The entertainment-district condo towers (85251, 85257, 85250) don't let just anyone haul furniture through the lobby — they want a Certificate of Insurance and a reserved freight elevator. We file both and carry the piece out of the unit. Couch $170, 3-piece sectional $249, flat from a photo. No service tax.
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Tell us the building and management company. We issue the COI naming the association and manager as additional insured and reserve the freight elevator and dock window with the front desk.
The crew comes to your door, splits the sectional if the elevator demands it, pads what needs padding, and takes it down. You don't move it into the hallway, let alone to a curb.
Flat by piece, quoted from your photo. The carry-out, the COI filing, the elevator booking and the disposal are already in the number — there is no high-rise surcharge and no tax line.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Large TV | $98 |
| Entertainment center / media console | $104 |
| Loveseat | $128 |
| King mattress | $154 |
| Wardrobe / armoire | $165 |
| Dresser | $169 |
| Sofa / couch | $170 |
| Dining table (large, 6–8 seat) | $174 |
| Sectional — 2-piece | $190 |
| Dresser — large | $199 |
| Sleeper / pull-out sofa | $200 |
| Sectional — 3-piece | $249 |
| Sectional — 4-piece | $307 |
Clearing a whole unit rather than a piece? It's priced as truck-fill — a quarter truck $325, a half truck $580, three-quarters $790, a full truck $985 — which is almost always cheaper than adding up individual items on a furnished condo. $75 minimum on very small jobs. Disposal, COI filing and freight-elevator booking are included. Arizona doesn't tax the removal service.
Outside context: third-party cost trackers put a typical Phoenix-metro junk-removal job around $226–$237, and traditional truck-fraction haulers publish considerably higher tiers — Junk King, for instance, lists roughly $389 to $658+ across its truck fractions. Our number is set from your photo before we drive, and it includes the part those quotes usually leave out: getting it out of a twelfth-floor unit.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leave it in the trash room or by the chute | "Free" | Instant | Management fines the unit — bulk furniture in a trash room is the fastest way to get a letter from your HOA |
| The building's own bulk day | Free / small fee | Rare | Few Old Town buildings run one, and even then you still have to get a sectional from your unit to the dock yourself |
| Charity donation pickup | Free | 1–3 weeks | Goodwill, St. Vincent de Paul and Habitat ReStore trucks generally won't come up to a unit and can't produce a COI for your building |
| Traditional full-service hauler | ~$150–$600+ | 1–3 days | Priced by truck volume, usually confirmed on site — and many simply can't issue a COI, which ends the conversation at the front desk |
| JunkRabbit | $170 flat (sectional $249) | Same day | None — COI issued, elevator booked, carried from the unit, donation-routed |
Scottsdale runs its own bulk-collection program — it is not on the City of Phoenix appointment-only system, and if you live in a Scottsdale single-family home you should absolutely check your own schedule with the city before paying anyone. That's the honest answer.
But on this page, the honest answer is also mostly beside the point, and it's worth saying plainly: a curbside municipal program of any kind is irrelevant in a high-rise, because there is no curb. Every bulk program in the Valley works the same way — you put the item at the street, on a defined day, and a truck takes it. That model assumes a driveway and a property line. On the twelfth floor of an Optima building, or in a Waterfront unit with a controlled lobby and a dedicated dock, there is no place to set a four-piece sectional and no legal or physical route to get it there. Dragging furniture through a residential lobby to a Scottsdale Road sidewalk isn't a plan; it's a violation notice.
The real constraint in Old Town is the elevator and the dock, not the trash calendar. Which day the city collects bulk has no bearing on whether you can move a sofa out of your unit — what governs that is whether a vendor has a Certificate of Insurance on file with management, whether the freight elevator is reserved, and whether the crew arrives inside the dock window the building assigned. Solve those three things and the furniture leaves. Miss any one of them and the front desk turns the truck around, no matter what the price was.
That's exactly the part we own. We issue the COI, we book the elevator, and we come to the door of the unit.
Old Town furniture is, frankly, in better condition than most of what we haul — a lot of it is two-year-old staging furniture from an investor unit or a short-term rental refresh, not something worn out over a decade. So the first question we ask is whether it can be donated rather than dumped.
Resellable pieces go to donation — Goodwill of Central & Northern Arizona, St. Vincent de Paul and Habitat for Humanity ReStore all take usable furniture across the Valley, and we can provide a donation receipt on request, which for an investor or a departing owner is a genuine line item rather than a nicety. The catch that sends people here in the first place is that those charities generally won't come up to a unit or carry a COI — so donating from a tower means someone has to get it downstairs. That someone is us.
Electronics are separated for e-waste — TVs, monitors, sound systems and the tangle behind the media console go to e-waste recyclers rather than into a landfill load. Metal is recycled: bed frames, sleeper-sofa mechanisms, table bases, shelving. What's genuinely spent goes to a licensed transfer station and is disposed of properly, and because disposal in the Valley runs around $55/ton, none of that comes back to you as a surprise weight fee.
