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Made moving so much less stressful! Great crew, very communicative, took great care of our stuff during our 2BD Lakeview move. Would definitely recommend!
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Amanda CorcoranJunk Removal
Estate & Property Cleanouts in Chicago
Whole homes cleared with patience and respect: sorted, donated where possible, hauled where needed, left broom-clean. Chicago crews, since 1982.
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Google Rating · 519 reviews
4.7/5
Trusted by200,000+
Experience40+
Claims Rate<1%
On Time98.5%
Estate & Property Cleanouts is one of our Junk Removal services. See the full category
A cleanout is never really about the stuff. It's about a house full of forty years, a parent's, a grandparent's, sometimes your own, that has to become an empty house on a deadline. There's a sale pending, or a lease ending, or a family that lives in three states and has one weekend to deal with all of it. The job looks like hauling. It's actually triage: what the family keeps, what deserves a second life, and what's truly at the end of the road, decided closet by closet while the clock runs.
We do the part of that job that's ours to do, and we do it the way we'd want our own family's home handled.
How a cleanout runs
It starts with a walkthrough, in person or by phone with photos, so we can see the scope and give you a real quote before anything is touched. Then the crew works the house room by room, steadily and without drama. Anything the family has flagged to keep is set aside and untouched. Furniture and household goods with life left in them get separated for donation. The rest is carried out, and carried out carefully, because a cleanout moves more volume through a home in a day than most homes see in a decade, and the house still has to show well for its sale. Floors protected, door frames padded, stairwells worked with the same craft our moving crews use, since they're the same crews.
At the end, the property is left broom-clean: emptied, swept, and ready for the listing photos, the closing, or the landlord's inspection.
Donation first, disposal second
The part families tell us matters most: not everything goes to a landfill. A house that raised a family is full of furniture that could furnish another one, and where things are usable, our donation pickup side gets them a second life instead of a dumpster. It's a small mercy in a hard week, knowing the dining set went somewhere instead of nowhere.
Some things in the house need their own specialists, and conveniently, they're also us. The upright piano nobody can take is a piano disposal job. The fridge in the basement and the washer in the mudroom are an appliance removal job. One call covers all of it, one crew is accountable for all of it, and nothing gets left behind for you to solve separately. The one boundary: we handle household contents, not construction debris or hazardous waste.
Cleanouts beyond estates
The same service fits any whole-property clear-out: a rental turning over after a long tenancy, a downsizing where most of the house isn't making the trip, a hoarding situation a family is finally ready to face, or a property manager's unit that has to be rent-ready by the first. If the assignment is "make it empty, respectfully and on time," this is the crew.
This work sits on our Junk Removal side, where the full lineup of hauling and removal services lives.
What it costs
Every cleanout is quoted from the walkthrough: the volume, the access, and the timeline set the number, and you have it, free and non-binding, before we start. No per-surprise pricing, no meter running on your grief.
When the house has to let go
Tell us about the property and the deadline, and we'll take the weight of it, all of it, off the family. Call (773) 275-4100, email info@wcmoving.com, or start with a free quote. Hard week. Easy call.
People also ask
We remove almost all kinds of junk from the home. The exceptions are construction and demolition debris, and hazardous materials.
What an estate cleanout includesLike all our junk removal, it's $75 per item, quoted up front.
How estate cleanouts are pricedYes. We work with any customer, and we work with realtors and other household service providers regularly.
How we work with executors, attorneys, and realtorsUsable items go to local donation centers, and the rest goes to the junk yard.
Where estate cleanout items goTwo weeks' notice is ideal, but we also do same-day junk removal.
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Our services range from local residential move, long-distance move and office/commercial move to donation pickup, storage and more!
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Insured
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