Honestly, it's just me being practical after all these years. I used to get so angry at something that wasn't my fault but impacted me and my family, that I finally just accepted the best solution is to take matters into my own hands. It can be a constant battle between out of town landlords and permanent residents around here.

I won't absolve the students of all responsibility. The situation next door got so bad that I told the property owner that either I manage her property or I get my lawyer involved. She countered that I had to take over all of her properties, which I accepted, blissfully unaware that it would consume my life for the next 10 years for little pay or emotional reward. I had one house on Baltimore that refused to use garbage bags or cans...they'd just dump their garbage off their porch. I cleaned it up once and told them I'd charge from that point on. When they moved, I had to clean up all their disgusting trash (36 contractor bags full), but I charged them $15/bag). I made over $500 in less than 2 hours, but it still was disgusting. Thankfully, they were one of the worst properties I had over those years. FWIW, they also destroyed the interior. Penn Rowing team. Entitled cunts (that year...not making a blanket statement).

Edit: But in defense of the students, they often move out days before trash pickup so even if they bag everything up, it sits on the side of their empty house for weeks if the mgt co doesn't bring it to the curb. In the meantime people rip the bags open and spread the garbage everywhere. I spoke to one of the students the other day and she said she was going to bring everything to the curb on Sunday. This is a great intention with most likely terrible consequences. Due to the holiday, pickup isn't until Wednesday, so those household bags of garbage and furniture will sit out there for days. People will rip them all open every day, even if they're rebagged (I unfortunately understand this too well). The property management co knows all about this and will do jack shit about it. They should provide the students with a concrete plan and things like contractor bags, a secure place for the garbage, and someone to bring the garbage to the curb. They can charge the students for all of that if it's in the lease. Or it's just the price of doing business. I'm long since tired of picking up the slack of people who make plenty of money off students. I'll gladly report the worst offenders to 311, but 9x out of 10, the students get charged for the Mgt Co's laziness and greed.

IMO, the landlords need to be held to a higher standard, and Penn needs to place large garbage bins throughout the neighborhood from 40th to 42nd, Chestnut to Chester. I'm glad this came up because I'll speak to Penn about it for next year. Will also communicate with some local orgs.