This is the part of the job that decides whether it happens at all, so here's exactly how it works in the Old Town belt.
The COI. Buildings around the Waterfront and the Old Town core require a Certificate of Insurance naming both the association and the management company as additional insured, typically at $1 million general liability per occurrence, on file before the day of the job — not handed to the front desk on arrival. We issue it on request and send it to management ahead of time. A large share of the haulers advertising in this market simply cannot produce one, which is why a cheaper quote often ends at the lobby desk.
The freight elevator. Old Town towers reserve freight elevators days in advance, in defined windows, with protective pads installed and a building engineer or concierge signing off. Passenger elevators are generally off-limits for furniture. We take the reservation on ourselves and schedule the crew to the window the building gives us, including the early-morning slots buildings prefer in summer.
The dock and the district. Old Town's other quirk is that it's an entertainment district: the streets around Scottsdale Road and the Waterfront get busy, loading zones are tight and time-limited, and a truck can't idle on the street while someone hunts for a service entrance. Buildings assign a loading-dock window for exactly that reason, and hitting it is part of the job.
Inside the unit. Sectionals get split at the connectors to clear the door and the elevator cab, corners get padded, and floors get protected — these are polished-concrete and hardwood units where a scrape is a real cost. The crew comes to the door and works from there.
"My building demanded a COI and a freight-elevator reservation. JunkRabbit filed both, hauled the sectional out clean. Flat price, no tax line, zero hassle."
"Sold the condo — they cleared it in one trip within our elevator window, COI on file with the HOA. Professional and fast."
"Just needed an old couch gone from a high-rise unit. Photo, flat price, elevator booked, done. Easiest part of my week."
How much does furniture removal cost in Old Town Scottsdale?
Sofa $170, loveseat $128, sleeper $200, sectional 2-piece $190 / 3-piece $249 / 4-piece $307, dresser $169 (large $199), wardrobe $165, entertainment center $104, large dining table $174, king mattress $154, large TV $98. Whole units are truck-fill: $325 quarter, $580 half, $790 three-quarters, $985 full. $75 minimum; COI, elevator booking and disposal included; no Arizona sales tax.
Do you provide a COI for my building?
Yes — naming the association and management as additional insured, typically at $1M general liability per occurrence, filed with management ahead of the job. No extra charge.
Can you book the freight elevator?
Yes. We take the reservation with the front desk or building engineer and schedule the crew to the dock window the building assigns.
Does Scottsdale bulk pickup take a sectional?
Scottsdale runs its own program — check your own schedule with the city. But it's curbside, and in a tower there is no curb. The constraint here is the elevator and the dock, not the trash calendar.
Will a charity just come get it?
Not from a unit, generally. Donation trucks collect at ground level and don't carry a COI. We donate resellable pieces on your behalf and can provide a receipt.
How fast for an investor flip or guest turnover?
Same-day is often available; the limiting factor is usually the building's elevator window, not our schedule. Send unit photos and we'll quote it as truck-fill.
Is it cheaper than a traditional full-service hauler?
Truck-fraction haulers publish tiers up into the $389–$658+ range and typically confirm on site; third-party trackers put a typical metro job at $226–$237. Ours is flat, known before we drive, and includes the tower access most quotes assume away.
Yes, and it is the reason most people find this page. The Optima, Scottsdale Waterfront and Inspire buildings and their neighbors require a Certificate of Insurance naming the association and the management company as additional insured, typically at $1 million general liability per occurrence, before a vendor touches the freight elevator. We issue it on request and file it with management ahead of the job at no extra charge.
Yes. Old Town towers reserve freight elevators days in advance with a defined dock window, and pads have to go up before anything moves. We coordinate the reservation with the front desk or building engineer and schedule the crew to that window rather than asking you to be the go-between.
Rarely from a tower unit. Donation pickup trucks from Goodwill, St. Vincent de Paul and Habitat ReStore generally collect from a ground-floor entry or garage, will not carry a sectional out of a unit, and do not carry a COI for your building. We do donate resellable pieces on your behalf and can provide a receipt, which gets you the donation outcome without the logistics problem.
Same-day is often available, and for investor and short-term-rental turnovers the real constraint is usually the building elevator window rather than our schedule. Send photos of the unit, get a flat truck-fill number, and we will work to the earliest dock time the building will give us.
Our number is flat and quoted from a photo before we arrive. Traditional full-service haulers price by truck fraction and typically confirm on site — Junk King, for example, publishes rates in roughly the $389 to $658 and up range across its truck fractions, and third-party trackers put a typical Phoenix-metro job around $226 to $237. Many of those operators also cannot produce a COI on demand, which in an Old Town tower means they cannot do the job at all.