Estate Cleanout in Austin
Whole-home estate cleanouts, handled with care — from the Tarrytown and Westlake estates to the Sun City retiree belt in Georgetown. Attic to garage, discreet, donation-routed with receipts for the estate, broom-clean at the end. Priced flat from photos, from $431 for a half truck to $732 for a full one, with no on-site estimate required before you get a number.
A few pictures per room, plus the attic hatch, the garage and the storage unit if there is one. That is enough to quote the whole job — no appointment, no estimator walking through the house first, which matters when you are managing this from out of state.
Give us the keep list — the pieces going to family, the documents, the safe, the things that are still being decided. We work from it room by room and confirm before anything leaves the house.
An insured crew works top to bottom in one scheduled visit, or consecutive days for a large home. Usable goods go to donation with receipts, the rest is recycled or disposed of, and the house is left broom-clean.
An estate prices by volume, because that is the only honest way to price a house whose contents nobody has counted. We publish the whole ladder rather than a "call for a quote" range, and a large home is simply quoted as more than one load, up front, from your photos.
| How much it fills | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Quarter truck — one room, or the leftovers after the family has taken what it wants | $241 |
| Three-eighths truck | $338 |
| Half truck — a partial estate, typically two or three rooms | $431 |
| Five-eighths truck | $513 |
| Three-quarter truck — a small home or a condo, cleared | $587 |
| Seven-eighths truck | $661 |
| Full truck — a whole-home clear | $732 |
| Large multi-room estate | multiple loads, all tiers quoted from photos |
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Resource Recovery on-demand bulk | Free | Weeks, per request | Limited free pickups a year with a volume cap — a whole house is far past it; curbside only; city curbside-trash customers only; nothing comes out of the house for you |
| Estate sale, then clear the remainder | Commission on what sells | Weeks of prep | Sells a fraction of the contents; the unsold 70% and the attic, garage and storage unit still have to go somewhere |
| Traditional full-service franchise | Volume-priced, on-site estimate | Days, after the estimate visit | No price until an estimator walks the house — an extra appointment before any work is booked, which is hard from out of state |
| JunkRabbit | $241–$732 per load, quoted from photos | One visit, or consecutive days | None — flat photo price for the whole house, donation receipts, broom-clean finish |
It is worth answering plainly, because families often try it first and lose two weeks. No.
The City of Austin, through Austin Resource Recovery, handles residential bulk as an on-demand request at austintexas.gov/service/ondemand. You get a limited number of free pickups per year, each with a volume cap; it is curbside only; and it serves only city-of-Austin residential curbside-trash customers. A whole-home estate is orders of magnitude past that cap — you would exhaust the year's allowance on the contents of one bedroom, and every subsequent load would still be sitting in the house. And the program's basic assumption, that somebody carries it out to the street, is precisely what an executor cannot do.
Then there is the geography of Austin's estate neighborhoods, which makes curbside staging not merely unpleasant but impossible. West Lake Hills and Rollingwood are independent municipalities with their own ordinances and strict appearance expectations, built as hillside estates on long private drives — there is functionally no curb to stage on, and a pile of a life's contents in front of a 78746 house is unthinkable to the family and to the neighbours. Tarrytown (78703) is the same story on flatter ground. In Georgetown's Sun City, the HOA governs the appearance of every street in the community, so bulk left waiting for a collection day is a violation in progress. And in the Williamson and Hays suburbs generally, the city does not even run on-demand collection — bulk goes out on a set schedule, so the wait is measured in weeks.
We are built for exactly that gap: the contents come out of the house, the attic, the garage and the storage unit onto the truck in one scheduled visit, with nothing staged where the street can see it.
On an estate this is the part families care about most, so it leads rather than trails. Donation comes first. Usable furniture, housewares, kitchen goods, linens, books and clothing route to Goodwill Central Texas, Habitat for Humanity ReStore, ARC Resale, the Salvation Army and the Austin Furniture Bank — the last of which exists to furnish homes for families coming out of homelessness, which is often exactly what an heir hopes will happen to a parent's dining set. We provide donation receipts for the estate's records; what the estate does with them is between the executor and its accountant, but the paperwork comes back to you rather than disappearing into a truck.
After donation, the streams split. Metal — bed frames, shelving, filing cabinets, mowers, the old swing set — goes to scrap recovery. Electronics route to Austin e-waste recyclers rather than general waste. Refrigerant appliances such as a refrigerator, a chest freezer or a window air conditioner have the refrigerant recovered and documented by an EPA-certified technician before the shell is scrapped, as EPA Section 608 requires. Documents and photographs found loose are set aside, not shredded blind, and handed to the family. Only the genuine remainder is disposed of, at Texas Disposal Systems in Creedmoor or the WM Austin Community Landfill for jobs in the north belt. All of that routing sits inside the flat price quoted from your photos.
