Nate - you offer some great links! As far as policy on scrapping, every company should have a policy on how to handle this, as well as, handling property left behind by tenants who have moved, been evicted or abandoned property; on what to do with appliances that are no longer working (refrigerators can't just be thrown in a dumpster.) Some things can be sold but the money should be directed to Corporate/Owner to be distributed either back to the property itself in the form of petty cash or back in the budget from which it came from originally (coded to the expense item in the budget.) To allow onsite Maintenance to do whatever is actually a dangerous practice.