Baltimore
Vacant Rowhouse Cleanout in
Baltimore
You bought the shell — we clear it out. Full debris haul-off of a stripped Baltimore rowhouse for investors, flippers, and rehabbers: the abandoned furniture, the trash the last tenant left, and the gut-out sheetrock, plaster, and old cabinetry your crew tears down. Flat truck-fill priced from $241, photo-quoted, and scheduled around your trades so the site's clean when the framers show up.
The Baltimore flip nobody else productizes
Baltimore has an estimated 13,000-plus vacant rowhouses, and the state's rehab wave is pouring money at them — Governor Moore's push to reclaim 5,000 vacants in five years and a $37 million pool for developers turning shells back into homes. Every one of those rehabs starts the same way: somebody has to empty the row. That's usually a stripped-out three-story with a tenant's abandoned couch on the second floor, black bags in the basement, torn-down plaster in the front room, and a pile of old kitchen cabinets in the alley. It is a real, steady, year-round job — and no franchise treats it as its own thing. We do.
This is a B2B lane built for the people working the Vacants-to-Value blocks — Pigtown near the stadiums, Belair-Edison and Broadway East on the east side, Reservoir Hill and lower Park Heights, Sandtown-Winchester. We clear the debris so your crew walks into a broom-clean shell, and we price it flat from photos per address so the number is in your rehab budget before you close. No hourly meter running while your GC waits on the dumpster company, no "call for a quote," and no Maryland sales tax on the service.
What comes out of a vacant rowhouse
- Left-behind furniture & trash — the last tenant's couch, mattresses, appliances, and bagged debris across every floor and the basement.
- Gut-out construction debris — torn-down sheetrock, lath and plaster, old trim and doors, ripped-up subfloor and carpet, roofing and siding tear-off.
- Dead kitchens & baths — old cabinetry, countertops, a cast-iron tub, a rusted radiator, the fixtures your crew pulls.
- Basement & yard clear — decades of stored junk carried up the narrow stairs, plus the back-yard and alley pile.
- Broom-clean handoff — the shell left ready for demo, framing, or drywall, on your schedule.
How an investor cleanout works
1 · Send photos or the address list
Shoot each floor and the debris pile, or just send the addresses for a multi-row portfolio. You get a flat per-address quote back — no walkthrough needed to start.
2 · Slot it into the rehab
Tell us where it falls — a pre-demo clear, a mid-gut debris pull, or the final haul before drywall. We book the window around your crew, not the other way around.
3 · We haul & leave it clean
An insured crew empties the shell — furniture, trash, and C&D — routes what's salvageable, tips the rest by weight, and hands back a broom-clean site.
How much does a vacant rowhouse cleanout cost in Baltimore?
Flat, photo-quoted, and priced by volume — the labor, the carry up and down three floors, and the disposal are all in the number. A partial clear of trash and left-behind furniture is a quarter or half truck; a full gut-out of a whole row usually runs a full truck or multiple loads. Loose construction debris is priced by the cubic yard. For context, a small hauler tipping at Baltimore's transfer station pays a flat $20 per load up to 7,000 lb (the city's $100/ton rate only kicks in above that) — disposal here is cheap and predictable, which is why a flat cleanout price beats the guesswork of an on-site estimate.
| Volume | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Partial clear (quarter truck) | $241 |
| Half truck | $431 |
| Three-quarter truck | $587 |
| Full truck | $732 |
| Loose construction debris (per cubic yard) | $120 |
| Whole-row gut-out | multiple loads, quoted from photos |
$75 minimum. Disposal included; photo-priced per address before the crew rolls. Suspected asbestos or lead-hazard material is not hauled as ordinary debris — it requires licensed abatement first. No Maryland sales tax on the service.
5 ways to clear a stripped rowhouse in Baltimore
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| DPW bulk pickup (311) | Free | Weeks | Residents only, 3 items/month, curbside — won't take construction debris at all |
| Roll-off dumpster rental | $400–700+ | Days to place | You load it yourself; permit for the street; swap fees; sits on a no-driveway block |
| Self-haul to the transfer station | ~$20/load + truck + crew | Multiple trips | You supply the labor and the truck and carry it down three floors |
| Traditional full-service hauler | $500–1,500+ | 2–3 days | On-site estimate, hourly creep, not tuned to a rehab timeline |
| JunkRabbit | From $241 flat | Scheduled to your crew | None — photo quote per address, we load it all, C&D included |
Full-service haul-off vs. a roll-off dumpster for a Baltimore gut →
Does Baltimore City pick up construction debris?
No — and this trips up a lot of first-time rehabbers. The Baltimore City DPW bulk program is a resident service: it takes 3 household items a month, on one scheduled Saturday, curbside only, booked through 311 four days ahead. It is built for a homeowner's old couch, not a job site. Construction and demolition debris — sheetrock, lath and plaster, wood, trim, roofing, siding — is explicitly outside that stream, and it tips differently: by weight at a transfer station or landfill, not on a resident's curb. A stripped-out rowhouse generates exactly the material the city won't collect, which is why "just put it out for bulk day" is never the answer for a flip.
