Property managers
Apartment dog waste station service: same $15 week, units as homes
A leasing-office can is not a pet waste program. Garden apartments, podium buildings, and fenced dog runs use the same Scooponomics rate HOA boards use: $15 per station per week, weekly only. Type units as homes. That is an estimate for the owner packet — not a formal quote.
Why apartments fill differently
Turnover resets the dog census every lease cycle. A pretty station by the office does not cover the dumpster run, the garage-row sidewalk, or the creek-side path residents actually walk. Weekend guests add waste the unit count never sees. The office still needs one shared number before the next owner call.
Scooponomics does not invent a mid-week pickup or a “busy season” adder. Weekly is the method. If a dog run is the busy can, plan the high end of bag use — about 1 roll (200 bags) per station per week there, and about 0.5 on a quiet interior can. Read layout and bags before you buy a case.
What to type
- Stations you can photograph today, or the count you want on a weekly route.
- Units in the homes field. That unlocks the Scooponomics Index and the per-home (per-unit) split.
- Dogs if the office counted them. Otherwise the calculator starts at 0.68 per door — all units, including units with no dog.
- What you pay now, if a landscaper or vendor line already exists. Savings stay on the results cards. There is no mid-flow popup.
Example — not a named community
240 units, 6 stations. Weekly $90. Monthly $389.70 ($15 × 6 × 4.33). Starting layout from units would be about 12 stations (2 per 40). Six cans on 240 doors is light if a dog run and a dumpster alley are both in play. The estimate still uses the six you typed unless you change the count. Load 240 units / 6 stations.
When to get a quote
Request a quote when you want someone to walk gates, the dog run, and the path residents use after 6 p.m. Put the city on the form. Notes that help: whether the run is resident-only, whether the current vendor is weekly, and whether landscaping is already scooping the islands.
Service in Nashville-area, Atlanta, and Knoxville markets is handled on the ground by Doo Doo Blues where they already run routes. Scooponomics stays the calculator. Same $15 math everywhere on this site.
Hardware after the math
Scout’s rotomolded station is the unit we point to on
scoutstations.com.
Commercial metal posts and bag cases sit on the
shop row with tag scooponomics-20.
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Apartment questions
Can apartments use the same $15 dog-station math as an HOA?
Yes. Treat units as homes. Weekly is $15 per station. Monthly is $15 × stations × 4.33. Annual is that monthly number × 12. Board or property-manager estimate, not a formal quote.
What should a property manager type into Scooponomics?
Stations you have now or want, then units as homes. Override dogs when the office has a better census than 0.68 per door. Add what you pay now if you want the savings line on the results cards.