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I ran into this a lot during in university at the end of terms. Lots of people moving out without a lot of time to get rid of their items - in particular international students that couldn't bring items home with them for the summer. Though I never took advantage of the situation, being a student that was also moving myself, I'm certain I lost count of the number of mini fridges, tables, lamps, etc. that were simply being tossed.

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I don't understand that mentality. Couldn't they just leave the things in the apartment? Last time I changed the apartment, I essentially left it with more appliances than there were when I moved in, since they were perfectly fine, but I didn't have any use for them anymore.

Not sure about every case, but moving out of my college apartment we were actually fined for anything left behind. Naturally, the hallway was basically a dump on the last day.

I like your suggestion in theory, but what if the new tenants don't need the appliances you had left? Then they would have to take care of removing it.

If there were some app that could connect moving-out and moving-in tenants and both sides could agree on what the moving-out tenants would leave behind.

I’m not sure you need another app for that. Both people would need to sign up just for this one-off task. Usually if you take over a flat the previous owner will just ask you if you want to take over x or y in my experience. Also from my experience there’s a pretty good market in Facebook groups or classifieds for these things in university cities as it happens all the time. When I wanted to get rid of some item I just snapped a picture, out it on eBay classifieds and 1h later someone would come and take some table, chair, sofa...and leave. That seems like a solved problem already.

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