Property Cleanouts
We empty entire properties and haul everything away in our own trucks. Foreclosures, rentals and packed houses get left broom-clean and ready for the next step.
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An estate cleanout in Los Angeles means emptying a whole house and handing it back clear. We do that work across the Westside and the South Bay. The crew goes room by room: bedrooms, closets, the kitchen, the attic and every hallway cabinet. Then the garage, the yard, the shed, the guest house and the staff quarters. Keepsakes, paperwork and anything the family flags come out first and get set aside. Usable furniture and housewares are sorted for donation. What is left loads into our own trucks and is gone the same day. You get the house back broom clean, ready for the listing or the next family.
We have been a licensed demolition and hauling contractor in Los Angeles since 1994. For twenty years we held City of Los Angeles contracts clearing foreclosed, vacant and abandoned properties. We run multiple crews and our own trucks and equipment, so the sorting and the haul off are one job. Our crews work in high-end homes and keep a low profile. A single load of furniture is junk removal. Foreclosure, eviction, garage and hoarder jobs run under property cleanouts. Estate work runs here. Estimates are free and in person. Licensed and insured, CA License 792182.
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An estate cleanout covers the whole house. Bedrooms, closets, the kitchen, the living room, the attic and the hallway cabinets. Furniture, clothing, dishes, linens, books, paperwork and boxes nobody has opened in years. Appliances come out if they are not staying with the house. Rugs, lamps, art and mirrors come off the floors and walls. At the end the rooms are empty and swept, ready to be photographed or handed to the next family.
The rest of the property comes with it. The garage is often the biggest room in the job. It holds tools, paint, tires and boxes set down decades ago. Then the yard, the patio furniture, the shed, the pool house, the guest house and the staff quarters. Green waste and yard debris load into the same trucks. If a storage unit or a second property is part of the estate, tell the estimator. It gets priced with the house.
The pace is yours. Some families want one room first, so the house stays livable while a relative visits from out of state. Some want the whole house done in a weekend, before a listing goes up. When a parent is moving into care, we often clear the bedroom and the garage first. Then we come back for the rest. Tell us the date that matters and we schedule around it.
One person is the point of contact, and that keeps the job calm. We take direction from whoever holds authority for the estate. That is usually the executor, the trustee, or an administrator appointed by the court. The family's attorney confirms who that is, and we work to it. Estate managers and listing agents often run the day to day, and that works the same way for us.
Nothing loads until you say go. The crew sets keepsakes, paperwork and anything on your list aside in a room you pick. Photos of that room come to you before a truck moves. Questions go to your one contact instead of five people. NDAs are routine on our jobs. Crews park where they are told, keep the noise down and leave the street the way they found it. If you cannot be there, the job still runs.
Most jobs run in the same order. Authority first, then the house secured, then keepsakes pulled, then the sorting and the haul off. We wrote that out in how an estate cleanout works in Los Angeles. It covers what to do before the crew arrives. Read it if you are early in the process. If you are past that part and want a date, call and an estimator comes out.
Keepsakes stay with the family. Usable furniture, housewares, clothing and working appliances are sorted for donation and dropped with a charity that takes them. Metal goes to metal recycling: appliances, bed frames, patio sets, cast iron. E-waste and mattresses go to recyclers that handle them. What is left goes to a licensed transfer station. It all leaves in our own trucks the same day, so nothing sits in the driveway waiting on a bin.
The City of Los Angeles does pick up large items free. LASAN is the City's sanitation bureau. It picks up items too large for a normal trash bin free of charge. That applies to residential customers. Schedule it at least one business day before your normal collection. It goes out on your regular trash day. The City also runs monthly free drop-off locations, including one in San Pedro. Use those if you would rather haul a few things yourself.
That route works for a few large items. A whole house is a different job. The City's free pickup does not take construction material, automotive parts, commercial waste or cardboard. Most cleanouts turn up some of that. It also moves one scheduled pickup at a time, on your collection day. When a closing date or a listing is set, the house gets cleared in a day or two instead.