We run that gap. Our crew hauls the whole gut-out — the furniture and the C&D — to the Quarantine Road Landfill or the Northwest Transfer Station on Reisterstown Road, where small-hauler loads tip cheaply and predictably, and we route reusable material (a solid cabinet run, good doors, salvageable lumber) to The Loading Dock and Habitat Chesapeake ReStore when it's worth saving. One caution we take seriously: Baltimore's stock is old, so pre-1978 lead paint and suspected asbestos are real — we do not haul suspected hazard material as ordinary debris, and we'll flag anything that needs a licensed abatement contractor before the row is cleared.
Three floors, narrow stairs, no driveway, alley in back
A vacant Baltimore row is the same brutal access as an occupied one, only emptier: a 2–3 story brick or formstone rowhouse with marble steps, no driveway, and no curb setback, everything carried up and down a narrow interior stair, and a full basement under it. The debris doesn't roll to a truck — it gets carried out through the house to the rear alley, or we double-park on the permit block to load. That's the part a dumpster company can't solve for you: they drop the box and leave the loading, the stairs, and the street permit to your crew. We do the carry, and it's in the flat price — no per-flight stair fee, no heavy-item fee on the cast-iron tub or the plaster pile. On the bigger rehabs — the tall Reservoir Hill and Park Heights rows with real square footage — we plan the sequence so a mid-gut load clears the site before the trades come back.
When investors call us
- Right after closing — the shell came with the last tenant's furniture, trash, and a basement full of junk that has to go before demo.
- Mid-gut debris pull — the crew's torn out the plaster and old kitchen and needs a clean site to keep framing.
- Final pre-drywall haul — the last of the tear-off and packaging cleared before the finish trades.
- Portfolio rehabs — several Vacants-to-Value rows going at once, sequenced address by address.
- Code or receivership cleanouts — a distressed or hoarded vacant that has to be emptied to a documented, broom-clean state.
Why Baltimore rehabbers choose JunkRabbit
- Flat price per address, from photos — a number for your rehab budget before you close, not an on-site guess.
- C&D handled as its own lane — the sheetrock and plaster the city won't take, tipped and routed correctly.
- We do the carry — three floors, narrow stairs, no driveway, out to the alley; the labor's included, no stair fee.
- Scheduled to your crew — pre-demo, mid-gut, or final haul, sequenced across a whole block of vacants.
- Insured, with salvage routed — usable cabinetry and lumber to reuse, the rest disposed, broom-clean at the end.
What Baltimore investors say
"Closed on a Pigtown shell full of the last tenant's furniture and a basement I couldn't see the floor of. They cleared all three floors and the alley pile in a morning, flat price I had before settlement. My framers walked into a clean site."
"We run several Belair-Edison rehabs at a time and the plaster and sheetrock were killing our dumpster budget. One contact, one price per address, and they schedule around the crew. The C&D piece is what makes them worth it."
"Tall Reservoir Hill row, full gut, debris on every floor. They planned a mid-gut haul so we weren't tripping over tear-off, flagged some old material for abatement instead of just tossing it, and left it broom-clean. Straight shooters."
Vacant-rowhouse cleanout questions, answered
How much does a vacant rowhouse cleanout cost in Baltimore?
Flat and photo-quoted by volume: quarter truck $241, half $431, three-quarter $587, full $732, with multiple loads for a whole three-story gut. Loose construction debris runs about $120 per cubic yard. $75 minimum, disposal included.
Do you haul construction and demolition debris, not just furniture?
Yes — the gut-out debris is the job. Sheetrock, lath and plaster, old cabinetry, trim, doors, subfloor, roofing, and siding all come out. C&D isn't part of the city bulk stream and tips separately, so we price and route it as its own lane.
Does Baltimore City pick up construction debris?
No. DPW bulk is a resident program — 3 household items a month, curbside — and it does not collect C&D at all. Rehab debris has to go to a transfer station or landfill, tipped by weight. That's the lane we run.
Can you schedule around my rehab crew?
Yes — pre-demo clear, mid-gut debris pull, or final haul before drywall. Book a window, send photos, and we hit it without holding up the trades.
What about asbestos or lead in an old rowhouse?
Baltimore's stock is old; pre-1978 lead paint and suspected asbestos are real. We don't haul suspected hazard material as ordinary debris — it needs licensed abatement first. We clear the standard gut-out and flag what has to go to an abatement contractor.
Do you handle a whole portfolio of vacants?
Yes — one contact, flat photo-quoted pricing per address, and scheduling that follows your crew from row to row. Send the addresses and photos and we sequence the haul-offs.
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