MOVING OUT
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.
The deadline for move-out Spring 2025 is May 3 at 2 p.m. We encourage residents to not wait and move-out after finals due to limited parking during commencement rehearsals and events.
Change your mind before the end of the semester? Visit our terminating your contract page if you need to cancel or terminate your contract with HRE.
On Campus
| Step 1 | Clean your space and remove all belongings. Any belongings remaining in the space after check-out will be removed, the student charged for that removal, and these items will enter Housing & Residential Education's abandoned property process. |
| Step 2 | Clean and defrost rented refrigerators and microwaves from College Products. You will leave them in your room. |
| Step 3 | Required: Prior to leaving campus, stop by your area's front desk. |
| Step 4 | Complete the check-out process prior to May 3 at 2pm. This includes:
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| Step 5 | Be sure to verify the status of your mail services via the front desk:
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| Step 6 | Clean your space and remove all belongings. Any belongings remaining in the space after check-out will be removed, the student charged for that removal, and these items will enter Housing & Residential Education's abandoned property process. |
Off Campus: Turning In Room Key
Turn your room and mailbox key in at the Front desk of the Marriott Honors Community.
Summer Storage
Our official storage provider, Dorm Room Movers, can help you with your stuff this summer so you can focus on what really matters, college!
This is how easy it is: They send you boxes and tape. You pack - that’s it. Their movers will pick up your items, store them while you’re away, and deliver everything back to you when you return! Dorm Room Movers can also ship boxes home or wherever you need them.
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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.
Damage Charge Process
- May 19, 2025: Students will receive notice of damage charges from their spring 2024 move-out in the Housing U portal. This notice will come via email to the student’s @utah.edu email address.
- May 30, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. MST: The deadline for students, who did not complete the express check-out process, to appeal damage charges. Responses will be sent by June 13, 2025.
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- Please note that only students are able to engage in the damage charge appeal process.
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- Students should follow the instructions outlined in their damage notice to complete the appeal process. Appeal forms will be submitted in the Housing U portal. Please note that appeals will not be accepted after the deadline.
- What if I completed an express check-out?
- Students who completed the express check-out process are ineligible to appeal damage charges. Students agreed to this during their check-out period, acknowledging this restriction during the key return process
- What fees are not eligible for appeal?
- Improper check-out and lost key charges are not eligible for appeal.
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 |