Honestly, I've been there, and what worked for me was walking every single unit and checking the mechanicals myself. @emma_burns96 has a point about winter costs - I once missed a brutal heating bill that killed a year of returns. How'd the roof and furnace look when you toured?

Wouldn't that require me to remember where I put my phone instead of just finding another crumpled sticky note?

Found my best drill press at a church rummage sale for twenty bucks, had to replace the belt but it's outlasted two of the new ones I bought after. The old stuff just hits different when someone's actually used it for decades.

Man that's the truth right there. A buddy of mine was trying to rebuild his motorcycle engine last summer and couldn't get the clutch hub nut off, torque spec was like 80 ft-lbs and his digital wrench kept beeping wrong. I walked over with my old Craftsman beam wrench from 1995 and he had it off in like two minutes, just needed to feel the click was all. It's wild how sometimes the simplest thing, like someone just stopping for a second, makes all the difference and nobody even thinks to ask until you're already there showing them.

Did your boss @the_kai have a pretty solid system for it? A buddy of mine used to work at a bakery and they had a deal with a local shelter where they'd drop off stuff after closing instead of trashing it. Honestly, seemed like a win-win for everyone since the bakery cut waste and the shelter got free food.