The Central Avenue corridor (85012, 85013, 85014) — garden apartments, mid-rise condos and offices strung along the light rail. Lease ending, roommate leaving, suite downsizing: couch $170 flat, whole units and offices from $325, quoted from a photo. We carry it down from any floor with no stair fee — and nothing goes beside your building's dumpster, where it gets billed back to your lease. No sales tax on the service.
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Upload a Photo & Get Quote →Midtown is the stretch of Central Avenue between the freeway and the Camelback corridor, and it is the most rental-heavy part of Phoenix that isn't a tower belt. Along the light rail you get mid-rise condo buildings and newer apartment mid-rises; a block off it you get the thing Midtown is really made of — garden apartments, two- and three-story courtyard complexes with exterior stairs, carports and a shared trash enclosure. Behind and above all of it sits the Central Avenue office spine, floors of professional-services suites that have been quietly right-sizing for years.
Those two things generate almost everything we haul in 85012, 85013 and 85014. On the residential side it is turnover: a lease ending, a roommate moving out and leaving their furniture behind, a landlord flipping a unit between tenants, a condo owner clearing out before a sale. On the commercial side it is the office clear-out: a firm taking half the square footage it used to, or relocating, and needing the desks, chairs, filing cabinets and a decade of dead electronics gone by a hard date.
It is a genuinely different mix from Downtown's tower belt. Down there almost every job runs through a loading dock, a COI and a booked freight elevator. In Midtown, most garden-apartment work has no dock-and-COI regime at all — but it has very real stair and parking constraints, and the mid-rise condos still do want the COI and the reserved elevator. We handle both, and either way you get a flat price from a photo and a crew that carries it down for you.
One picture of the couch, the room or the suite. Exact flat price back in seconds — no walkthrough, no "call for a quote," no number that changes at the door.
Third-floor walk-up, no elevator? Fine. Mid-rise that needs a COI and a booked service elevator? We file it and reserve the window. Tight parking off Central? We plan the load-out.
Insured crew lifts it out of the unit, down the stairs or the elevator, and out to the truck. No stair fee, nothing left by the dumpster, donation and e-waste sorted at the load.
Two ways to price it, and you pay whichever is lower. A few pieces price item by item; a whole unit or a whole suite prices by how much of the truck it fills. The carry-down, the drive and the disposal are already inside the number, quoted from your photo before anyone comes to the building.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Sofa / couch | $170 |
| Sectional (3-piece) | $249 |
| Queen mattress | $139 |
| Box spring | $124 |
| Dresser | $169 |
| Desk | $112 |
| Office chair | $82 |
| Filing cabinet — small | $81 |
| Filing cabinet — large | $101 |
| TV (medium) | $91 |
Whole apartments, condos and offices price as truck-fill:
| Truck-fill | Flat price | Roughly |
|---|---|---|
| Quarter truck (2/8) | $325 | A studio's leftovers, or one roommate's abandoned room |
| 3/8 truck | $455 | A one-bedroom cleared of furniture |
| Half truck (4/8) | $580 | The standard two-bedroom end-of-lease clear |
| 5/8 truck | $690 | Two-bedroom plus a storage closet or patio |
| Three-quarter truck (6/8) | $790 | A furnished unit stripped, or a small office suite |
| 7/8 truck | $890 | Landlord turn on a fully furnished unit |
| Full truck (8/8) | $985 | Whole condo or a full Central Ave office floor-plate clear |
$75 minimum. Carry-down, loading and disposal included — no stair fee, no elevator fee, no COI fee. Clearing several things at once? Send one photo set and it prices as a single flat number rather than stacking item prices. No Arizona sales tax on the service — Arizona has no transaction-privilege classification for labor-only hauling, so nothing is added at the end.
