Built for Austin.

Why we built JunkRabbit in Austin

Austin junk removal is dominated by a handful of national chains that charge a brand premium for a job dozens of local haulers already do for less. The problem was never supply. It was that you couldn't find the good local crews, compare them, or trust the price.

So we built the bridge. You send a photo; we identify every item and price it from real Austin market data; vetted, insured haulers compete for your job; and you get the cheapest one at one transparent flat price — the garage load, the estate staging, the drive out to the suburbs already in the number. No on-site "estimate," no upsell at the door, no surprise surcharges.

What it costs

Every price is published before you talk to anyone. Single items are priced individually; anything bigger than a room's worth is priced by how much of the truck it fills.

The intermediate rungs are published too — 3/8 is $338, 5/8 is $513, 7/8 is $661. The flat price covers the crew, the truck, the drive out to you and the disposal fee at the gate. Full breakdown on the Austin cost guide.

Why a minimum exists at all: Texas Disposal Systems publishes a 2025 gate rate of roughly $60 per ton with a two-ton minimum at its Creedmoor landfill, the commercial gate for the Austin area. A truck, a two-person crew and that gate fee cost the same whether they come for one chair or ten.

What "built for Austin" actually means

• The garage is the basement. Austin homes are built on slabs — no basements — so the garage is where decades of stuff piles up. Clearing it is the most common job we do, and we haul it from the garage, never the curb, so the HOA never sees it.
• We know the move-out. UT leases end July 31, so West Campus and Riverside overflow with furniture every August — we clear whole apartments during the crush, often same-day, donation-routed.
• We know the estates. Tarrytown, Westlake, and Georgetown's Sun City downsizing and whole-home clears are routine — discreet, careful with fine furniture, donation-routed.
• We know the towers. Rainey Street, downtown, and Domain high-rises want a Certificate of Insurance and a reserved freight elevator — we handle both. Buildings here typically ask for at least $1M general liability per occurrence naming the management company, with the freight elevator booked several business days ahead.
• We speak your language. Spanish-speaking crews for East Austin (78702, 78721), Riverside and Montopolis (78741, 78742), and beyond, on request — en español aquí.

Where we go

Our footprint is deliberately tight, because route density is what keeps a flat price honest at the edges. We cover the Travis core — downtown and Rainey Street, the Domain and North Austin, East Austin, Hyde Park and Crestview, South Congress and South Austin, Riverside, West Campus, Mueller, Circle C, Tarrytown and Westlake, and Barton Creek. North of that we run the inner Williamson belt: Round Rock, Cedar Park, Leander, Georgetown, Pflugerville and Hutto. South we cover inner Hays — Buda and Kyle — and west, Lakeway and the Lake Travis gated communities, where vendor gate check-in is usually required and we arrange it ahead of your window.

Why the curb matters so much here

Most junk-removal advice written about Austin assumes you can put things at the street and wait. Two things make that bad advice across most of this metro.

First, the city program has real limits. Austin Resource Recovery runs an on-demand bulk request system (austintexas.gov/service/ondemand) that gives eligible households a limited number of free pickups per service year with a volume cap on each, curbside only, City-of-Austin curbside-trash customers only — apartments and condos excluded. Second, the suburbs aren't on that system at all: Round Rock, Cedar Park, Georgetown, Leander, Pflugerville, Kyle and the rest are separate cities running their own contracted collection on set bulk days. In a master-planned HOA subdivision, a driveway pile that waits days for the truck is exactly what the appearance covenant is written to fine.

So we built the service around never touching the curb. We come to the room, the garage, the storage unit or the eleventh floor, carry it out ourselves, and leave with it in the same visit. See how the HOA bulk trash rules work.

Where your stuff actually goes

Donation first, landfill last — and in Austin that's not a slogan, it's how the economics work. Usable furniture, housewares, bikes, tools and kids' gear are routed to Goodwill Central Texas, the Habitat for Humanity ReStore, ARC Resale and the Austin Furniture Bank, plus the city's MoveOutATX donation stations during the UT move-out season. Metal — shelving, appliance bodies, trampoline and swing-set frames, old exercise equipment — goes out as scrap. TVs, monitors, desktops and printers go to Austin e-waste recyclers. Refrigerators, freezers and AC units go through EPA-certified refrigerant recovery before anything else happens to them. What genuinely can't be reused goes to the TDS Creedmoor landfill (Texas Disposal Systems) south of town.

How it works

• 1. Get a quote — pick items, choose a truck size, or upload a photo.
• 2. Review & accept — see an itemized flat price; adjust anything; accept and we schedule.
• 3. Best hauler matched — vetted, insured local crews compete; you get the best price, picked up as soon as today.

When Austin calls us

• The garage purge — the signature suburban job, truck-fill priced and swept clean.
• Move-out and lease-end — from a West Campus student unit in August to a Domain high-rise turnover.
• Downsizing and estates — Tarrytown, Westlake, Sun City; discreet and donation-routed.
• An appliance swap — the old fridge or washer out the day the new one lands.
• Renovation and infill debris — East Austin teardown-rebuild leftovers and remodel debris.
• STR and rental turnover — the SXSW, ACL and F1 churn across the 04 and the east side.

Service areas

What we haul

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