Apartment trash removal, Salt Lake City

Apartment and rental property trash removal in Salt Lake City is the job Jeremy Saxey gets called for when something shows up by the dumpster enclosure and stays there. Salt City Junk Haulers clears dumped furniture, mattresses, bags and abandoned tenant belongings from apartment complexes, townhome HOAs, fourplexes and single rentals across the Salt Lake Valley. Property managers call when a unit is left full at move-out. HOA boards call when a couch has sat in guest parking for a week and the emails have started. Jeremy comes out with his truck and trailer and hauls it.

The job starts with a photo. The manager or the board member texts a picture of the pile to (801) 557-1063 and gets a price back. Jeremy shows up in a one-hour window, any day of the week, and loads whatever is by the enclosure or inside the unit. Most jobs get done within a few days. Same-day happens sometimes, but it's not something to count on.

Salt City Junk Haulers is owner-operated. Jeremy drives his pickup and trailer to every job. That matters for a complex because the person who quoted the job is the one who shows up, and he already knows which building the pile is behind. He's based in Midvale and works the whole Salt Lake Valley, from Salt Lake City and Millcreek down through Murray, Sandy and Draper. Licensed & insured.

What goes on the truck

• Couches dumped by the enclosure
• Mattresses and box springs
• Bags piled behind the building
• Abandoned tenant furniture
• Move-out leftovers from the unit
• Mini fridges and small appliances
• Broken chairs and shelving
• TVs and electronics

Text a photo of your pile to (801) 557-1063.

The full list of what goes on the truck, and what doesn't.

What ends up by the enclosure

The couch is the classic one. Somebody moves out on the 31st, the couch won't fit in the dumpster, so it gets leaned against the enclosure wall and left there. Mattresses and box springs are next, usually stacked beside it by the second week. After that it's the loose stuff: black trash bags that missed the dumpster, a broken office chair, a bookshelf missing a side, the mini fridge from a student rental, a TV with the screen cracked.

Inside a unit it's whatever the tenant didn't want to pay to move: a dresser, bags of clothes, boxes that never got unpacked, a kitchen table with one leg loose. Jeremy takes all of it in one load when it fits. The full list of what goes on the truck covers anything not named here.

How Jeremy handles a complex

Jeremy coordinates with whoever runs the property before he shows up. That's usually the manager or a board member, and the conversation is short: where the pile is and how he gets to it, whether that's a gate code or someone meeting him with a key.

On the day, he backs the trailer as close to the enclosure as the lot allows and loads from there. Anything already down by the enclosure or out in the lot is the quick version and keeps the number down; what's still up in the unit, he goes up and gets. Older Salt Lake City buildings with alley access get loaded from the alley so nobody's parking spot is blocked. A third-floor walk-up means carrying everything down by hand, which is the $25 stairs add-on. He hauls from the unit and the enclosure in the same trip when both need it, and he leaves the enclosure pad clear so the dumpster hauler has nothing to complain about on the next pickup.

When the pile is outside the dumpster

A couch leaning on the enclosure wall isn't in the dumpster, so it sits there until somebody hauls it. Where it sits sets the job: at the enclosure it's a short carry to the trailer, and up in the unit it's a carry down the stairs.

The building type changes the job too. An older brick fourplex in Liberty Wells means a narrow driveway and a walk-up. A townhome HOA has tight guest parking and rules about what sits where. Jeremy prices each one from the photo.

Where the pile goes

A couch that sat by the enclosure through a rainstorm is trash, and Jeremy doesn't pretend otherwise. It goes to the landfill. Mattresses go the same way, and the mattress removal page has more on those.

Stuff pulled from inside a unit is a different story. A clean dresser or a kitchen table gets dropped at a donation center before anything else. The mini fridge and any metal shelving get recycled, and so do flattened moving boxes. The cracked TV rides with the load. Jeremy sorts it on the trailer as he loads.

How Jeremy prices a complex

Every job is priced from a photo. Text a picture of the enclosure or the unit to (801) 557-1063 and Jeremy texts back one number for the whole pile, with the mattresses, a fridge or a walk-up already counted.

For a complex that collects a new pile every month, the second call works like the first. Each visit gets priced from a photo of whatever showed up, so the manager knows the number before the truck rolls. He takes cash, card and Venmo. The pricing guide walks through more examples.

What Jeremy won't take from a complex

A few things stay behind, and it's better to know before the truck shows up. Paint cans and cleaning chemicals left under a tenant's sink are hazardous waste. Salt Lake County's household hazardous waste program takes those. The hot tub on the HOA clubhouse deck isn't a Jeremy job either. Neither is the landscaping pile: rock, gravel, dirt or anything that needs a shovel stays put.

Broken concrete is a judgment call. A few chunks from a cracked walkway sometimes go on the trailer with the rest, but a whole patio that got torn out is a no. Everything else on the enclosure pad or inside the unit is fair game. For a unit that's packed wall to wall, the hoarder cleanouts page covers the bigger version of this job.

How the price works

Text a photo of what needs to go to (801) 557-1063. Jeremy looks at how much room it takes on the truck and texts back one number for the whole job. No hourly rate, and the number doesn't change once it's loaded. Jobs start at $100. The only add-ons: mattress or box spring +$40, fridge or freezer +$25, stairs +$25. He tells you before he starts. More on what junk removal costs in Salt Lake City.

Where Jeremy does this

All of the Salt Lake Valley. See every town Jeremy covers for apartment and rental property trash removal.