Many folks in metro Atlanta have a do-it-yourself mentality. After all, if homeowners can do it for themselves, shouldn’t they?

The short answer: no.

Junk removal, like any other professional service, takes time to master. Instead of spending weeks shifting clutter from one storage space to the next, call in a professional junk hauler to get your home back in tip top shape.

3 Reasons to Call a Professional Junk Hauler

1. Reduce wasted time, household stress, and home clutter. Hauling junk isn’t just another check on your spring to-do list. Decluttering the house can brighten, not only your home space, but your mental space as well. Instead of staring at piles of junk while you hunt for time to pack it in the truck, call Mr Junk. We’ll haul it, donate it, and even sweep up afterwards.
2. Protect the stuff you want to keep. How many times have you decided to haul off an old bookcase, only to dent the walls, scratch the floors, and knock a few priceless curios off the end table by the front door? It’s easy to damage property if you’re not prepared. Luckily for you, Mr Junk has years of experience removing unwieldy items from tight spaces. Protect your priceless possessions while we haul off your junk, no scuffed floors necessary.
3. Build the community. Mr Junk is a locally owned and operated business in Canton, GA. We take pride in offering the best junk removal service at the lowest price. By working with a small business, you get great deals, personalized service, and the knowledge that you’re helping employ local workers.

Ready to bid adieu to a house full of clutter? Call Mr Junk to remove furniture and junk from metro Atlanta homes.

If you’re putting your home on the market, you’re probably not looking forward to the steps between staking a “for sale sign” in your yard and signing the final papers. Selling your home means preparing to pack all your stuff, leave the house at a moment’s notice so potential buyers can peruse your layout, and facing some ugly truths about the junk you have lying around. One of the greatest challenges, however, is learning to look past years of bias to stage your house for sale. Stage your home like a professional with these tips from Mr Junk.

4 Tips for Staging a Home for Sale

1. Clean it out. The first step in selling real estate is bringing your home back to basics. That typically means muting colors, removing statement decor, and getting rid of home clutter. Make staging (and your eventual move) twice as easy by planning a Junk It Day before you put the house on the market. Clean out closets, storage spaces, and cluttered corners of your counters that will distract buyers from the layout of your home.
2. Bring in a friend. Not only does enlisting help bring extra manpower to junk hauling and redecorating, friends can often offer a fresh perspective. A close friend will tell you (frankly but kindly) about those scuff marks you’ve learned to look past in the dining room. They’ll also provide some much-needed support when you finally paint over your kids’ growth charts in the kitchen.
3. Don’t stuff it all in the junk closet. Potential buyers want to know how much home storage you have available. That means they’ll likely sneak peeks into your cabinets, closets, and junk rooms. If you simply can’t say goodbye to your unused stuff, move it to a recycling facility or (if you have access) to your new home.
4. Call in the professionals. You have enough to worry about at home. Let us deal with hauling your unwanted junk. We’ll load up your old furniture, boxes of clothes for donation, and broken electronics and haul them off to local recycling facilities. All you need to worry about is how to stage the clean space we leave behind.

For more information on junk hauling before a move, call Mr Junk.

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There are hundreds of reasons a tenant might leave before the end of his lease: a family could relocate to a new school district, an elderly tenant may pass away, a businesswoman might move for a new job offer, or a tenant could be evicted due to financial instability. But regardless of the reason, the landlord is often left holding the trash bag. If you have a tenant who forgot home junk when he moved, there’s only one man for the job: Mr Junk.

Home Clean Outs

We’ve seen it time and time again: a problem tenant moves out and leaves a catastrophic mess. Sometimes it’s as simple as dirty carpets and couches abandoned in the living room. One memorable junk haul required weeks of full-time manpower when a tenant left years of accumulated junk – from a broken dryer to piles of unwashed laundry – behind after his move. The last thing a property owner wants to deal with is deep cleaning the apartment before a new resident can sign the rental agreement. That’s where we come in. Mr Junk specializes in home clean outs, from interiors to crawl spaces to yard debris removal. Instead of spending hours cleaning out your old tenant’s mess, trying to get the living space up to code, give our professional junk removal service a call. We’ll load everything on our truck, sweep up the leftover dirt and debris, and recycle or donate whatever we can. All you have to worry about is finding a new renter to fill the empty space!