Two facts shape the physical job here. First, Austin homes are slab-on-grade and there are no basements — so the accumulation of a fifty-year household is in the attic and the garage, up a pull-down ladder in an unconditioned space that reaches brutal temperatures from May to September. Crews plan attic work for the early part of the day for that reason, and bring the ladder and the lights.
Second, the estate belt sits on hill country. In West Lake Hills, Rollingwood and Barton Creek the houses are on steep lots with long, narrow private drives, multiple levels and landscaping right to the door — so the work involves floor protection, door-casing protection, careful truck positioning and walking loads further than you would in a subdivision. In Lakeway and Bee Cave, the gated communities require vendor check-in at the gate, which we arrange in advance rather than discovering at 8am. In Tarrytown and Clarksville (78703), the homes are older and grander with narrower interior stairs and period trim worth protecting, and discretion is expected — unmarked, quiet, nothing visible from the street. In Sun City, Georgetown, the homes are single-story and easy, but the HOA governs the street and the timelines are often tied to a move into assisted living. And in a downtown or Domain condo, the estate goes out the loading dock under a COI naming the association and management company, typically $1M general liability, with a freight elevator reserved several business days out. We file the COI and book the window; there is no high-rise upcharge.
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It is priced by volume from photos, on a published ladder: a quarter truck is $241, three-eighths $338, half $431, five-eighths $513, three-quarters $587, seven-eighths $661 and a full truck $732, with larger homes running multiple loads quoted up front. A storage unit is priced by its size — 5x5 $205, 5x10 $360, 5x15 $660, 10x10 $715, 10x15 $1075, 10x20 $1435, 10x25 $1790, 10x30 $2145. Specialty pieces are named separately: an upright piano $290, a grand piano $438, a pool table $603, a large safe $260, a china cabinet $160, a conference table $149. The minimum order is $75. Donation routing, disposal and the broom-clean finish are included, and your checkout total is confirmed before you book.
Yes, and for out-of-state executors that is usually the deciding factor. Photographs of each room, the attic hatch, the garage and the storage unit are enough for us to quote the whole house up front. The three national franchises operating in Austin — 1-800-GOT-JUNK, College Hunks and Junk King — all require an on-site or phone estimate before they will name a number, which for an heir who lives in another state means flying in for an appointment before any work is scheduled.
No, not remotely. Austin Resource Recovery runs residential bulk as an on-demand request at austintexas.gov/service/ondemand: a limited number of free pickups a year, a volume cap on each one, curbside only, and only for city-of-Austin residential curbside-trash customers. A whole-home clear is orders of magnitude past that cap. It also assumes a curb, and in West Lake Hills and Rollingwood — independent municipalities of hillside estates on long private drives — and in Tarrytown, there is effectively nowhere to stage. Sun City's HOA in Georgetown polices the same thing.
Donation comes first, and on an estate it is the part that matters most. Usable furniture, housewares, linens, kitchen goods and clothing route to Goodwill Central Texas, Habitat for Humanity ReStore, ARC Resale, the Salvation Army and the Austin Furniture Bank, and we provide donation receipts for the estate's records. Metal goes to scrap recovery, electronics to Austin e-waste recyclers, and refrigerant appliances have the refrigerant recovered by an EPA-certified technician before the shell is scrapped. Only the true remainder is landfilled.
Yes. In 78703 and 78746 discretion is part of the job. Crews work without staging anything in view of the street, protect floors, door casings and landscaping on steep hillside lots, position the truck on long private drives rather than at a curb, and check in at the gate where Lakeway and Bee Cave communities require it. West Lake Hills and Rollingwood are independent municipalities with their own appearance ordinances, and we work to them.
Yes, and in Austin that is where most of the volume actually is. Homes here are slab-on-grade with no basements, so decades of accumulation sit in the attic and the garage rather than downstairs. Estates also very often include a rented storage unit, which we clear and hand back empty, priced by unit size.
Most homes are cleared in a single scheduled visit, and large estates over consecutive days, which is what an executor working to a probate or closing deadline usually needs. Anything the family wants kept is set aside first — we work from your list, room by room, and confirm before anything leaves. Keepsakes, documents and safes are flagged rather than loaded.
Yes — a realtor or neighbor opens up, you approve the photo quote remotely, and we send photos of the emptied home when it's done.
Anything personal or valuable-looking is set aside and handed to you or your designated contact, never hauled.
A condo is one visit; a full house with garage and shed, one to two days. The closing date sets the schedule.
Donation first, always — furniture, housewares, and clothing go to donation partners before anything else.
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