Trashcan ToucanStop sending letters about trash bins.
Bin valet for whole communities across South Bend, Mishawaka and Granger. Run it community-wide out of dues, or let residents opt in individually — either way, the bins stop being the board’s problem.
Or call (574) 440-0731 and ask for Josh.
Nobody joins a board to enforce trash can rules.
Bins left at the curb a day or two past pickup is the complaint that generates more letters than anything else in a residential community. It’s in the covenants, so somebody has to enforce it — and enforcement means a volunteer neighbor writing to another neighbor about a garbage can.
It doesn’t work. The same handful of houses get letters every month, the board burns goodwill, and the street still looks the way it looks. The rule isn’t the problem. The chore is.
Take the chore away and the violation stops happening. That’s the entire pitch: we handle the bins for every home in the community, so there’s nothing left to enforce.
What goes away
- Violation letters about bins left out
- Repeat offenders and the follow-up nobody wants to do
- Neighbor-versus-neighbor complaints landing on the board
- Inconsistent curb appearance on photo day and showings
- Maintenance staff pulling stragglers back off the curb
In Granger there is no trash night to enforce.
Granger is unincorporated township land, so there’s no municipal pickup. Every household contracts its own private hauler, and the hauler picks the day. Which means on a single street in a single subdivision, your neighbors are genuinely on different collection days with different companies.
There is no community-wide trash night. There’s no shared day a covenant can even point at. Bins are out on some driveway somewhere basically every day of the week, and a board has no clean way to write a rule against it — let alone enforce one.
We schedule per household, off each home’s own hauler. So a Granger community can get a uniform curb for the first time without anybody switching haulers or renegotiating anything. That’s not a service a national valet-trash vendor can offer you — it requires knowing the ground.
- Knollwood
- Brookfield
- Heron Bay
- Cobblestone
- Toscana Park
- Bittersweet
The association pays, or the residents do.
Both get the same service. The difference is who writes the check and whether participation is universal.
Community-wide
Best when the board wants a uniform curb and one line item.
The association signs for every home and pays us directly, usually out of the operating budget or folded into dues. Participation is universal, so the curb actually looks consistent — no gaps, no holdouts, nothing left to enforce.
- Every home in the community is covered
- One invoice to the association, one flat monthly amount
- Lowest per-door rate — it scales with the number of homes
- Predictable line item that doesn’t move month to month
- Nothing for individual residents to sign up for or remember
Opt-in
Best when the board wants to offer it without spending dues.
The community endorses it and we handle the rest. Residents sign up and pay us individually — the association carries no cost and no administration. Because we’re running one route through one neighborhood, participating residents get a better rate than they would on their own.
- Zero cost and zero admin for the association
- Residents bill directly with us, cancel anytime
- Discounted per-door rate versus signing up solo
- Works as a resident perk without a board vote on spending
- Can convert to community-wide later if uptake is high
What it costs
We quote per community, because the number depends on how many homes are in it, how many totes each home runs, and which model you pick. Our standard residential rate is $60/mo at the charter rate and $70/mo regular — community pricing comes in under that per door, and gets better as the count goes up.
Tell us roughly how many homes you have and we’ll come back with a real number, not a range.
The same service, every home, every week.
- Totes to the curb before collection and back after the truck runs
- Scheduled per home — municipal calendars in South Bend and Mishawaka, private hauler days in Granger
- Holiday shifts followed automatically, per that city’s calendar
- Consistent service through Michiana winters
- Missed pickups credited automatically, no dispute needed
- No contracts — the association or the resident can cancel anytime
- One point of contact who actually knows your community
Four steps.
- Tell us the community, roughly how many homes, and which model you’re considering.
- We check coverage and collection reality for those addresses, then send a per-door number.
- You take it to the board, or straight to residents if you’re going opt-in. We’ll give you something you can hand out.
- We walk the neighborhood, note where each home keeps its bins, and start on the next collection cycle.
Tell us about your community.
A rough home count is enough to start. We’ll come back with a per-door number and answer whatever the board is going to ask you.
Before you take it to a vote.
Do all the homes have to participate?
Only under the community-wide model, and that’s the point of it — universal participation is what makes the curb look consistent. If you want it optional, the opt-in model exists for exactly that.
Are we locked into a term?
No. There are no contracts on either model. An association can end community-wide service, and an individual resident on the opt-in model can cancel, at any time.
What if a resident already has a valet service or does it themselves?
Under opt-in, nothing changes for them. Under community-wide, they’re covered either way — most people who were doing it themselves simply stop.
Does this replace our hauler?
No, and we’re not trying to. Your homes keep whatever collection they already have — the city in South Bend and Mishawaka, private haulers in Granger. We only handle the part between the house and the curb.
How does billing work for a scattered rental portfolio?
The same way as a subdivision. If you manage single-family rentals across more than one city, we can run them on one invoice — the addresses don’t have to be adjacent.