High-rise condos in Rosslyn, Courthouse, Clarendon and Ballston plus the family neighborhoods of North Arlington (22201–22214). COI filed for your building, freight elevator booked, everything carried out of the unit — at a flat photo-quoted price from $75. And because Virginia doesn't tax the service, the quote is the total.
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Upload a Photo & Get Quote →One Arlington is a vertical one. The condo corridors that run from Rosslyn through Courthouse and Clarendon out to Ballston are towers with concierges, loading docks, service elevators, and a management company with a binder full of rules. Nothing leaves those buildings on a whim: you need a certificate of insurance on file 48 to 72 hours ahead naming the management company or association as additional insured, and a reserved freight-elevator or dock window to actually move a sectional out. We file the COI and book the window as part of the job.
The other Arlington is North Arlington's single-family neighborhoods — houses with basements, garages, attics and driveways, where the constraint isn't a building manager, it's thirty years of accumulation and a set of stairs. Those price as truck-fill from a photo and get cleared in one visit, swept.
Both of them sit in Virginia, which means the same happy fact applies either way: Virginia does not tax junk removal as a service, so there's no sales-tax line waiting at the end. The flat number we send you back from your photo is the number you pay.
Photograph the pieces or the room. An exact flat price comes back in seconds — no walkthrough, no "call for an estimate," no on-site renegotiation.
Same-day is usually open across Arlington. Tower buildings get a COI filed for management and a freight-elevator or dock window reserved before we roll.
An insured, vetted crew lifts it from the unit or the basement, moves it via the service elevator or the stairs, and hauls it. Usable pieces are donated.
Flat and photo-quoted. Single pieces price per item; a whole condo, a garage or a storage locker prices as truck-fill. The carry-out, the drive and the disposal are already inside the number, and there's no Virginia sales tax on top of it.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Sofa / couch | $170 |
| Sectional — 3-piece | $249 |
| Queen mattress | $139 |
| Dresser | $169 |
| TV (medium) | $91 |
| Treadmill | $155 |
| Washer | $179 |
| Refrigerator | $221 |
Whole-unit and garage jobs — truck-fill ladder
| Truck fill | Flat price |
|---|---|
| 2/8 of the truck | $325 |
| 3/8 | $455 |
| 4/8 (half truck) | $580 |
| 5/8 | $690 |
| 6/8 | $790 |
| 7/8 | $890 |
| Full truck (8/8) | $985 |
$75 order minimum. Loading, stair and elevator carry, and disposal are included — there's no high-rise fee, no stair fee and no fuel surcharge. Clearing several things at once? Send one photo of the pile and we price the whole set together, which is nearly always cheaper than the pieces added up. No Virginia sales tax on the service.
For a third-party benchmark: HomeGuide's 2026 cost research puts national franchise junk removal at roughly $400–$600 for a half-truck and $700–$1,000 for a full truck, quoted after an on-site estimate. Disposal itself isn't free in Northern Virginia either — Fairfax County's FY2026 commercial disposal rate is about $90 per ton (Fairfax County DPWES), which is what any hauler in this market is paying at the scale before labor.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arlington County bulk collection | Free / program fee | Scheduled date | Curbside only, county-set item caps and exclusions — and you move everything out to the curb yourself |
| Donate (Habitat ReStore, Goodwill, Salvation Army) | Free | Days | Must be clean and resellable; most locations want you to bring it, and pickups book out |
| Self-haul to a transfer station | Truck rental + tip fee | Half a day | Fairfax County's FY2026 commercial disposal rate is ≈$90/ton (Fairfax County DPWES) — plus you do every lift, twice |
| Franchise hauler (1-800-GOT-JUNK, College HUNKS) | ≈$400–$600 half-truck, $700–$1,000 full (HomeGuide 2026) | 1–3 days | Priced by truck volume and usually only confirmed by an on-site estimate |
| JunkRabbit | From $75 · sofa $170 · truck-fill $325–$985 | Same day | None — flat photo price, COI filed, we carry it out, no VA sales tax |
Yes — Arlington County operates its own bulk-item collection program for the households it services, with item caps and exclusions the county sets. It's a legitimate option and worth checking if your timing is flexible and your item list is short.
