A unit between bookings isn't earning. We strip an Old Town condo to bare walls in one visit — flat photo-quoted price from $325 a load, COI issued to your association and management, freight elevator reserved and the dock window booked. You get the number before a crew is dispatched, not after. 85251 and 85257, the whole tower belt. No Arizona sales tax on the service.
Send photos from your cleaner or manager — exact flat price in seconds
Upload a Photo & Get Quote →Your cleaner, your property manager, the last guest's checkout pictures. Four wide shots of the unit is enough. An exact flat number comes back in seconds — no truck sent to "take a look."
Send the management contact and the insurance requirements. We issue the COI naming the association and management, reserve the freight elevator and take the dock window they give us.
An insured crew empties the unit through the service corridor, protects the elevator, sweeps behind itself and sends you an empty-unit photo. The next vendor walks into a clean box.
A turnover prices by volume, because that's what you can actually see in a photo — and because it lets you underwrite the job as a fixed line item instead of an unknown. Two shapes of unit dominate here. A furnished one-bedroom stripped to bare walls generally fills between a quarter and a half truck. A fully furnished two-bedroom with a sectional, two bedroom sets and a full kitchen usually runs a half to a full one.
| Load | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Truck-fill — 1/4 truck | $325 |
| Truck-fill — 3/8 truck | $455 |
| Truck-fill — 1/2 truck | $580 |
| Truck-fill — full truck | $985 |
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Sofa / couch | $170 |
| Sectional — 3-piece | $249 |
| Mattress — king | $154 |
| Box spring | $124 |
| Dresser | $169 |
| TV (large) | $98 |
| Bagged soft goods — 10 bags | $178 |
$75 minimum on any job. Most owners send one set of photos and take the truck-fill number — it's usually cheaper than adding up the pieces and it doesn't change if the closet turns out to be full. Carry-out through the service elevator and disposal are included, and there is no COI, high-rise or elevator surcharge. No Arizona sales tax on the service, so the quote is the total on your statement.
Third-party context: independent cost surveys put a typical Phoenix-metro junk-removal job at roughly $226–$237. 1-800-GOT-JUNK doesn't publish a price at all — it dispatches a truck team to estimate on site, with commonly cited averages near $240 a job — and Junk King prices by truck fraction, with figures widely quoted around $389–$658 and up. The number itself is competitive; the part that matters to an owner is that ours exists before the truck leaves.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| The building's trash room | "Free" | Instant | It isn't a bulk drop. The association removes it with their own vendor and bills the unit — to the owner, at their rate, with no quote |
| Municipal bulk collection | Free | On the city's schedule | Scottsdale runs its own program, and in a tower there's no curb to set anything on and no set-out point for a fourteenth-floor unit |
| Your cleaning crew | Hourly | Whenever they're next in | Cleaners clean; they don't have a truck, a COI or an elevator reservation, and a sectional isn't leaving in a housekeeping cart |
| National franchise (on-site estimate) | ~$240 average job (1-800-GOT-JUNK) · ~$389–$658+ by truck fraction (Junk King) | 1–3 days | Priced when they arrive, so you're dispatching a crew to learn the number — hard to underwrite from out of state |
| JunkRabbit | $325–$985 a load, quoted before dispatch | Same or next day, elevator permitting | None — COI issued, elevator booked, donation-routed, no tax line |
Owners ask this because it's the question that makes sense for a house, and Old Town isn't houses. Scottsdale runs its own municipal bulk collection, separate from the City of Phoenix — the rules, the caps and the schedule are the city's own, and if your property is a single-family home somewhere in Scottsdale you should check the city's site directly rather than trust any hauler's summary of it, including ours.
