Junk Removal in Kennesaw, GA
Garage and estate cleanouts, furniture, appliances, storm debris, sheds, decks and hot tubs — loaded, hauled off and disposed of. You get the price before anything goes on the trailer.
Residential junk removal is most of what we do — houses, garages, basements, attics and everything the yard has collected. The same crew and the same itemized quote cover rentals between tenants, offices and small commercial clear-outs; what changes there is access, timing and paperwork, and that is covered further down.
How we price it
By volume — how much of the trailer you fill — not by the hour. Hourly pricing punishes you for a crew having a slow day. Volume pricing means you know the number before we start.
A full load of our 5×8 trailer with walls — about 6 cubic yards — runs around $500.
Smaller loads cost less, and we price them against that. What we will not do is give you a firm number over the phone without seeing the pile, because that number always moves in one direction afterwards.
Send a photo or we come and look. Either way you get the price in writing, and nothing goes on the trailer until you have said yes to it.
What is in the price, and what is not
Included: the labor to get it out of wherever it is, the load, the haul, and the disposal fee at the transfer station. Dump fees are in the number we quote you, not added afterwards.
Surcharged: a few items cost us extra at the landfill and we pass that through at cost — mattresses, tires, paint, and appliances containing refrigerant. We tell you which items those are when we quote, not when we invoice.
Not taken: hazardous waste, chemicals, solvents, asbestos and medical waste. If some of that is mixed into the pile we will separate it out and tell you who does handle it. We would rather send you elsewhere than pretend.
The three jobs we do most
Garage and basement cleanouts. The most common call we get, and usually something that has been put off for a couple of years. We sort as we load, so anything worth donating gets separated rather than landfilled.
Rental turnovers. A tenant moved out and left half the unit behind. This is time-sensitive — every day the unit sits full is a day it is not earning — so we treat it that way. We also do the interior repairs and repaint, which means the cleanout and the make-ready run on one schedule instead of two contractors.
Demolition and tear-downs. Sheds, decks, fencing, old playsets, interior demo. We break it down, load it and leave the ground clean. Doing the hauling ourselves matters here — a demo crew that has to call somebody else to remove the debris costs you two mobilizations.
Sheds, playsets and outbuildings
A shed is not really a junk removal job until somebody has taken it apart. That is the part people underestimate. Most of what gets called shed removal in Kennesaw is two jobs sold as one — the tear-down first, and only then is there anything to load.
We take the whole thing: the shed itself, whatever has been living inside it for the last decade, the ramp, the shelving and the fixings. Same for old playsets and swing sets, rotting decks, collapsed fence runs and hot tubs. What is left is bare ground, raked — not a pile pushed to the treeline.
Three things change the number, and they are worth knowing before anyone quotes you. What it is built from — a wood-frame shed comes apart faster than a steel one, and far faster than a masonry one. What it is standing on — gravel or skids are straightforward, but a poured concrete slab more than doubles the work, because breaking up and hauling concrete is weight rather than volume. And how much of it we can reach — a shed at the back of a fenced yard with a five-foot side gate gets carried out by hand, piece by piece.
Across the country, shed removal runs about $200 to $2,000, and $1,200 to $3,500 where a concrete foundation has to come out with it. Those are published market figures rather than our prices, and they are here so you can judge any quote you are given, ours included. We quote yours after we have looked at it, in writing, with the labor and the disposal itemized separately.
One thing we will tell you rather than let you find out: a demolition permit can be required for an accessory structure, depending on its size and how it was built. We check with Cobb County before we start, and if yours needs one we will say so at the quote rather than halfway through the job.
Junk removal, or a yard cleanup?
People often call us for junk removal when what they actually need is a property cleanup — brush, saplings and overgrowth spread across a yard rather than a pile in a garage. The difference matters because they are priced differently: a cleanup is cut-and-clear labor plus hauling, junk removal is load volume.
If you are not sure which one you have, send a photo. We will tell you, and we will quote whichever one is actually cheaper for you.
Offices, rentals and small commercial clear-outs
A load is a load. But a commercial or rental clear-out does not get scheduled the way a garage does, and three things usually decide whether it goes smoothly.
Access and timing are most of the job. A tenant space, an office suite, a unit or a storage locker comes with hours you have to work inside, a route to get things out, sometimes an elevator, and sometimes a building or association that wants notice first. Tell us the constraint when you call and the day gets built around it, rather than us turning up and finding out.
Somebody is going to want the invoice broken up. A manager putting the cost to an owner, or an agent putting it against a listing, needs labor, load volume and disposal on separate lines. Ours are written that way before the work starts, so nothing has to be reconstructed from a total afterward.