Here's the honest contrast. County collection is scheduled and it is curbside. You book a date, you get everything down to the curb under your own power, and it sits on the street until the truck arrives. Nothing about that program reaches inside a home, down a basement stairwell, or into a fourteenth-floor unit. If you're mid-PCS with a report date, or the thing you need gone is a sectional that has to be split apart to clear a doorway, a scheduled curbside pickup isn't the answer.
And if you live in one of the Rosslyn, Courthouse, Clarendon or Ballston towers, the calculus changes entirely: it isn't the county that decides how your old furniture leaves the property, it's the building. Management sets the move-out rules, and those rules generally mean a COI naming them as additional insured, filed 48–72 hours ahead, and a reserved freight-elevator or dock window. You need those whether the item ends up at the curb or in our truck — which is why, for a high-rise resident, hiring a hauler who already handles both is usually the shorter path.
Useful context if you're comparing sides of the Potomac: across the river in the District, condos, co-ops and buildings of four or more units are barred from DC's bulk-trash program entirely and are required to use a private, licensed hauler (DC DPW). Arlington doesn't work identically — but the practical upshot for anyone in a large multi-family building on either bank is the same. The city or county truck isn't coming to your unit.
Nothing usable goes straight to a landfill if we can avoid it. Furniture and household goods in resellable shape are routed to donation — Habitat for Humanity ReStore, Goodwill and the Salvation Army all have Northern Virginia locations that take usable furniture, and we'll get you a receipt on request. Metal goes to scrap. Electronics go to the regional e-waste programs rather than the trash stream. Any refrigerant appliance — the fridge, the chest freezer in the garage, the window AC unit — gets EPA-certified refrigerant recovery before it's disposed of, which is a legal requirement and is inside your flat price. What's genuinely waste tips at the regional transfer stations, where, at roughly $90 a ton commercially in Fairfax County, we have a very direct incentive to divert everything we can.
The high-rise corridor is its own discipline and we treat it that way. Before a crew is dispatched to a tower we get the management company's name and requirements, issue a certificate of insurance listing them as additional insured, and file it in the window the building asks for — typically 48 to 72 hours ahead. Then we reserve the freight elevator or the loading dock for the actual slot, because in most of these buildings an unbooked elevator simply means the concierge turns the crew around at the desk.
Inside the unit, the practical work is the same one every Clarendon and Ballston condo has: a sectional that came in before the door frames were finished, a Peloton in a bedroom on the ninth floor, a mattress that has to be walked around a corner the elevator lobby doesn't forgive. We split sectionals, break down equipment in place, blanket what needs protecting, and use the service route rather than the lobby. None of that carries a surcharge — the photo price is the price.
In North Arlington, the job flips: driveway access, a garage door, and a basement or attic full of things nobody has looked at since the last move. We carry it up and out, sort donation from disposal on the spot, and sweep behind us.
Arlington sits next to the Pentagon, and its population reflects it — federal employees, active-duty military, and cleared defense contractors. That gives this county a demand pattern the rest of the DMV doesn't have: PCS churn. A Permanent Change of Station comes with a report date you cannot move, a household-goods weight allowance, and a quarters or lease turnover that has to pass a walkthrough. Summer is the peak, and the whole corridor turns over at once.
The math is what surprises people. Over the weight allowance, shipping a tired sectional, a treadmill and a garage's worth of stored boxes across the country costs more out of pocket than replacing them on the other end — so the rational move is to dump the heavy, low-value items before the packers arrive, not after. A treadmill at $155, a sofa at $170 and a washer at $179 is a very different bill from paying overage on their weight to a second coast.
Security-clearance relocations add their own wrinkle: short notice, a firm date, and a strong preference for an insured, vetted crew and a clean paper trail rather than whoever answers a marketplace ad. We work backward from your report date, quote the whole unit flat from photos so it fits a relocation budget you can actually submit, and clear it in one visit so the walkthrough happens on schedule.
"Ballston high-rise — filed the COI, booked the freight elevator, cleared the unit clean. Flat price, no tax line. Professional."
"Rosslyn condo cleared before the move — donation-routed, broom-clean, no sales tax in Virginia. Easy."
"Old couch and a fridge out of a Clarendon walk-up same-day. Photo, flat quote, easy. Highly recommend."
How much does it cost in Arlington?
