Complete waste and grounds services for multifamily communities
Trash Caddie is a locally owned valet trash and community cleanliness company based in Annapolis, Maryland, serving apartment, condominium and multifamily communities throughout Maryland, Washington DC and Virginia. We built the company around a simple observation: waste is one of the few property operations that touches every resident, every day, and it is almost always handled as an afterthought. When it fails, it fails visibly — bags in breezeways, an overflowing compactor, odor in a stair tower, pests on the pad and photos of all of it in online reviews.
Our four services address that problem from every angle. Valet trash removes the daily burden from residents and the daily mess from your common areas. Bulk trash removal handles the oversized items that clog a dumpster pad in a single afternoon. Pet waste cleanup keeps grounds, dog parks and relief areas usable in pet-friendly communities. Trash can cleaning attacks the odor and pest source that most properties never actually address. Together they cover the full lifecycle of waste on a multifamily property.
Every service is delivered by a professional, uniformed team on a documented schedule. Every community gets a named point of contact, same-day response on issues, and monthly service reporting that on-site managers can forward to ownership or a board. And every plan is sized to the property after a free walk, because a 90-unit garden community and a 400-unit mid-rise are not the same job.
Valet trash service
Valet trash is our core offering and the reason most communities call. Residents place properly bagged household waste outside their door during the set-out window on scheduled nights. Our team collects from every participating unit, sweeps the breezeway or corridor as they go, and hauls everything to the compactor or dumpster. Five nights per week is standard; three-night schedules suit smaller or lower-density communities.
The operational benefit is immediate. Residents stop carrying bags across parking lots after dark, which means they stop leaving bags outside doors on off nights, stop overloading the pad on weekends, and stop calling the office about the state of the trash area. The leasing benefit is just as real: valet trash is a marketable amenity that costs nothing to tour and shows up in every resident satisfaction survey.
- Doorstep collection from every participating unit
- Transport to the community compactor or dumpster
- Breezeway, stairwell and corridor sweep during the round
- Recycling separation where the community offers it
- Nightly completion reporting for the management office
Bulk trash removal
Bulk items are what turn a well-managed dumpster pad into a liability overnight. One mattress leaning against a compactor invites five more, and by the weekend the pad is unusable and the photos are already circulating. Bulk trash removal takes furniture, mattresses, appliances, electronics and move-out debris off the property on a schedule your residents understand.
Communities can run recurring bulk days, increase frequency during May through August turnover season, or call for on-demand pickups when a large move-out leaves a pile behind. Student housing properties in particular benefit from turnover-week coverage, when a semester's worth of furniture leaves the buildings in a matter of days.
- Furniture, mattresses and box springs
- Appliances staged in approved locations
- Electronics and e-waste routed to compliant disposal
- Move-out boxes, packing material and debris
- Dumpster pad clearing so the compactor stays usable
Pet waste cleanup
Pet-friendly policies fill units, and they also generate one of the most persistent complaint categories in multifamily management. Pet waste cleanup keeps courtyards, green spaces, walking paths, dog parks and designated relief areas clean on a fixed schedule, and keeps waste stations stocked so residents actually have the bags they need.
Beyond the grounds work, we report problem areas back to management: the corner of the courtyard nobody uses correctly, the station that empties twice as fast as the others, the path segment that needs a new receptacle. That reporting turns a recurring complaint into a solvable operations issue.
- Common area, courtyard and green space removal
- Dog park spot cleaning and surface maintenance
- Walking path and perimeter sweeps
- Station restocking with bags and liners
- Problem-area reporting for management
Trash can cleaning
Most odor and pest complaints do not come from waste in the dumpster; they come from residue baked into bins, carts and the dumpster exterior. Trash can cleaning removes that source with professional equipment, eco-friendly products, and a deodorizing and sanitizing treatment after every wash.
Frequency is set by pressure. Communities with enclosed trash rooms or heavy summer odor often run monthly. Others do well bi-monthly or quarterly, with as-needed service after a specific incident. Bundled with valet trash, it is the cheapest way to make a dumpster pad stop being the worst-smelling place on the property.
- Communal bin and cart washing
- Dumpster exterior and lid cleaning
- Individual resident bin cleaning where provided
- Deodorizing and sanitizing after every wash
- Handle, latch and touchpoint cleaning
Who we serve
Trash Caddie works with multifamily communities only. That includes garden-style apartment communities, mid-rise and high-rise buildings, condominium associations, townhome communities under HOA governance, student housing, senior living and age-restricted communities, military and contractor housing, and mixed-use residential above retail. We work directly with on-site managers, regional managers, asset managers, condominium boards and HOA boards.
Because we are focused on one property type, everything from route design to resident communication to reporting is built for the way multifamily communities actually operate: shared infrastructure, high turnover, competing priorities, and a management office that already has enough on its plate.
How proposals work
We do not publish pricing, and we would be doing you a disservice if we did. A responsible proposal depends on door count, building type, route length, access constraints, service nights, container programs and any bundled services. A number posted on a web page would be either meaningless or wrong for your community.
What we do commit to is a clear proposal after a complimentary property walk, one invoice, and no surprise add-ons mid-agreement. Call 443-214-8070 or email info@trashcaddieco.com to get on the calendar.
Service area
We serve communities across Maryland, Washington DC and Virginia. In Maryland that includes Anne Arundel, Calvert, Prince George's, Charles and St. Mary's counties. In the District we cover all four quadrants and the neighborhoods within them. In Virginia we serve Arlington County, the City of Alexandria, Fairfax County, Prince William County and Stafford County.
If your community sits near the edge of that footprint, call anyway. Route feasibility is a conversation, not a map boundary, and we regularly extend rounds when a nearby community makes the route work.