A city program that charges $30 per item, a state that taxes the service, and a UMN calendar that flips Dinkytown twice a year — the Minneapolis guides, all here.
Six options actually exist in this metro, and three of them are free. Here is what each one does well, and the specific Minneapolis thing that breaks it.
The bulky-item request covers less than most people assume. These five categories are the ones that get left on the apron after the truck has been and gone.
A small window unit is $87 and a large one is $109. Every one of them contains refrigerant, which is why they cannot go in a cart — and why there is no…
A studio near Loring Park usually lands between $241 and $431. A two-bedroom in a Uptown walk-up is more often $431 to $587. The price does not change for…
A standard metal or platform frame is $68. A solid wood or upholstered storage bed is $126, and a king version of the same thing is $152.
A sofa is $126 in February and $126 on June 1. Nothing about the price moves with the calendar. Everything about the calendar moves with the season.
The turn at the bottom of the stairs is the reason that couch has been in your rec room since 2011. It does not change the price: a sofa is $126 from down…
Not without a scheduled pickup. And in most of this city there is no curb involved at all — collection happens in the alley, which confuses people into…
The cheapest route is genuinely free — a neighborhood giveaway group in May. It is also the slowest, and from November to March it barely functions in this…
Nearly every garage in this city faces an alley, which makes the job quick for eight months of the year and an excavation for the other four.
A full truck is $732. Most Minneapolis estate cleanouts are one to three of them, and the basement is almost always the load nobody counted.
A half truck is $431 and three-quarters is $587. A single-stall alley garage that has not been swept since the last time a car fit in it is usually one of…
A full truck is $732 and most hoarding jobs in this city are three to six of them. The basement and the detached garage are where the count goes wrong.
A hot tub or spa is $390, flat. The hard part in this city is not the tub, it is the deck it was built into and the four months a year the ground is frozen…
A couch is $126, flat, carried out from wherever it currently sits. That price is the same whether it is in the front room of a Kingfield bungalow or down…
A queen is $103. The set with the box spring is $143 — less than paying for the two pieces separately. Carried out of the attic bedroom or the basement,…
A standard refrigerator is $164, carried up from the basement or out of the alley garage. The refrigerant is handled properly and it is not a separate charge.
$62, $68 or $73 depending on the screen. The cart is not an option in this state, and the old rear-projection set in the basement is not going anywhere on…
A refrigerator is $164, a washer $133, a dryer $128. Refrigerant is handled properly and it is not a surcharge, because there is no surcharge.
Four red flags account for nearly every bad junk removal experience. None of them are about price, and all of them are visible before you book.
Yes, and the alley behind your house is where most people find that out. A sofa on the apron without an approved pickup is illegal dumping, not a donation.
Every published rate on one page. The minimum is $75 a visit, disposal is included in every figure, and none of them change for stairs.
A dumpster is a container. Junk removal is labor plus a container. In a city of narrow lots, alley garages and frost-heaved driveways, the difference…
The difference is not a discount war. It is whether you know the number before the truck is in your alley or after two people have looked at your basement.
A patio table is $89 and patio chairs are $30 each. Around the lakes the season runs about five months, and the furniture that survives it is the exception.
Most abandoned-property jobs are a quarter to a half truck — $241 to $431. The cost that hurts is not the removal, it is the days the unit sits empty while…
A mattress is not household garbage anywhere in this metro, and the alley behind your house is not a loophole. Here is how the rules actually work.
Mattresses are genuinely recyclable and most of one gets reused. The question is not whether to recycle it, it is who carries it down your bungalow stairs.
Most move-out leftovers fit in a quarter to a half truck — $241 to $431. The expensive mistake is leaving it in the unit and letting the management company…
Construction debris is $120, concrete and masonry $219 per quarter truck. In a city of plaster-and-lath houses, weight is the thing that surprises people.
Most of this city changes address between May and September. The prices do not move with the calendar — $241 a quarter truck, $126 a sofa — but the calendar…
A 5x5 is usually a quarter truck at $241. A packed 10x15 is a full load at $732. The unit size tells you more than the contents do.
Nobody clears a Powderhorn basement for $99. The honest version is a $75 minimum and a published price per item, which is almost always what you actually…
A TV under 42 inches is $62, a 42 to 65 inch is $68, and anything over 65 inches is $73. In Minnesota you cannot put any of them in the garbage cart.
A rented truck looks cheaper than $126 right up until you add the mileage, the fuel, the gate rate by weight, and the four hours you spent driving to the…
Not a range, not a starting-at. Here are the jobs this city actually books, with the arithmetic shown, from the $75 minimum to a $732 full truck.
Five routes, and four of them are free. The one that matters is which route your specific piece actually qualifies for, which is usually fewer than you think.
Sorted on the truck, donated where there is a taker, recycled where there is a stream, landfilled last. None of it changes what you pay.
There are five people who will take your old refrigerator in this city. Four of them need it to already be at the top of the basement stairs.
The saving on an uninsured hauler is small. The exposure is your stairwell plaster, your deposit, your building's rules, and your name on a dumping citation.
Flat prices from $75, with the MN sales tax explained honestly.
The city's $30-per-item pickup vs a flat from-$75 haul — the real math.
Flat $126, sectionals to $228, tax included in the math.
Flat photo price from $75 vs the on-site volume estimate.
Twin mattress $82, mini-fridge $115, whole-house splits — on the UMN calendar.
The Sept 1 turnover in the U's front-yard neighborhood — book ahead.