We hope you enjoyed your time living on campus! As a reminder, your move out should be completed within 24 hours of your last final exam. Change your mind before moving in or before the end of the semester? Visit our terminating your contract page if you need to cancel or terminate your contract with HRE.
Moving Out Resources
- Cleaning supplies, including all-purpose cleaners and vacuums, are available at all of our front desks for check-out.
- Dollies and red carts are available to check out for one-hour periods but supplies are limited.
It is the student’s responsibility to leave their rooms clean of all items when they leave. Everything must be removed. Students are able to take all unwanted clothing, bedding, etc., to the donation box outside of Peterson Heritage Center.
Food items will need to be thrown away (with one exception - canned foods should be given to University Food Pantry). All other items such as bathroom and kitchen items (all items), the student should also throw away.
Items such as driver’s license, passport, keys, birth certificates that are accidentally left will be brought to Housing & Residential Education office, by HRE staff, and attempts will be made to contact the student.
Any items such as electronics, sports equipment, small furniture (not broke) that are left in the room will be kept at HRE for 30 days. After the 30 day wait period, these items will be removed to University Surplus and Salvage as is the University policy. If you are looking for any of these items, after 30 days, you will need to go to Surplus and Salvage to see if your item is still there.
Not sure what to do with that sweater you never wear or the full-length mirror that won't fit in your carry-on bag? Trying to downsize before moving out?
Donate your gently used clothes, linens, unopened pantry food and other dorm items to the red What Goes Around Comes Around Carts! Not only will you lighten your packing, keep high quality items out of the trash, but we'll also make these available to students for FREE next fall!
Note: What Goes Around Comes Around will be available beginning in mid-April for May move-out.
Cleaning Checklists
HOW CLEAN IS CLEAN? Use this guide to ensure your room is clean and ready for check-out:
| Bedroom and Common Areas |
| Clear out all belongings |
| Move furniture back to original placement |
| Dust all furniture & inside of drawers |
| Wipe out window sill and dust blinds |
| Window screens are in |
| Windows locked |
| Wipe down shelf in closet |
| Carefully clean light switches, outlets |
| Clean telephone, dust vents |
| Vacuum carpet |
| Empty and clean Safe |
| Wash and clean out refrigerator and return to PHC 1A/1B, MHC desk, or Lassonde Studios desk |
| Bathroom |
| Scrub shower walls top to bottom, especially the corners (spray bathroom cleaner, let set, scrub clean). Mop shower area |
| Scrub soap scum from shower dish |
| Wash off the shower curtain |
| Spray down toilet inside and out (spray bathroom cleaner, let set, scrub clean) |
| Wash under lid & down front below seat |
| Wash off the tank and clean floor behind toilet |
| Clean mirrors & wipe out medicine cabinet |
| Wash faucets (use non-scratching sponge) |
| Wipe out drawers & cabinets |
| Wipe down the counter top |
| Empty garbage & wash out garbage can |
| Mop floor (scrub stains with brush) |
| Kitchen (where applicable) |
| Wipe down walls, top of cabinets |
| Wipe counter top, inside cabinets, doors, drawers |
| Scrub stove top & front |
| Defrost refrigerator, wash inside walls, produce drawers, shelves, door seals, exterior surfaces, and door handles |
| Scrub dish basin |
| Wash faucets |
| Mop floor (scrub stains with brush) |
| Empty garbage & wash garbage can |
| Take all trash out to the dumpster |