter.” Quoted from N.C.G.S. § 42-25.6 as published at ncleg.gov, text checked September 2026. Statutes change.
The landlord, from the writ and the statute, with an attorney's read. We do not read the calendar. Give your hauler the date, and tell your hauler if it moves.
Check the date with your attorney first. Mecklenburg County's residential schedule bills bulky waste at $15 per unit, and the county's own note defines a unit as one load rather than one object — a loaded vehicle plus a loaded trailer counts as two. Trailers over 8 feet are weighed, at $65.00 per ton with a $22 load minimum. Those figures are on the county's residential fee sheet, checked September 2026. A furnished unit is usually several loads before anything else is counted.
Yes. Landlords and property managers can send requests for apartments and rental houses, after an eviction or after an ordinary move-out. Text a photo of the unit and we'll pass it along to a local hauler. Your hauler will get back to you with a rough quote.
No. You can also send furniture, appliances, mattresses, garage and attic clutter, estate cleanouts, yard debris and office furniture, plus ordinary move-outs. The rate card and the item list are on the home page.
Text a photo of the unit, or just describe what is in it. We pass it along to a local hauler.