Flat, photo-quoted: sofa $170, 3-piece sectional $249, queen mattress $139, dresser $169, medium TV $91, treadmill $155, washer $179, refrigerator $221. Whole units price as truck-fill, $325 at 2/8 up to $985 for a full truck. $75 order minimum, carry-out and disposal included, and no Virginia sales tax.
Is there sales tax on the service in Virginia?
No. Virginia doesn't tax junk removal as a service, so there's no sales-tax line on your Arlington bill — the flat quote is the total. (A quote from a DC address isn't apples-to-apples: the District applies sales tax at checkout.)
Does Arlington County pick up bulk items for free?
The county runs its own bulk-item collection program with item caps and exclusions it sets. It's scheduled and curbside — you book a date and move everything out to the street yourself. It doesn't come into a home or a tower, which is where most of these jobs actually are.
Can you provide a COI for my building?
Yes — filed 48 to 72 hours ahead, naming your management company or association as additional insured, with the freight elevator or dock window reserved. Standard for Rosslyn, Courthouse, Clarendon and Ballston. No high-rise surcharge.
Do you handle PCS and military move-outs?
Yes — it's our busiest Arlington lane, and it peaks in summer. We work backward from your report date, quote the unit flat from photos, and clear it in one visit so the walkthrough happens on time. Dumping what's over your weight allowance almost always beats shipping it.
Cheaper than a franchise hauler?
More predictable, and usually cheaper for a defined job. HomeGuide's 2026 research puts franchise pricing around $400–$600 for a half-truck and $700–$1,000 for a full one, confirmed on site. Ours is $325–$985, quoted from a photo before we dispatch.
How fast can you be here?
Same-day is usually open across 22201–22214 if photos come in the morning. The one limit is a building that requires a COI on 48–72 hours notice — that lead time is the building's, not ours.
It is flat and quoted from a photo. Single items: sofa $170, 3-piece sectional $249, queen mattress $139, dresser $169, medium TV $91, treadmill $155, refrigerator $221, washer $179. Whole units and storage lockers price as truck-fill across seven tiers: 2/8 of the truck $325, 3/8 $455, 4/8 $580, 5/8 $690, 6/8 $790, 7/8 $890, full truck $985. The order minimum is $75. Carry-out, loading and disposal are in the number, and Virginia does not tax the junk-removal service, so the quote is the total.
No. Virginia does not tax junk removal as a service, so there is no sales-tax line added to your Arlington bill. The flat number you are quoted from the photo is the number you pay. This is one of the few places where a price quoted across the river in the District is not directly comparable — DC applies sales tax at checkout, Arlington does not.
Yes. Arlington's high-rise buildings typically want a certificate of insurance on file 48 to 72 hours ahead, naming the management company or association as additional insured, plus a reserved freight-elevator or loading-dock window. Send us the building's requirements or the management contact when you book and we file the COI and reserve the window before the crew is dispatched. There is no high-rise surcharge — the flat photo price already covers it.
Constantly — it is Arlington's signature job. PCS timelines are unforgiving: you get a report date, a weight allowance, and a quarters or lease turnover deadline, and anything over the allowance either costs you out of pocket to ship or has to go. We work to the report date rather than a vague window, quote the whole unit flat from photos so it fits a relocation budget, and can clear it in one visit so the walkthrough happens on schedule.
It is more predictable, and usually cheaper for a defined job. HomeGuide's 2026 cost research puts national franchise pricing at roughly $400 to $600 for a half-truck and roughly $700 to $1,000 for a full truck, generally confirmed only after a crew drives out to look at it. Our ladder runs $325 to $985 for the same volume range and is quoted from a photo before anyone is dispatched, with the carry-out included rather than treated as an add-on.
Yes. Refrigerator $221, washer $179, dryer $172, chest freezer $196, window AC from $117. Anything holding refrigerant — the fridge, the freezer, the window or portable AC unit — goes for EPA-certified refrigerant recovery before disposal. That is a legal requirement, not an upsell, and it is inside the flat price.
Same-day is usually available across 22201 through 22214 if you send photos in the morning. The exception is a building that requires a COI on 48 to 72 hours notice — in that case the building's own lead time, not ours, sets the earliest date, so send us the management contact as early as you can.