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, and it is the only part of the afternoon a hauling company is useful for.
You may have typed eviction cleanout charlotte to get here, or rental property cleanout charlotte. Both name the same afternoon: a two-person crew, a truck at the door, and 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 is a hauler's page. It 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: 704junk does not make that valuation and will not be asked to.
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, and nobody on a hauling crew is qualified to apply them.
The other question that arrives with this job is whether a truck rental beats a crew. For a rental unit the material 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 with a deadline. Set that against a single price for the whole thing — ours comes off the published rate card on the home page, once we know what is in there.
This is the sentence that matters most on the page, so it is written plainly and it is the same sentence whoever answers the phone will say.
We book these cleanouts to a date the landlord gives us. Call us the day the writ is executed and we will walk the unit, price it off the published rate card, and hold a crew slot for the date you tell us the property can go. What we will not do is show up before that date — an early haul turns a routine cleanout into a claim, and it is the landlord's name on the claim, not ours.
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. If the date moves, tell us and the crew slot moves with it.
One thing we do commit to on site: if somebody shows up claiming the property while the crew is working, the crew stops and calls you.
Before a date goes on our calendar, 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 job on a list, not a separate company. The same crew hauls furniture, appliances, mattresses, garage and attic clutter, estate cleanouts, office furniture and yard debris. A foreclosure trashout or a bank-owned property cleanout is the same truck and the same rate card, and so is an ordinary turnover where nobody was evicted and the last tenant simply left a sofa and a broken lamp.
The full item list and the published rate card are on the home page. If the question is where the material actually ends up, that is the Mecklenburg County disposal explainer; if it is the rest of the property rather than the unit, start at cleanout services.
Our refusal list is short and it exists for regulatory reasons: wet paint, oils, fuels, chemicals, asbestos, medical or biohazard waste, and ammunition cannot go on the truck at any price. If some of what is in the unit is on that list, say so when you reach out. We work around it and take the rest.
The statute as it is written, the county's gate price, and where our crew's work stops.
§ 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 linked above and dated.
§ 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 — 704junk does not make that valuation and will not be asked to.
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 periods above 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.
No. We book these cleanouts to a date the landlord gives us, and we do not pull a job forward to save an afternoon. If the date moves, tell us and the crew slot moves with it. We are not working from our own read of the calendar, because the calendar is not ours to read.
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 PDF linked above, checked September 2026. A furnished unit is usually several loads before anything else is counted.
No. The truck is full-service: furniture, appliances, mattresses, garage and attic clutter, estate cleanouts, yard debris and office furniture, plus ordinary turnovers where nothing legal is happening at all. 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 come back with a number off the published rate card, and nothing goes on the truck before the date you give us.