Condo towers with freight-elevator rules, Miami-Dade's bulky-waste program with its own fine print, and a rental market that turns over constantly — the Miami guides, in one place.
Five routes, what each one is actually good for, and where they fall over in a Miami condo. Published flat prices if you want to skip to it: sofa $126,…
The pile goes out, the truck comes, and five things are still sitting at the curb the next morning. Here is what gets left behind across Miami-Dade and what…
A small window unit is $87, a large one $109, a portable $85 and an outdoor condenser or heat pump $115. No refrigerant surcharge, no stair charge. Minimum…
A studio usually lands between a quarter truck at $241 and a half at $431. A furnished two-bedroom is more often three-quarters at $587 or a full truck at…
A standard metal or platform frame is $68. An upholstered or storage frame is $126 up to queen and $152 for a king. Bunk beds $123, Murphy beds $130.…
Most full Miami garages price between a half truck at $431 and a full truck at $732. A single-bay or a corner clear is often a quarter at $241. Named items…
A hot tub or spa is $390. A six-to-eight person spa is $501. That covers draining help, breaking it down, carrying it out past the screen enclosure and…
Two ways to price it. Per item — a sofa is $126, a refrigerator $164, a queen mattress $103 — or by how much of the truck you fill, from $241 for a quarter…
A standard refrigerator is $164, a side-by-side or French door $183, a built-in $238 and a mini fridge $115. Carry-out from any floor and disposal included,…
A television under 42 inches is $62, a 42-to-65-inch set $68, and anything over 65 inches $73. Old CRTs and plasmas price the same by size. Minimum visit…
Every item has a published price. Sofa $126, refrigerator $164, queen mattress $103, patio table $89, hot tub $390. Unsorted loads price by truck fill, $241…
There is no one Miami mattress law, because Miami-Dade is thirty-odd separate jurisdictions plus a few thousand condo associations. Here is how the rules…
There is no state-run mattress recycling scheme in Florida and therefore no standard fee to quote. What there is: a flat removal price — twin $82, full $94,…
The furniture you are not taking is its own job, and it is cheaper to plan than to improvise. A sofa is $126, a mattress and box spring set $143, a half…
A $99 headline is an advertising number, not a job price. Here is how on-site estimating actually works, why it goes sideways in a Brickell lobby, and what…
Five routes, ranked by how often they actually work in this climate. If you skip to the end: a sofa is $126, a dresser $126, a dining table for two to four…
In most cities insurance is a nice-to-have. In a Miami condo it is the difference between the crew getting past the front desk and not. Here is what a…
Find out whether you can have a container before you find out what one costs — for much of Miami the answer is no, and that settles it without any price comparison.
A junk job is four jobs — a vehicle, hands, a way out of your building, and somewhere that will take it. You can rent exactly one of them.
Estate cleanouts fail on coordination, not volume. Why an estate needs one named voice before it needs a date — and what a full two-bedroom clear actually costs.
A 12x12 room filled to waist height holds more than a full truckload. Why an instant quote can't price a packed property, and what an honest range looks like instead.
The one clearing job where the packing is already done — which makes it cheap to load and slower to decide. Priced both ways, plus what we can't take out of it.
In a tower, debris has nowhere to wait — it is in your living room or it is gone. How bagged debris prices against loose, and why removal runs on the building's calendar.
Casi todos dicen que hablan español. Esta guía dice en qué partes exactamente — el sitio, la cotización, los mensajes, la llamada y el pago — y la única parte que no prometemos.
Before you ask whose rules govern your curb, check whether you have one. Swale, sidewalk, apron and bin enclosure have different owners — and that decides who you ask.
A listing has three furniture movements, not one — the seller's leftovers out, staging in, staging out. Different authorisers, different payers, different schedules.
There is no cheaper week, no better hour and no same-day premium. What a well-chosen date actually buys is access and a second attempt.
Questions you can ask anybody, including us — starting with a disclosure about our own model: the company you book is not always the company that arrives.
Condition decides before category does — and in a tower, material arrives already mixed. No percentages, no named facilities, and an honest account of where our knowledge stops.
Corrosion starts at the fixings and works outward, so a set with tired paint may be perfectly sound and one that still looks smart may be finished. The thirty-second test that settles it.
Your smart TV knows your Wi-Fi password; your printer may hold scanned documents. The data has to leave before the device does — and that part is nobody's job but yours.
Carrying the fridge out takes minutes. The disconnection, the refrigerant, the access and the building slot all happen first — and those are what decide your timeline.
Not a price list — five real jobs costed end to end, each shown itemised against the truck rate so you can see which way the arithmetic falls. Studio $470, one-bed condo $661, house $1,070.
Stop asking what you want to keep and ask what will still be worth having in November — a closed unit through a South Florida summer answers most of it for you.
A storm pile is four materials pretending to be one problem, each with its own route and its own rate. Mixing them is what makes the bill large — six yards of branches costs $192 more once it stops being branches.
Nobody's fleet gets bigger when a storm is named — demand becomes instantaneous and capacity does not move. Being early is the only variable you control, and early means spring.
You can book a crew for tomorrow; you cannot book the elevator for tomorrow. Vacancy here is a scheduling problem, not a labour one — start the paperwork the day notice arrives.
Free of money is not free of cost — every no-cost route bills you in time, effort or certainty. The free routes ranked first, then the point where paying is genuinely cheaper.
Nobody can ask you mid-room — so every question a crew would normally ask has to be answered before it is asked, in writing. Authority, access, photographs and the closed-door set-aside.
You are choosing between six business models, not six brands — and each has a characteristic way it goes wrong. Plus the five questions that make any two quotes comparable. No competitor prices invented.
The same sofa on the same curb can be a scheduled collection or unsanctioned dumping — the difference happened days earlier and leaves no visible trace. No invented fine figures.
You are making two bookings, not one — the truck and the building. The building is the slow one. What a COI actually is, why the service elevator is the real constraint, and the order that works.
There is no single rule — Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Hialeah, the City of Miami and unincorporated Miami-Dade each run their own programme, so your address decides. Plus what your building wants before a truck can be booked.
Real 2026 flat rates — by item and by truckload.
When the county program makes sense — and when it can't help.
What a full clear-out runs — freight elevator, COI and all.
From free to flat pickup, ranked honestly.
The honest cost comparison, model vs model.