In a tower it barely matters, because there is no curb. A municipal bulk program works by having residents set material at a collection point on a schedule. A unit on the fourteenth floor of an Optima or Waterfront building has no such point: everything leaves through the service corridor, the freight elevator and the loading dock, on the building's terms. For contrast, the City of Phoenix — the program most Valley residents have heard of — is appointment-based with a maximum of four collections per calendar year, booked up to three business days out, with items set out no more than seven days ahead. That's Phoenix's rule and not Scottsdale's, and it's useful here only as a picture of what municipal bulk service means in practice even where it does apply: a queue, a cap, and you doing the carrying.
What actually governs your unit is the association, and the rule owners learn the expensive way is this: the building's trash room is not a bulk drop. It's sized for bagged household waste and the chute. Set a mattress, a sofa cushion stack or a flat-packed bed frame beside it and the association has it removed by their own vendor and charges it back to the unit — meaning the owner, not the tenant and not the guest, at a rate nobody quoted. That's the whole reason a professional turnover exists: material leaves through the dock, on a reserved window, with the insurance the building requires on file, and nothing appears on your next association statement.
The thing that surprises first-time investor clients is how good most of it is. Short-term-rental furniture gets replaced on a cosmetic cycle, not a structural one, so a sofa leaving a Waterfront unit is often two or three years old and perfectly serviceable. Donation comes first — Goodwill of Central & Northern Arizona and St. Vincent de Paul both take sofas, dressers, dining sets, lamps, linens and housewares across the Valley, and a receipt comes back on request, which for an owner is a documentable line rather than a nice gesture.
Electronics are separated for e-waste recycling rather than landfilled — the TVs alone justify it on a full furniture-package swap. Metal is pulled for scrap: bed frames, appliance shells, patio furniture. Refrigerant appliances get EPA-certified freon recovery before disposal. And we'll be straight about the one exception: used mattresses are refused by donation centers on hygiene grounds, so those go to responsible disposal, and any hauler telling you otherwise is guessing.
The Old Town tower belt — the Optima buildings, the Scottsdale Waterfront, Inspire and the mid-rises wrapped around the entertainment district — is run like a downtown high-rise, and vendors who treat it like a suburb get turned away at the dock. Three things are non-negotiable, and we handle all three before the job is on the calendar.
First, the certificate of insurance. Buildings here require a COI naming the association and the management company as additional insured, typically at $1 million or more in general liability per occurrence. Send us the requirements sheet and the management contact when you book and we issue it to them directly, so the front desk has it on file before the crew arrives rather than while they're waiting in the lobby.
Second, the freight elevator. It has to be reserved in advance — in most Old Town buildings days ahead, not hours — for a specific window, with pads hung and the service corridor used instead of the lobby. In practice this, not our availability, is the real constraint on how fast a unit turns, which is why we ask for your empty-by date and book backward from it.
Third, the dock. There is no curb here and there's often no legal place to park a truck on the street, particularly on event weekends or during spring training when the district is full. We take the dock window the building gives us, stage where they tell us to stage, and keep the corridor clear. None of it carries a surcharge — a tower job and a ground-floor job price the same on our sheet.
"Two-bed at the Waterfront, whole furniture package out between guests. They had the COI to our management before I'd even sent the elevator form. Bare walls in one morning."
"I'm in California and own three units here. I get a flat number off my cleaner's photos and an empty-unit picture when it's done. No one has to fly out to get a quote."
"Closed Friday, stripped Saturday, painters Monday. Sectional, two king sets, four TVs. One quote, no elevator drama, and the good furniture got donated with a receipt."
How much does a condo cleanout cost in Old Town Scottsdale?
By the load: $325 quarter truck, $455 three-eighths, $580 half, $985 full — a furnished one-bedroom is usually a quarter to a half. Pieces price flat too: sofa $170, 3-piece sectional $249, king mattress $154, box spring $124, dresser $169, large TV $98, ten bags $178. $75 minimum, no COI or high-rise surcharge, no Arizona sales tax.
Do you provide a COI?
Yes — naming the association and management as additional insured, typically at $1M+ general liability per occurrence, issued to your management office before the booking rather than at the dock.
How fast can you turn the unit?