Don’t stress over someone else’s mess. If your tenant moves out and leaves a mess behind, Mr Junk is on the job. Give us a call to schedule a junk haul at your earliest convenience.

The calendar’s not the only thing announcing the advent of spring this year. All around Georgia birds are chirping, landscapes are blooming, and folks are migrating outdoors to patch roofs, prune shrubs, and start spring renovations. Breathe new life into your home and yard with these spring landscaping projects.

Spring Yard Makeover Tips

1. Clean up. Before digging into the fun part of landscaping, take a weekend to finish up any landscape maintenance tasks you’ve been putting off. Most pruning happens in January and February, but early spring is the ideal time for trimming branches on stoloniferous (sucker-producing) shrubs like dogwoods. It’s also an excellent time to weed, fertilize, and give the grass its first trim of the season.
2. Clean out. Finished pruning, trimming, and weeding? Don’t let organic debris mar your picture-perfect yard. Mr Junk has years of experience in yard debris removal and disaster restoration cleanup. We’ll haul downed tree branches, bags of grass clippings, and pruning waste off your property, leaving your yard looking fresh and clean.
3. Plan it. After your yard clean out, take a step back. Look for holes in the vegetation, clashing colors, and areas that don’t get much use. Then sketch out a new landscape design, complete with colorful flowers and transformative hardscape elements like bird baths and garden benches.
4. Plant it. Ready to roll? Get to work! Give your garden a fresh look this spring by planting new flowers, hanging new garden ornaments, and planning your upkeep calendar to keep the garden looking lush all season.

Mr Junk provides professional yard clean out services in metro Atlanta. Call our owner, Alex, to schedule a yard debris pickup.

There’s a reason why spring cleaning is an annual tradition. Not only is it an ideal time for cleaning musty linens, dusting dingy baseboards, and vacuuming forgotten corners, spring fever also makes it easier for homeowners to dive into their duties. Unfortunately, that readiness to get rid of junk leaves many people aimless in their spring projects. To help you get started, we’ve compiled our 6 best blogs on spring cleaning.

Mr Junk’s Best Spring Cleaning Blogs

Everything You Need to Know About Spring Cleaning: They say the beginning is the very best place to start. Get ahead of your home messes with this spring cleaning checklist.

Simple Tips on How to Downsize: Whether you’re moving to a new state, a new neighborhood, or a new, uncluttered way of life, downsizing is a challenge. Make home organization easier with these tips for getting rid of old furniture, electronics, and home junk.

5 Items to Throw Away (Right Now): Having trouble letting go of sentimental items? Here are 5 items you can (and should) toss ASAP.

5 Places Everyone Forgets to Clean: Tossed your 5 grossest items? Get a fresh start by tackling this list of the dirtiest places in your home.

Cleaning with Kids: Kids may have the best intentions, but even the most well behaved child can make cleaning a nightmare. Get ahead of home organization with these tricks for getting kids involved in cleaning (without causing a meltdown).

Tips for Making Home Organization Last: Do you find yourself procrastinating spring cleaning because you know your home will look like a disaster zone in less than a week? Keep your home organized with these helpful tips.

Spring cleaning is infinitely easier when you’re not bumping into piles of junk. Call Mr Junk to haul away old furniture, broken appliances, and boxes of unwanted stuff before you get down to scrubbing baseboards and dusting shelves. Your home will thank you for it.

Spring is almost here and that means it is time to clean. Get an early start by removing burlap from trees, pruning dead branches and freeing up some space for new greenery. If you look around your yard, you’ll likely see a number of other projects. You can pull up those old annuals, cut the perennials and thin crowded beds.

Yard Debris Removal in Alpharetta

Once you’ve cleaned up your yard, call Mr Junk. We’ll remove your yard refuse and debris so that it doesn’t sit in piles by the curb and blow back into your yard. Nor will you have to keep it all in those bulky large trash bags until the garbage men arrive. Our professionals will pick it up and dispose of it in an environmentally friendly manner. We can even recycle things like computers and computer monitors in a manner that doesn’t leak hazardous chemicals into the environment. You can rest assured that your old electronics will be re-used for other purposes.

