Denver
Apartment Move-Out Cleanouts in
Denver
Lease is up and the unit is full of what won't fit in the moving truck — we clear it. Whole apartments, the mattress-and-couch leftovers, or a single room, carried down the stairs and hauled at a flat photo-quoted price from $241 a truck-fill. Third-floor Cap Hill walk-up with no elevator? That carry-down is in the flat price — no elevator surcharge, no per-flight fee. No Colorado sales tax on the service.
How an apartment cleanout works in Denver
1 · Send photos
Snap the unit — the rooms, the pile by the door, whatever's staying behind. You get an exact flat price back in seconds, priced by item or as a truck-fill for the whole apartment.
2 · Pick a time
Same-day is usually open, and during the April–September lease-turn crush we plan around move-out deadlines. Tower with a COI or freight-elevator window? We arrange it.
3 · We carry it down & haul
A vetted crew clears the unit from the top floor down — stairs, no elevator, no problem — and hauls it. Mattresses recycled, usable furniture donated. You lift nothing.
The Denver apartment reality: dense, pre-war, and flat
Denver's rental core isn't glass towers — it's Capitol Hill and Cheesman Park, block after block of 1900s–1920s brick walk-up buildings and grand mansions carved into apartments, plus the mansion-conversion units around City Park West. These are the highest-turnover addresses in the city, and almost none of them have an elevator. Add the Hampden and Southmoor garden-apartment and condo belt out by the Denver Tech Center, the fast-churn complexes of Aurora along East Colfax, and the redevelopment blocks of Sun Valley near Empower Field, and you have a metro that turns over apartments constantly — every lease-end, every relocation, every new transplant arriving mid-move.
The saving grace is that Denver is flat. In San Francisco or Seattle a walk-up carry means fighting a hill on top of the stairs, and everyone charges for it. Here it's just stairs on level ground — so the honest promise is clean: we carry it down whatever floor it's on, and the stairs are already in the flat price. No elevator surcharge, no per-flight fee, no "heavy carry" line added the day of. The number you get from your photo is the number you pay.
How much does an apartment cleanout cost in Denver?
Flat and photo-quoted. A leftover pile or a studio starts at the $75 minimum; a whole unit is usually cheaper priced as a truck-fill. The carry-down, the drive, and the disposal are all in the number.
| Job | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Minimum job (a leftover pile) | $75 |
| Truck-fill — 1/4 (a studio / one room) | $241 |
| Truck-fill — 1/2 (a 1-bedroom) | $431 |
| Truck-fill — 3/4 (a large 1–2 bed) | $587 |
| Truck-fill — full (a full 2-bed unit) | $732 |
| Sofa / couch (single) | $126 |
| Queen mattress | $103 |
| King mattress | $114 |
$75 minimum. Carry-down and disposal included. A few big pieces? We add up their flat prices; clearing most of the unit, we price it as a truck-fill and give you the lower of the two. No Colorado sales tax on the service.
For context, traditional full-service haulers price a whole-unit clear by how much of the truck you fill and often only confirm the number on site — national cost guides put a full truckload in the $550–$900 range and a two-bed move-out clear well into four figures. Our truck-fill is quoted flat from your photos before we roll, and it already includes carrying everything down.
4 ways to clear a move-out apartment in Denver
| Option | Cost | Speed | Catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Large Item Pickup | Free | Up to ~9 weeks | 5 items max, curbside-only — and most apartment buildings aren't even on the city trash route |
| Rent a truck & DIY | ~$50–$150 + dump fees | A full day | You carry every piece down the stairs and drive it to the landfill yourself |
| Traditional full-service hauler | ~$550–$900+ | 1–3 days | Priced by truck volume, often confirmed only on site; stair/elevator upcharges common |
| JunkRabbit | Flat, from $241 | Same day | None — flat photo price, we carry it down, no elevator surcharge, donation-routed |
Does Denver pick up apartment furniture?
Barely, and usually not for renters at all. The City & County of Denver runs a free Large Item Pickup program (scheduled through Denver 311 · 720-913-1311), but it's built for single-family trash customers, not apartment buildings — most multi-unit properties use a private hauler and aren't on the city route in the first place. Even where it does apply, it runs only about once every nine weeks, caps you at five large items, is curbside-only, and excludes appliances, electronics, and tires entirely. A one-bedroom move-out — a sofa, a mattress, a dresser, a desk, a couple of lamps, and the pile of boxes — blows past the five-item cap before you've cleared the living room, and no lease deadline waits nine weeks. That's the gap we fill: we come to the unit, carry it all down the stairs today, and haul it in one flat-priced trip.
What we clear out of a Denver apartment
- Whole-unit move-out clears — everything left behind, broom-ready for the next tenant.
- The mattress-and-couch haul — the two things you can't curb in Denver, taken together in one trip.
- Bedroom & living-room furniture — dressers, bed frames, sofas, tables, carried down from any floor.
- The leftover pile — bagged clothes, boxes, small electronics, the closet nobody emptied.