Same or next day in most cases. The binding constraint is usually the building's freight-elevator reservation, which in most Old Town towers is days out — give us the empty-by date and we book backward from it.
Can I book from out of state?
Yes. Photos from your cleaner or manager, quote approved and paid online, access coordinated with the front desk, management or a lockbox. You get an empty-unit photo at the end.
Can't we just use the building's trash room?
No — it's for bagged household waste, not bulk. The association removes anything left there with their own vendor and bills the unit, which means the owner, at their rate.
How does this compare to 1-800-GOT-JUNK or Junk King?
Both price on site: GOT-JUNK sends a truck team to estimate in person (averages cited near $240 a job), Junk King prices by truck fraction (commonly quoted around $389–$658+). Ours is fixed from photos before dispatch, which is what makes it underwritable from out of state. Metro average is roughly $226–$237.
What happens to the furniture?
Donation first — Goodwill of Central & Northern Arizona and St. Vincent de Paul, receipts on request. E-waste separated, metal scrapped, freon recovered from refrigerant appliances. Used mattresses can't be donated and go to responsible disposal.
Is there sales tax on the service?
No. Arizona has no TPT classification for labor-only junk hauling, so there's no sales-tax line on your invoice.
Yes, and we do it before the booking rather than on the loading dock. Old Town towers require a certificate of insurance naming the association and the management company as additional insured, typically at least $1 million in general liability per occurrence. Send us the building's insurance requirements and the management contact when you book and we issue the COI to them directly. There is no high-rise or COI surcharge — it is already in the flat price.
Turnaround is the product on a flip or a short-term rental, so we schedule against your calendar, not ours. Same-day and next-day are usually available; the constraint is almost never our truck, it is the building's freight-elevator availability, which in most Old Town towers has to be reserved days in advance. Tell us the date the unit has to be empty and we book backward from it, so the painters or the staging crew walk into a bare unit on the morning you promised them.
Most of our investor work is booked that way. Your cleaner, property manager or the last guest's photos are enough for a quote; you approve the flat price and pay online, and we coordinate access with the front desk, the management office or a lockbox. You get an empty-unit photo when we are done, which is usually what the next vendor in the chain needs anyway.
Not from a tower, in practice. Scottsdale runs its own municipal bulk collection separate from the City of Phoenix program — check the city's own site for the current rules at your address — but it is largely moot in a high-rise, because there is no curb to set anything on and no residential set-out point for a unit on the fourteenth floor. The building's trash room is not a bulk drop, either: leave a mattress or a sofa beside the chute and the association has it removed by their own vendor and bills the unit. That charge lands on the owner, not the tenant or the guest.
Mainly in when you learn the price. The national franchises quote on site: 1-800-GOT-JUNK withholds a number until a truck team estimates in person, with published averages around $240 a job, and Junk King prices by truck fraction with commonly cited figures running roughly $389 to $658 and up. For an owner managing a unit remotely that means dispatching a crew to find out what it costs. We quote flat from photos before anyone is sent, which is the difference between a line item you can underwrite and a number you find out about afterward. Independent surveys put a typical Phoenix-metro junk-removal job at roughly $226 to $237 for reference.
Old Town units are full of two- and three-year-old furniture that is entirely usable, so donation comes first — Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona and St. Vincent de Paul take sofas, dressers, dining sets, lamps and housewares, and a receipt comes back on request, which is a real line for an investor. Electronics are separated for e-waste recycling, metal bed frames and appliance shells go to scrap, and refrigerant appliances get EPA-certified freon recovery before disposal. Mattresses are the exception: used mattresses are refused on hygiene grounds and go to responsible disposal.
Yes, and it matters here more than almost anywhere in the Valley. The blocks around Old Town run late and load early — dock and elevator windows are commonly morning-only, and street access near the entertainment district is genuinely difficult on event weekends and during spring training. We book the morning windows, stage where the building tells us to stage, and keep the service corridor clear so the association has no reason to remember we were there.