Short-Term Rentals
If you are a short-term renter, please dispose of your trash in the outdoor trash can during your stay. The only exception is smelly items, such as lobster tails, fish bones, or meat scraps. Please place those items in a plastic bag, leave them in the freezer, and discard them at the end of your stay.
Our outdoor trash can is usually located in one of three places, all on the left side of the house as you face the house.
At the corner.
Across the street.
Locked inside the white side yard gate – your key will open the gate.
Our outdoor trash can is painted the same color as the house and bears the number 511. You can put your trash in this can or any can, for that matter, depending on where the trash cans have ended up. Don’t worry about which can to put the trash in – we have somewhat of a communal trash system here – if the can is empty, use it, but try to use ours first.
Trash day is typically "any day of the week," and the trash truck usually comes between 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. You may hear the trash truck, but it doesn't stay long, and we almost always fall back to sleep. They usually start on the street behind us, so often you can prepare yourself and hit the ground running if need be. If you hear the truck, get ready to roll if the inside can is full!
A word of caution about “smelly” trash, such as lobster tails, fish bones, and other assorted “stuff”. In our 80-plus degree weather, it doesn’t take long for smelly stuff to get really smelly. You may want to consider freezing your lobster tails, fish carcasses, etc., until the night before the trash truck comes, and then depositing them in the trash can bagged and frozen. If not, try to put that stuff at the bottom of the can to keep the cats out!
Please try to keep a bread crate on the trash can, with a weight on top (e.g., a metal brake rotor or drum). It sometimes, but not often, scares the horses off.