Whole-property and storage unit cleanouts
The biggest jobs we do, and the ones least suited to being rushed. Handled at a pace that leaves room to open a box, change your mind, and set something aside.
Estate cleanouts
Most estate clearances happen on somebody else’s clock — a settlement date, a listing date, a sibling flying home on Sunday. That pressure is usually the worst part, because the work itself is not complicated. It is just relentless, and it is full of decisions that are not really about furniture.
So the way we run these is deliberately unhurried in one specific respect: nothing leaves a room until somebody has said it can. Cash, documents, photographs, jewelry and paperwork turn up inside furniture far more often than people expect — in drawers that were never emptied, taped under shelves, inside books. If we find something like that, it stops and it comes to you.
- Room-by-room, so you can work ahead of us or behind us
- Keep, donate and discard piles agreed before anything is carried
- Documents and photographs set aside rather than binned
- Appliances, mattresses and electronics separated for the right facility
- Attics, basements, garages, sheds and detached buildings included
- Property left swept and ready for a realtor or a locksmith
Storage unit cleanouts
A storage unit is a monthly payment for a decision nobody wants to make. The maths gets uncomfortable fast: a $150-a-month unit held for three years has cost $5,400 to store things that would not sell for a fraction of that.
Clearing one is mercifully straightforward compared with a house — ground floor, roller door, drive-up access at most facilities, no stairs and no neighbors to work around. The hard part is being there to say what goes. Plenty of people do that over the phone while we are standing in the unit.
Bring the gate code and the padlock key, and tell the facility office you are clearing out that day. That is the whole preparation.
Three things worth sorting before the day
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Hazardous items
Estates and old garages are where paint, solvents, motor oil, pesticides, propane tanks and car batteries accumulate. We cannot take any of it. Every county in this region runs a household hazardous waste program — set that material aside and we will point you at the nearest one.
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The tire pile
Very common in estate garages, and specifically restricted. Prince George’s County residents may drop a maximum of five scrap tires up to 17″ per year; past that, a Tire Hauler’s License is required. Count them before the day rather than after.
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Anything genuinely worth money
We are a junk removal company, not an appraiser or an estate sale firm. If there may be antiques, tools, coins or collectables in the house, get somebody who values that in before we clear it. It is much harder to undo afterwards.
County rules checked September 2026 against Prince George’s County published guidance. More on Maryland disposal →
Start with a conversation
These jobs are hard to price from a form, and they are often being arranged by somebody who has a great deal else going on. Call or text (978) 328-4523 and we will walk through it. If a visit makes more sense than photos, that costs nothing.