Residence halls empty by 9:00 a.m. Friday, June 12, 2026. Whatever isn't coming home with you — the mini-fridge, the twin mattress, the futon, the busted IKEA desk — gone before checkout, at a flat photo-quoted price from $75. We come to the room, carry it out, and haul it the same day. No dragging it to the curb, no improper-checkout fee. No Colorado sales tax on the service.
Send a photo of the pile — exact flat price back in seconds
Upload a Photo & Get Quote →The University of Denver runs its spring closing on a hard clock. Residence halls have to be completely vacated by 9:00 a.m. on Friday, June 12, 2026, with the closing meetings and final checkouts stacked into May 12–19 and finals week. Miss the 9 a.m. cutoff and an improper-checkout fee can land on your student account — and that fee doesn't care that the reason you're late is a mattress you couldn't fit in the Subaru. The problem every June is simple: the stuff that can't come home (the mini-fridge two roommates split, the futon from a Facebook Marketplace deal, a mattress you're not driving back to Kansas) has to be out, and campus dumpsters aren't sized for it. That's the exact gap we fill — book the window, we show up, the room's clear before your parents' car is even loaded.
Snap the mattress, the mini-fridge, whatever's staying behind. Flat price back in seconds — no walkthrough, no "we'll quote on site."
Same-day is usually open, but during the June 12 rush lock a slot a day or two ahead so you're cleared before the 9 a.m. deadline.
A vetted crew lifts everything from the room — up or down the walk-up stairs — and hauls it. Good stuff gets donated. You lift nothing.
Flat and photo-quoted — the carry-out, the drive, and the disposal are already baked in. Here's what the usual end-of-year suspects run:
| Move-out item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Mini-fridge | $155 |
| Twin mattress | $111 |
| Full mattress | $126 |
| Queen mattress | $139 |
| Box spring | $124 |
| Futon | $150 |
| Desk (standard) | $112 |
| Dresser | $169 |
| Bookshelf | $97 |
| Armchair / papasan | $104 |
| Bags of move-out trash (10) | $178 |
$75 minimum. Two roommates clearing a whole apartment usually land on a truck-fill flat rate — a quarter load is $325, a half load $580 — one number for the entire room, mattress and mini-fridge and trash together. No Colorado sales tax on the service.
For context, local Denver haulers quote roughly $60–$99 for a single small item and $199 or so for a quarter truck — our flat number includes carrying it down the dorm or walk-up stairs and the disposal, confirmed before we roll.
| Option | Cost | Speed | Catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Campus dumpster | Free | Now | Not sized for mattresses or fridges; overflow gets charged back to your hall |
| Drive it home / to a store | Gas + your back | Hours | A twin mattress and a mini-fridge don't fit a packed car; someone has to lift it |
| Denver Large Item Pickup | Free | Up to ~9 weeks | City-trash homes only (not dorms/apartments), curbside, you'll be gone before it comes |
| JunkRabbit | From $75 flat | Same day | None — flat photo price, we carry it out, donation-routed |
Not in any way that helps a student on a June 12 clock. The city's free Large Item Pickup program (Denver 311 · 720-913-1311) only serves city-trash single-family and small-multi homes — dorms and most apartment buildings around DU aren't even on it. And where it does run, it comes only about once every nine weeks on a rotating zone schedule, takes a max of five large items, and is curbside-only, meaning you'd have to muscle the mattress to the street and then leave campus long before the truck ever arrives. Waiting nine weeks is not an option when your key is due back at 9 a.m. Friday. That's the whole reason we exist for this crowd — we come the day you're leaving, carry it out of the room, and it's handled.
End-of-year at DU produces an astonishing amount of perfectly usable stuff — mini-fridges with one year on them, futons, lamps, unopened supplies. We route anything clean and resellable to donation first: ARC Thrift Stores, Goodwill of Colorado, and Habitat for Humanity ReStore all take usable furniture and appliances across the metro, and you can ask for a tax receipt. Mattresses that are still sound go toward recycling rather than the landfill. What's genuinely done gets disposed responsibly, and every load rides tarped — which on the Front Range also keeps the tip fee from doubling for an uncovered truck. It's all inside your flat price.
Student housing around DU is a mix of residence-hall floors and older Platt Park and Old South Pearl walk-up apartments — and both mean stairs. A mattress down three flights, a mini-fridge out of a top-floor unit, a futon that never should have gone up in the first place: that carry-out is exactly what we do, and because Denver is flat ground it's just stairs — no elevator, no hill, no surcharge, it's in the flat price. Street parking on the Pearl Street blocks gets tight during move week; we handle the truck placement so you're not coordinating it between finals.
"Checkout was 9 a.m. and I still had a mattress, a mini-fridge, and a futon at 6 p.m. the night before. Sent a photo, they came that evening, flat price, room empty. No fee on my account."
"Three of us split an Old South Pearl apartment. One flat truck-fill for the whole thing — couches, three mattresses, all the trash. Down two flights, no stair charge. Easiest part of finals week."
"Graduating and driving to Texas, didn't want to haul my furniture. They donated the fridge and the desk and sent me a receipt. Fair price, same day, done before my flight."
When do the halls have to be empty?
9:00 a.m. Friday, June 12, 2026, with closing meetings May 12–19. After 9 a.m. an improper-checkout fee can apply — we schedule right up to the afternoon before.
How much for a mini-fridge and a mattress?
Mini-fridge $155, twin mattress $111, full $126, futon $150 — flat and photo-quoted. Together in one stop is one number. $75 minimum, no Colorado sales tax.
Do you serve apartments, not just dorms?
Both — the residence halls plus student rentals across Platt Park, University, and Old South Pearl (80210). Walk-up stairs are in the flat price.
Can I book same-day during move week?
Usually, but June 12 fills up — if you know your date, book a day or two ahead to guarantee your window.