Our truck yard sits in the South Bay, just north of San Pedro. From there our crews run Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Brentwood, Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades on the Westside. South of that we cover Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, San Pedro and Long Beach. That is the whole service area, and we keep it that way on purpose. A short drive means the truck comes back for a second load the same day.
Access sets the day more than the size of the house does. Hillside homes in Bel Air and Pacific Palisades have steep driveways and narrow streets. There is often nowhere to park a truck, so we stage where we are allowed and shuttle the loads. Beach city lots are tight, and the gate is what decides how the load comes out. Larger properties add long driveways, gate codes and a call ahead.
Beverly Hills limits the hours work can run. Those jobs get a start time inside the city's window, and the trucks leave on time. We did cleanup work after the Palisades fire, so hillside streets and tight staging are familiar ground. Tell the estimator where a truck can sit, how wide the gate is and which day matters. The plan comes back with the estimate.
Sometimes a house needs more than emptying. Cabinets, built-ins, closet systems, tile and flooring coming out is interior demolition. The same crew handles it on the same visit. A garage, a pool house or a whole structure coming down is house demolition. We are a licensed demolition contractor, so that stays one job and one call. A pool coming out is pool demolition, and it leaves in the same trucks.
For a listing, the order matters. Clear the house first, then take out what is being demolished. Haul it, then grade the dirt flat if a structure came down. Working that way keeps the crew from moving the same furniture twice. If what is left is one load of items and no sorting, that is a junk removal job. It prices smaller. An estimator prices the cleanout and the demolition on one visit, so you see both numbers before anything starts.
Free, no-obligation estimates across the Westside and South Bay.
(310) 546-4855From the first look at the job to the final walk-through, here is exactly how it goes.
Tell us what needs to come down, come out or get hauled off. A few photos help. We cover the Westside and South Bay, Beverly Hills to Long Beach.
The estimate happens at the property, free. We check the structure, the access and where the trucks will sit, then give you one number for the whole job.
Multiple crews, our own trucks and equipment. The teardown, the loading and the hauling stay with one company, so the schedule holds.
Debris goes out on our trucks to licensed facilities. We sweep the street, clear the drive and leave the property ready for whatever comes next.
Common questions about estate cleanouts across the Westside and South Bay. Don't see yours? Give us a call and ask.
We empty entire properties and haul everything away in our own trucks. Foreclosures, rentals and packed houses get left broom-clean and ready for the next step.
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We empty packed garages across the Westside and South Bay. What you keep stays put, and the rest leaves in our own trucks the same day.
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We load and haul away furniture, appliances, mattresses and yard debris anywhere in Los Angeles. Our hauling services run out of a demolition company, so heavy and awkward loads are normal work for us.
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We gut kitchens, bathrooms, walls and floors inside homes that are staying up. Everything you keep gets covered first, and the debris leaves on our own trucks instead of sitting in a bin out front.
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We take down houses, garages, and small structures across Los Angeles. Our own trucks haul the debris, so the lot is clear and ready for your builder.
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Hot tub, spa and swim spa removal across the Westside and South Bay. We cut the tub apart where it sits and haul every piece off in our own trucks.
View DetailsSouthwest Hauling was founded in 1994, and every job still gets priced in person. The slogan on the trucks has not changed since: It's All About Service. Same owner, same phone number, same standard.
Our own trucks and equipment do the loading and the hauling. Debris leaves on our schedule, not a bin company's. The teardown and the haul-off are one job and one price.
Twenty years of City of Los Angeles contracts clearing foreclosed and vacant properties. That work runs on deadlines and documentation, and the habit stuck. Sites get finished, not abandoned.
Much of our work sits behind gates on the Westside, and NDAs are routine. Crews park where you say, keep the site tidy and do not talk about whose property they are on.
A house that needs to come down, a garage full of junk, a lot that needs clearing? Call or send the form and we will look at the job with you and price the whole thing, teardown through haul-off. The estimate is free.
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