Home Yard Clean Outs

If you’d prefer to put your yard waste into a dumpster instead of numerous trash bags and bins, let Mr Junk handle it. It’ll make your yard cleanup that much easier. We can even perform your yard clean-up for you. Don’t stress yourself out by trying to tackle a job of this magnitude by yourself. We’ll eliminate all your yard debris, scrap metal, old plywood and other items so that your property returns to its original beauty.

Once you’ve completed your spring clean, you’ll likely have plenty of items that you no longer want. Aside from removing all of your yard refuse, old patio furniture and other outdoor items, we also dispose of indoor items as well. If you need a mattress, furniture, carpet, old car, scrap metal or electronics removed, lean on us to do the job right.

Does the idea of buying Christmas presents send you into a panic spiral? Perhaps you’re overwhelmed with the options and unsure if you’ll find a meaningful gift among the shiny baubles and easily-broken toys that stock store shelves. Maybe you don’t have the funds to finance the Christmas of your child’s dreams. Or you’re simply fed up with consumerism and ready to refocus on the spirit of the season. Whatever your reasons, Mr Junk is here to help. Take your Christmas from overwhelming to meaningful with these low-cost Christmas gift ideas from Mr Junk.

3 Low-Cost Christmas Gift Ideas

1. Family heirlooms. If you’re looking for a more meaningful Christmas gift this year, look no farther than your attic. It may seem too easy to give your daughter hand-me-down furniture, but the love and history behind the gift only increase its value. Sort through antique couches and tables, heirloom jewelry, and artwork you’ve been storing for that living room redesign that never happens.
2. DIY Gifts. DIY Christmas presents sometimes get a bad rap, but if you put time and effort into the gift, it will be well received. Cut down on Christmas consumerism by getting in touch with your artsy side and giving your family and close friends hand painted Christmas ornaments, refurbished junk furniture, or any one of a million craft ideas from your Pinterest board.
3. Acts of service. Not a packrat? Not crafty enough for DIY gifts? Acts of service make a wonderful Christmas present for busy moms, working friends, and grandparents who aren’t mobile enough to tend their property as well as they’d like. Clean out your dad’s tool shed, remove those unsightly shrubs your mom always complains about, and help your grandmother sort through her piled up clutter. When you’re done, simply pile the junk in a corner and call Mr Junk to haul away the mess.

Doing a pre-holiday cleanout? Call Kennesaw’s favorite junk removal service, Mr Junk.

As a business that’s makes a habit of sifting through metro Atlanta’s greatest trashes and treasures, we feel uniquely qualified to talk about what a difference a little perspective can make. Just as sandpaper and a fresh coat of paint can turn one family’s old coffee table into another couple’s central piece of furniture, a step back from our lives can show us the beauty of the day-to-day.

No matter how you’re celebrating Thanksgiving this year, take a moment to sort through what you’re most grateful for in your life. It could be family, friends, delicious food, or simply a few days off work to get a jump on your Christmas shopping. Take a moment to relish the simple pleasures in your life. There are plenty more to come!

Happy Thanksgiving from Mr. Junk!

Relocating is difficult enough when you’re moving to a comparable sized house across town. If you’re changing states or downsizing, moving homes can be downright daunting. Get ahead of moving stress with these simple downsizing tips from Mr Junk.

Reducing Home Expenses

Living near Atlanta gets expensive, no matter what zip code you call home. Downsizing to a smaller home or apartment helps families save cash by reducing their rent or mortgage, lowering their utility bills, and providing less space to fill with useless junk. Families who are downsizing can save even more money when they plan ahead. Before relocating to a smaller home, sort through your accumulated odds and ends, appliances, and furniture. Sell, donate, or haul it off before the move to save on moving fees and storage expenses.

Getting Started on Downsizing

• Make a list of what you need. How many people will live in your new home? How many beds, chairs, and linens will you need? Do you have a family member who can’t make it without the coffee maker? Take an honest assessment of which items you can’t survive without before packing up your stuff for the move.
• Make a list of what you want. Your grandmother’s wedding pearls will definitely make the cut, but what about that necklace you never wear? Take stock of the sentimental items, practical home supplies, and stuff that’s just taking up space in your home. Separate items into categories like donate, give away, and recycle.

Have extra stuff you don’t want to store? Call Mr Junk to haul off old computers, furniture and appliances, or useless junk that’s taking up space in your garage.

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