Outside benchmark: third-party home-services cost trackers put a typical Phoenix-metro junk-removal job around $226–$237, and national franchise crews commonly land $600–$800+ on a full truckload — normally without committing to a figure until someone has walked the unit. Ours are published above, before anyone drives over.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leave it by the dumpster | Charged to your lease | Immediate | The single most expensive option here. The enclosure is for bagged household trash, not bulk. The property's hauler removes furniture at a bulk charge and the office bills it back to the unit it came from — often with a lease-violation notice attached. |
| City of Phoenix bulk appointment | Free | Up to 3 business days out | Four collections a year, and it's built for a single-family curb. A garden-apartment tenant has no private curb, and the complex enclosure isn't a bulk drop — so for most renters here it isn't really an option at all. |
| Donate it | Free | Days | Goodwill of Central & Northern AZ and St. Vincent de Paul take clean, resellable furniture — but only usable pieces, and rarely from inside the unit. You get it down the stairs and into a vehicle yourself. |
| Rent a truck and self-haul | Truck rental + ~$55/ton gate rate | Most of a day | You're renting a vehicle, getting a sofa down an exterior stairwell alone, and driving to the 27th Avenue Transfer Station ($55/ton, 2026 city rate). The SR-85 Landfill isn't open to the public at all. |
| JunkRabbit | $170 a couch · $325–$985 by volume | Same or next day | None — photo price up front, carried down, no stair fee, donation and e-waste routed |
Midtown is Phoenix proper, so the city's program formally applies here the same as anywhere else in the city: uncontained-trash collection is appointment-based, capped at four collections per calendar year, scheduled up to three business days out, with items set out no more than seven days ahead. If you own a house in 85014 with your own driveway and curb, that is a usable program and you should use it.
If you rent a garden apartment, your claim on it is weaker than a homeowner's, and it is worth being blunt about why. That program is built around a single-family curb — a defined frontage that belongs to one household, where a pile can sit for a defined window and then be collected. A courtyard complex doesn't have that. Your unit doesn't have its own curb; the property has a shared frontage and a trash enclosure, and the enclosure is a container for bagged household waste, not a bulk drop-off.
Which leads to the mistake that costs Midtown renters real money every month: anything left beside the enclosure gets billed back to the lease. The property's private hauler removes bulk items at a bulk charge, the management office traces the unit, and the charge lands on your ledger — frequently alongside a lease-violation notice, and frequently for more than a proper haul would have cost in the first place. The mattress you carried out at 11 p.m. so nobody would see it is exactly the one that shows up on your move-out statement.
The honest answer for a Midtown renter is therefore not "wait for the city." It is a scheduled haul that never touches the enclosure: we come to your door, carry it down, and load it into our truck. Nothing sits in the courtyard, nothing gets photographed by the property manager, and nothing gets charged to your lease.
We sort at the truck. Usable furniture and household goods go to donation — Goodwill of Central & Northern AZ and St. Vincent de Paul both have a deep Phoenix presence, and St. Vincent de Paul's operations sit close to this part of the city — so a decent dresser or a sound dining set gets resold rather than buried, and you can have a receipt for it.
Electronics come out separately as e-waste, and on the office side that is a bigger share of the load than people expect: a suite clear-out is routinely half monitors, desktops, printers, phone systems and TVs, none of which belongs in mixed refuse. Metal goes to scrap — desk frames, filing cabinets, shelving uprights, chair bases, bed frames. Refrigerant appliances get EPA-certified freon recovery before disposal.
What is genuinely refuse goes to a transfer station, where the 2026 City of Phoenix gate rate is $55 per ton; the SR-85 Landfill those stations feed is not open to the general public, which is a large part of why self-hauling a unit's worth of furniture is a worse day than it looks. All of that routing is inside your flat price, not billed after the fact.
Midtown access comes in three flavors and we price all of them the same. Garden-apartment walk-ups are the most common: two or three stories, exterior stairs, no elevator, and a sofa that has to come down a switchback stairwell and around a courtyard. There is no stair fee — the carry-down is in the flat price, and it is genuinely the thing we are being hired for. Second-floor bedrooms mean mattresses and dressers come down the same stairs; that is routine.
Second is parking and loading along the light-rail corridor. Central Avenue itself is not a place to park a truck, and the older complexes off it were designed around carports and narrow drive aisles rather than a service vehicle. Tell us where the closest legal staging spot is — a guest space, a rear alley, a side street — and we plan the load-out around it instead of circling the block while the meter runs on everyone's afternoon.
Third is the mid-rise condo buildings, where the mechanics are the same as Downtown even if the scale isn't: the association or its management company wants a Certificate of Insurance naming them before a vendor touches the service elevator, and the elevator has to be reserved for a window, often padded, often with a specific entrance. We file the COI and book the elevator as part of the job — no charge for either — so give us the building name and the management contact when you send the photo. And from June through September we book early windows, because carrying a sectional down an unshaded exterior stairwell at 3 p.m. in July is not something anyone should be doing.
"Fourth-floor walk-up — they carried the couch and mattress down and out same-day. Flat price, no stair fee, no tax line. Easy."
"Central Ave tower needed a COI — filed it, booked the elevator, cleared the condo clean. Professional."