Some buildings will not let a contractor on site without a certificate of insurance. 2MT is fully insured and the certificate goes out on request — worth asking for it when you book rather than on the morning, because that is the thing that most often stops a crew at the door.
And if the clear-out is a rental between tenants, the haul is usually the first job of several rather than the whole of it. The paint, the repairs and the yard tend to follow inside the same two weeks, and it is cheaper and faster to quote them together than to find four contractors one at a time. How we work a rental turnover →
After an eviction, what the tenant left behind becomes your problem the same day
This is the part Georgia landlords are most often wrong about, and the reason is that most of what is written online about abandoned tenant property describes other states. Georgia is unusually blunt, and almost all of it sits in one subsection.
O.C.G.A. § 44-7-55(c). A writ of possession “shall authorize the removal of the tenant or his or her personal property or both from the premises,” and permits that property to be placed “on some portion of the landlord’s property or on other property as may be designated by the landlord and as may be approved by the executing officer.” Then the two sentences that decide everything: the landlord “shall not be a bailee of such personal property and shall owe no duty to the tenant regarding such personal property,” and “after execution of the writ, such property shall be regarded as abandoned.”
So the Code sets no storage period, no inventory requirement and no notice-before-disposal step for property removed under a writ. Plenty of states do; Georgia does not. What it leaves you with instead is a house, a garage and often a driveway full of somebody else’s belongings, on a day you did not choose, with the clock on the next tenant already running.
And there is usually less warning than people expect. If the tenant does not answer the dispossessory within seven days of being served, the court issues the writ instanter — O.C.G.A. § 44-7-53(a) — rather than after a further waiting period. At the other end, since the Safe at Home Act took effect on 1 July 2024 a nonpayment case cannot be filed at all until the tenant has had three business days’ written notice to pay or vacate, posted in a sealed envelope conspicuously on the door (O.C.G.A. § 44-7-50(c) and (d)). When the marshal actually schedules the set-out is a county scheduling question rather than a statutory one, so ask the court and not a website.
What all of that adds up to on the ground is a clear-out that has to be scoped before the date and done in one visit. We will walk it and put a written, itemized number on it ahead of the writ executing, so the day it happens is a phone call rather than a project — and where the unit is turning straight back around, the haul is the first job of several. How we work a rental turnover →
Read from the Georgia Code in September 2026. This is what the statute says, not legal advice — an eviction is a court process and your attorney or the magistrate court is the right place for advice about your own case.
Questions we get asked
Do I need to move it to the curb?
No. We come and get it wherever it is — back of the garage, basement, far corner of the yard. If you have already stacked it at the curb, say so when you call, because that is a smaller job and it should cost you less.
How fast can you come?
Usually within a few days, often sooner. If it is a turnover with a tenant moving in, tell us and we will work around the date.
Can you price it over the phone?
A range, yes. A firm number needs eyes on the pile, and a photo is usually enough. Anyone who gives you a firm price sight-unseen is either padding it or planning to revise it.
Will you take just one item?
Yes. A single mattress or one appliance is a small job and we will quote it as one.
Do you take the concrete slab as well?
Usually yes, but say so up front — the slab is often more work than the shed, and it changes the quote more than anything else does.
Do I need to empty the shed first?
No. Most of what we get called for is a shed nobody has opened in years. Tell us if anything in there is coming with you.
Do you need a permit to tear down a shed?
It depends on the size and how it was built. We check with Cobb County before the job rather than after.
What about the old swing set the kids grew out of?
Same job. It comes apart, it goes on the trailer, and the ground gets raked.
Will there be a bare patch of dirt afterwards?
Yes, wherever the shed was standing. We can level it out; reseeding is a separate conversation.
Where does it actually go?
Cobb County’s transfer station takes most of it and we pay by the ton like everyone else. What is worth donating goes to a donation center instead. We are not going to claim a recycling percentage we cannot prove, but we will tell you honestly what happened to your load if you ask.
What areas do you cover?
Kennesaw, Acworth, Marietta, Woodstock, Canton, Powder Springs and Dallas. See our service area.
The rest of what we do
Cleared by hand, downspouts flushed, debris hauled off. Priced by house size.
Overgrown lots, brush and storm debris cut down and hauled off the property.
Block walls built on a proper base with drainage behind them, so they stay put.
Free quote, in writing
2MT Services is an LLC based in Kennesaw, fully insured with general liability. Ask and we will send you the certificate before we arrive.