Junk Removal Audubon Park & Windom Park
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Audubon Park & Windom Park
Upper Nordeast at its most settled — block after block of tidy 1920s bungalows with full basements and detached garages off the alley, the old Polish and Eastern-European family stock a quiet mile north of the brewery-and-art-studio bustle. The everyday job up here is simple and heavy: the basement, attic and garage cleanout after decades of a family stashing things away for the winter. We carry it all up the stairs, donate to Bridging before we dump, and hand you one flat, photo-quoted price with Minnesota sales tax already inside it.
Upper Nordeast, where the bungalows kept their basements
Audubon Park, Windom Park, Columbia Park and Waite Park (55418) are the residential heart of upper Northeast — the quieter, greener counterpart to the Arts District and the breweries down along Central and University. This is classic "Nordeast" family stock: neat 1920s bungalows and story-and-a-half houses on well-kept lots, built for the Polish, Ukrainian and Eastern-European families who worked the mills and the rail yards, and lived in by their kids and grandkids ever since. What makes it our kind of neighborhood is what coastal-city haulers can only envy — these homes have real basements, reached by narrow interior stairs, plus a walk-up attic and a detached garage off the back alley. Three generations of storage tends to end up in all three.
So the bread-and-butter here isn't a single couch on the curb; it's the whole-basement clear-out and the garage that got too full to park in. We handle both the same honest way: send a photo, get a flat number that already covers the labor, the stair carry-up, the disposal, the drive and Minnesota sales tax. No hourly meter, no "call for an estimate," and no re-price when we're standing in your doorway.
How a Nordeast basement-and-garage clear runs
- Send a photo. Snap the basement, the attic corner or the garage from the doorway and text or upload it. We read the volume and send back one flat, all-in price — usually within minutes.
- Pick your window. Same-week is standard and same-day is often open. You don't move a thing to the top of the stairs first; we come to where it sits.
- We carry it up. Down the steep bungalow stairs, out through the yard, across the alley to the garage — we do the lifting. No stair fee, no long-carry fee; it's in the flat price.
- Donate, then dispose. Usable furniture and goods go to Bridging, Goodwill and the Salvation Army; e-waste and appliances are diverted properly. What's left goes to the Hennepin transfer station, and you get a swept-clean basement back.
What we clear in Audubon Park & Windom Park
- Full basement cleanouts — decades of boxes, shelving, a dead chest freezer, paint cans and old furniture, all carried up the stairs.
- Detached alley-garage cleanouts — the garage you can't park in anymore: lumber, tires, a broken mower, workbench clutter, cleared to bare walls.
- Attic clear-outs — the walk-up or pull-down attic emptied on the same visit, so the whole house is done at once.
- Downsizing & pre-sale clears — moving a parent to a smaller place, or getting a bungalow broom-clean before it lists (Minneapolis TISH-friendly).
- Single heavy pieces — an old upright piano ($364), a washer or dryer ($128–$133), a fridge or chest freezer ($146–$183, freon documented).
- Furniture & e-waste — a sofa ($126), a dresser ($126–$148), tube TVs and electronics diverted from the trash, never just dumped.
Audubon Park pricing
Flat rates, photo-quoted before we arrive. The basement stairs, the disposal, the donation routing and Minnesota sales tax are all in it.
| Item / Volume | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Sofa / couch | $126 |
| Dresser (standard–large) | $126–$148 |
| Washer or dryer | $128–$133 |
| Upright piano | $364 |
| Garage or partial basement (truck-fill 1/4) | $241 |
| Basement + garage (truck-fill 1/2) | $431 |
| Truck-fill (3/4) | $587 |
| Whole basement, attic & garage (truck-fill full) | $732 |
$75 minimum. Disposal, stair carry-up, donation routing and MN sales tax included — the photo quote is the final number.
The city takes two items a week — we take the whole basement
The City of Minneapolis large-item program gives municipal garbage customers one free bulk pickup a year, then $30 an item, and crews take only up to two large items a week if you set them at the curb by 6 a.m. on your pickup day (schedule at 612-673-2917). That's fine for a single chair. It is no help at all for a bungalow basement with forty years of boxes, a garage you can't walk through, or anything that has to come up the stairs and out of the house instead of magically appearing at the curb. That whole-basement, same-week, carry-it-out job is exactly our lane — one flat price, everything gone in a single visit.
What Audubon Park customers say
"My dad's bungalow off Johnson had a basement packed since the seventies — canning jars, tools, an old couch, a dead freezer. They carried every bit up the stairs, donated what was good to Bridging, and gave me one flat price up front. No stair fee, no surprises."
"Finally cleared the alley garage I hadn't parked in for years. Old lumber, tires, a broken mower — gone in a couple hours for the price they quoted from a photo I texted the night before. Tax was already in it."
"We were getting my mom's Columbia Park house ready to list. Basement, attic and garage all done in one visit, broom-clean, and they were kind about the sentimental stuff. Flat price, same week."
Audubon Park questions, answered
Do you clear a full basement and carry it up the stairs?
Yes — the whole basement, up the narrow bungalow stairs, no surcharge; it's in the flat price.
Can you do the detached garage on the same visit?
Almost always — basement, attic and alley garage in one trip, one flat price.
The boxes are old and damp — is that fine?
Completely. Dusty, damp, decades-old storage is the normal Nordeast basement job. No pre-sorting needed.
Do you donate or just dump?
We donate first — Bridging, Goodwill and the Salvation Army — and divert e-waste and appliances properly.
How much for the whole basement?
Truck-fill: a quarter $241, a half $431, three-quarters $587, a full truck $732 — single pieces flat (sofa $126, upright piano $364).
Is Minnesota sales tax extra?
No — the roughly 9.025% tax is already inside your flat quote.
Ready to Clear It Out in Audubon Park & Windom Park?
Send a photo of what is going and get one flat price back — carry-out, hauling and disposal in it. Same-day is often open in Audubon Park & Windom Park.
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