"Cleared out the home office — old desks and chairs gone in one flat-priced trip. Fast and fair."
How much does it cost in Midtown?
Sofa $170, 3-piece sectional $249, queen mattress $139, box spring $124, dresser $169, desk $112, office chair $82, filing cabinet $81 small / $101 large, medium TV $91. Whole units and offices: quarter truck $325, half $580, three-quarter $790, full $985. $75 minimum, carry-down and disposal included, no Arizona sales tax on the service.
Can I leave it by the dumpster instead?
Don't. The enclosure isn't a bulk drop — the property's hauler removes furniture at a bulk charge and management bills it back to your lease, usually with a violation notice.
Will the city pick it up?
Phoenix's program is appointment-based — four per calendar year, up to three business days out, items out no more than seven days ahead — and it's built for a single-family curb. A garden-apartment tenant doesn't really have one.
Do you charge extra for stairs?
No. Walk-up carry-down from any floor is included in the flat price, and so is the walk across the courtyard to the truck.
Do you handle COIs and freight elevators?
Yes, for the mid-rise condos along Central — we file the COI naming the association and management, and reserve the elevator window. No charge for either.
Can you clear a Central Ave office?
Yes. Desks $112, chairs $82, filing cabinets $81–$101, or the whole suite as truck-fill from $325 to $985, with electronics separated as e-waste.
Is it cheaper than a traditional full-service hauler?
Third-party cost trackers put a typical Phoenix-metro job around $226–$237, and franchise crews commonly land $600–$800+ on a full truck, usually confirmed only on site. Our numbers are published and quoted from a photo first.
Flat and photo-quoted. Single items: sofa $170, 3-piece sectional $249, queen mattress $139, box spring $124, dresser $169, desk $112, office chair $82, small filing cabinet $81, large filing cabinet $101, medium TV $91. A whole unit or office prices as truck-fill — quarter truck $325, 3/8 $455, half $580, 5/8 $690, three-quarters $790, 7/8 $890, full truck $985. $75 minimum, carry-down and disposal included, and no Arizona sales tax on the service.
Please don't — this is the most expensive mistake renters make in Midtown. An apartment complex's trash enclosure is a container for bagged household waste, not a bulk drop-off. Furniture left beside it is removed by the property's own hauler at a bulk charge, and that charge gets billed back to the lease it came from. A couch parked next to the enclosure can end up costing more than having it hauled properly, plus a lease violation notice.
Midtown is Phoenix proper, so the city's appointment-based program exists here: a maximum of four collections per calendar year, scheduled up to three business days out, with items out no more than seven days ahead. But it is built for a single-family curb. A garden-apartment tenant has an even weaker claim on it than a homeowner does, because there is no private curb that belongs to your unit and the complex's trash enclosure is not a bulk drop. For renters the practical answer is a scheduled haul, not a municipal appointment.
Yes, and there is no stair fee. Most Midtown garden apartments are two- and three-story walk-ups with exterior stairs and no elevator, so carrying a sofa, a mattress or a desk down is simply part of the job. The flat price you get from your photo already includes the carry-down and the walk to the truck.
Yes. The mid-rise condo buildings along Central require a Certificate of Insurance naming the association and its management company before a vendor can use the service elevator, and the elevator itself has to be reserved for a window. We file the COI and book the elevator as part of the job, at no extra charge. Tell us the building and the management contact when you send the photo so it is arranged before the crew arrives.
Yes — office downsizing and relocation clear-outs are a regular Midtown job. Desks are $112, office chairs $82, filing cabinets $81 small and $101 large, conference tables and copiers price individually, and a whole suite prices as truck-fill from $325 to $985. Electronics come out of the load separately as e-waste, which on an office clear is usually a substantial share of it.
Usable furniture and household goods are routed to donation — Goodwill of Central & Northern AZ and St. Vincent de Paul both have a large Phoenix presence — with a receipt on request. Electronics are separated as e-waste, metal goes to scrap recycling, and only genuine refuse goes to a transfer station, where the 2026 City of Phoenix gate rate is $55 per ton.
The difference that matters is when you learn the price. Third-party home-services cost trackers put a typical Phoenix-metro junk-removal job around $226 to $237, and national franchise crews commonly land $600 to $800 or more on a full truckload, normally confirmed only after an on-site estimate. Our numbers are published — $170 for a couch, $325 to $985 by volume — and quoted from a photo before anyone comes to your building.