Eviction & rental property cleanout in Johnstown

When a tenant moves out or is evicted and leaves their things behind, someone has to clear the place before it can be cleaned and shown. Liberty Junk Removal does that for landlords in Johnstown and across Northern Colorado. Property managers book it, and so do homeowners who rent out a house or a basement apartment. It's usually the whole unit at once, and almost none of what's inside belongs to the person paying for the job.

You decide how much goes. It might be a garage of boxes the last tenant never came back for, or every room from the front door to the back fence. The furniture and junk left in rentals and foreclosures can all go. A fridge or washer that came with the unit can stay for the next tenant, or leave too if you're replacing it. Photograph each room the way you found it, mess and all.

What goes on the truck

• Couches and dressers the tenant left
• Mattresses and bed frames
• Bags of household trash
• A fridge or washer left behind
• TVs and electronics as e-waste
• Boxes from the garage
• Pots, pans and dishes
• Broken patio furniture

These are the usual pieces on this kind of job, not the whole list.

From the full list of what goes on the truck: rental, foreclosure and business cleanouts.

How is an eviction cleanout different from a regular junk pickup?

The place usually needs to be ready for someone new by a set date. A regular pickup might be one couch you can point at. A rental cleanout tends to be the tenant's couch and bed, the kitchen stuff, a TV, a stack of boxes nobody unpacked and the bags of trash piled by the back door. When a lender takes a house back instead, that's a foreclosure cleanout, and it has its own section further down.

Where does the stuff from a rental cleanout end up?

Donation gets the first pick. A sturdy table or a couch in decent shape can go to a thrift store or Habitat for Humanity, so furniture a tenant walked away from can still get used. A metal bed frame or a rusted grill from the patio is scrap, and scrap metal gets recycled. A TV or an old computer left behind goes out as e-waste. In a rental, a big share of the pile is plain trash, like the food left in the fridge and the bathroom nobody packed, and the landfill takes that.

How is a rental property cleanout priced?

The minimum is $125. Above that, it's the room the load takes up on the truck that sets the price, and a studio with a bed and a dresser takes a good deal less than a three-bedroom house packed to the ceilings. Carrying every bag and couch out, the haul and the disposal are all inside that price, and dump fees never appear as a separate charge.

Liberty Junk Removal quotes from photos of the unit or from an in-person look. In a rental, a lot of the load hides in the closets and the garage, so open every door before you take pictures. If you haven't walked the place since the tenant left, ask for the in-person look instead.

Will paint and chemicals left in a rental go on the truck?

Paint goes. Empty cans are easiest, since full ones cost extra. Gasoline, diesel and medical or biohazard waste are turned down. In a rental, that usually means half-empty paint cans in the garage and cleaners under the kitchen sink. The cleaners cost an extra fee and need a heads-up. Put anything you want left behind in one corner, or point it out in the photos, so nobody has to guess on the day. If there's medical or biohazard waste anywhere in the unit, say so before booking.

Do I have to move the tenant's stuff to the curb first?

No. Liberty Junk Removal goes in and gets it, out of the back bedroom or down the stairs of an upstairs apartment. Nothing has to be dragged into the yard or stacked by the street, and you don't have to help load. That matters when the tenant left a sleeper sofa on the second floor and you're the only one around to deal with it.

The job runs in the same order every time, which helps a manager juggling several properties. Liberty Junk Removal answers the text or call with a quote, then puts the job on the calendar. The arrival window is one hour, with an ETA, and they keep you posted until they arrive. When the last load is out, you hear that the unit is clear.

Does Liberty Junk Removal clear rentals outside Johnstown?

Yes. From the home base in Johnstown, in Weld County, they clear rentals in Greeley, Fort Collins, Loveland, Longmont and every other town on the Northern Colorado service list. A landlord with one unit in Evans and another in Berthoud can send photos of both to the same number. The hours are 7 AM to 6 PM, seven days a week, so a unit that turns over on a Saturday or Sunday still falls inside them.

What's different about a foreclosure cleanout?

On a foreclosure, the people who lived there are gone, and nobody is around to say what should stay. That usually puts the whole house on the list, from the bedrooms down to the garage. The call comes from whoever has the keys now, like a property manager or a buyer who just picked the place up.

The big pieces are often still in place, like the couches and bed frames, with the fridge still standing in the kitchen. The slow part is the layers around them, like clothes in every closet and dishes in the cabinets. If anything has to be kept for the lender or the new owner, mark it before the day so it stays off the trailer.

How the price works

Text a photo of what needs to go to (970) 634-6969. Liberty Junk Removal looks at how much room it takes on the truck and texts back a quote for the whole job. The quote holds unless the job turns out bigger than the photo showed. No hourly rate. Jobs start at $125. Read the junk removal cost guide.

Where Liberty Junk Removal does this

All of the Northern Colorado area. Milliken requires the owner and any renter of a lot to keep the property free of junk and rubbish. See every town Liberty Junk Removal covers for eviction and rental property cleanout.