- Landlord & property-manager turnovers — flat quotes that are easy to budget or bill back.
What happens to it after we carry it down
A move-out is full of things with life left in them, so we route donation first — usable sofas, dressers, and tables go to Goodwill of Colorado, ARC Thrift Stores, or Habitat for Humanity ReStore, with a tax receipt on request. Mattresses can't go in regular Denver trash and don't belong in a landfill, so they're routed to a mattress recycler where they're broken down for their steel, foam, and fiber. What's genuinely worn out is disposed responsibly, every load tarped — which on the Front Range also keeps the tip fee from doubling for an uncovered truck. It's all in the flat price, and it lines up with Denver's push toward waste diversion.
Walk-ups, parking, and the buildings we know
The details are where an apartment cleanout goes sideways, so we handle them. A Capitol Hill or Cheesman Park third-floor walk-up means a stair-carry with no elevator — routine for us, and priced flat with no per-flight fee. Parking on a packed Cap Hill block is our problem, not yours: we stage the truck legally and carry from the unit. A Cherry Creek or downtown condo tower means a building COI and a reserved freight-elevator and loading-dock window, which we file and book with management. And in the Hampden and Aurora complexes, where turnover is fast and multilingual, we've got crews who can speak your tenant's language. Wherever the unit is, we come to it — you never drag anything to the curb.
When people call us for an apartment cleanout
- Lease-end move-out — the furniture that won't make the next place, cleared before the deadline.
- Spring–summer relocation — the April-to-September churn, when transplants arrive and leases turn all at once.
- Tenant turnover — landlords and managers flipping a unit broom-ready between leases.
- Downsizing a rental — an older resident moving to something smaller, discreet and donation-routed.
- The unit the last tenant abandoned — left full, cleared in one flat-priced visit.
Why Denver renters and landlords choose JunkRabbit
- Flat price from a photo — you know the number before we arrive; no on-site upsell.
- No elevator surcharge — walk-up carry-downs are in the flat price, because Denver is flat.
- No tax surprise — Colorado doesn't tax the service, so the quote is all-in.
- Donation-first & licensed — usable furniture donated, mattresses recycled; a licensed, insured Denver hauler with tarped loads.
What Denver apartment customers say
"Fourth-floor walk-up in Cap Hill, lease ended Saturday. They carried a whole apartment down four flights — couch, queen mattress, dresser — flat price from the photos, no stairs surcharge like the last company tried to hit me with. Broom-clean by noon."
"I manage a Cheesman Park building and use them for every turnover. Photo quote, they handle the parking, unit's cleared same day and easy to bill back. Mattress and sofa gone in one trip."
"Moved to Denver in July, into a Hampden apartment the last tenant left half-full. Flat price, gone the next morning, and they donated what was still good. No tax on top, no games."
Apartment cleanout questions, answered
How much does it cost in Denver?
Flat and photo-quoted: a leftover pile starts at the $75 minimum, a whole unit prices as truck-fill — 1/4 $241, 1/2 $431, 3/4 $587, full $732. Single pieces have their own price (sofa $126, queen mattress $103, king $114). Carry-down and disposal included, no Colorado sales tax.
Is there a stairs or elevator surcharge?
No. Denver is flat, so a third-floor walk-up carry-down is part of the flat price — no per-flight fee, no elevator upcharge.
Can you take the mattress and couch together?
Yes — one trip. You can't curb either for regular Denver trash, so we haul them together, recycle the mattress, and donate the couch if it's resellable.
Can you make my lease deadline?
Usually same- or next-day, and we plan around the April–September lease-turn peak. Send photos and we'll give you the soonest real window.
Apartment cleanouts across Denver
Frequently asked questions
Is there a surcharge for a third-floor walk-up with no elevator?
No. Denver's apartment belts are flat ground, so a third-floor carry in a Capitol Hill or Cheesman Park walk-up is just part of the flat price — no per-flight fee, no elevator surcharge, no hill-country upcharge. We quote it from the photo and the number doesn't change because of the stairs.
Can you take the mattress and the couch in the same trip?
Yes — that's the classic move-out haul. A queen mattress and a sofa carried out together is one flat photo-quoted number, and we route the mattress to a recycler and the couch to donation where it's resellable. You can't leave either at a Denver curb for regular trash, so doing it in one visit is the clean answer.
How do you handle parking on a Cap Hill block with no space?
We deal with it. Our crews work Denver's densest apartment streets every day, so we stage the truck legally, use the nearest loading spot, and carry from the unit — you don't have to reserve anything or coordinate the parking yourself.
Can you turn the unit around same-day for a lease deadline?
Usually, when a crew and truck slot are open — and during the April-to-September lease-turn peak we plan for exactly this. Send photos, get a flat quote, and we'll clear the unit broom-ready for the next tenant, often the same or next day.
Do you work with landlords and property managers?
Constantly. Flat photo quotes make a turnover easy to budget or bill back, and we clear the whole unit — furniture, mattresses, and the leftover pile — so it's ready to show. Denver, Aurora, and the surrounding suburbs are all covered.
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