Bears Moving Co. hauls junk in Kennesaw — garage, basement, and attic cleanouts, single-item pickups, old appliances and mattresses, post-renovation debris, rental turnovers, and full estate cleanouts. We load it, sweep up, and take it to donation, recycling, or the transfer station.
Pricing is not hourly: we quote from the characteristics of the job — how much of the truck the load fills, what it weighs, what is in it, how hard it is to reach, how far we drive, and what disposal costs — and you get that number on site before anything moves. Licensed GA HHG #9320 and fully insured.
Junk removal is a cleanout service, not a move. We show up with a truck and a crew, you point at what is going, and we do the carrying, loading, and sweeping. Nothing has to be dragged to the curb first and nothing has to be broken down ahead of time — that is our job.
Common Kennesaw loads include garage and basement cleanouts, old appliances, mattresses, and box springs, playsets, swing sets, sheds, and hot tubs taken apart on site, and whole-house and estate cleanouts before a sale. Typical Kennesaw jobs are garage and basement cleanouts, old appliances and mattresses, a playset or hot tub taken apart in the backyard, and full estate cleanouts before a house goes on the market.
We cannot take hazardous materials: paint and solvents, chemicals, motor oil and fuel, propane tanks, batteries, medical waste, or anything containing asbestos. Everything else — furniture, appliances, mattresses, electronics, yard waste, construction debris — is fair game.
Junk removal is not billed by the hour. Every job is quoted from the characteristics of the load: how much of the truck it fills, what it weighs, what is in it, how hard it is to get out, how far we drive, and what the disposal site charges to take it.
How much of the truck your load fills is the anchor of the quote. We price by how much of the truck your load fills — a quarter, a half, three quarters, or a full truckload — and we quote that on site once we can see the pile, before anything gets loaded.
A single-item pickup carries a small minimum because the truck and crew still have to make the trip.
After volume, weight decides the rest. Dense material like concrete, brick, dirt, roofing shingles, tile, and plaster costs more than the same volume of furniture, because the transfer station charges by the ton rather than by the cubic yard. A half truckload of demolition rubble can weigh more than a full truckload of household goods.
Item type matters where disposal is regulated. Refrigerators, freezers, and window air conditioners carry a refrigerant recovery fee. Mattresses and box springs have their own disposal charge. Electronics and e-waste, tires, and treated construction debris each have handling costs we pass through at cost rather than marking up.
Labor and difficulty are the fourth factor. A pile already stacked in the driveway is the cheapest version of any Kennesaw job. Stairs, a long carry from the back of the house, a tight basement turn, or a hot tub, shed, playset, or swing set that has to be dismantled before it will fit through a door all add crew time to the quote.
Most Kennesaw jobs give us a driveway to back into and a garage door to work out of, which keeps the carry short; the work is inside, in a basement or an attic that has not been touched in years.
Location and travel are folded in as well: the drive to the property and the drive from the property to the right disposal or recycling facility. Tipping fees vary by county, so where the load ends up is part of what it costs to take it.
Finally, disposal and recycling. We sort on the truck: donation first, then metal and appliance recycling, then the landfill for what nobody can use. The quote is settled before the first item goes on the truck.
A Kennesaw garage or basement cleanout usually runs a half to a full truckload, and volume plus a few heavy or fee-carrying items decide the number.
We move in and out of the KSU-area apartments (along Big Shanty, Frey Road, Chastain Road), the suburban subdivisions on the slopes of Kennesaw Mountain, the older homes around historic downtown Kennesaw and the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History, the Town Center apartment complexes, and the Acworth-corridor subdivisions.
Our crews know that the KSU campus parking restrictions tighten during the academic year and we stage at the apartment complex's visitor lot, that the Kennesaw Mountain area subdivisions have HOA truck-staging rules, and that downtown Kennesaw's historic Cherokee Street has 1-way segments that affect return-trip routing.
Certificate of Insurance requirements are the single most common surprise for Kennesaw customers: Legacy Park, most Barrett Parkway apartment offices, and several of the gated Cedarcrest and Stilesboro communities require a COI naming the HOA or property manager as additional insured before your crew is allowed on site.
We issue those the same day at no charge — send us the property manager's name and email when you book and it's handled before move day. Kennesaw sits inside our standard service zone, so drive time is billed as ordinary hourly time with no per-mile or fuel surcharge attached.
About 35 min northwest of Atlanta on I-75. Most Kennesaw jobs give us a driveway to back into and a garage door to work out of, which keeps the carry short; the work is inside, in a basement or an attic that has not been touched in years.
The Kennesaw areas we get junk removal calls from most: Downtown Kennesaw, Kennesaw Mountain, Legacy Park, Bells Ferry, Stilesboro, and Lakes at Cedarcrest.
Kennesaw moves divide into three logistics rhythms: KSU student housing turnover, suburban subdivision relocations, and Town Center-corridor apartment moves. KSU student moves (around the campus, the apartments along Big Shanty and Frey Road) cluster heavily in early August and late April-early May, with a smaller wave in December. We staff specifically for those windows and recommend booking 4+ weeks ahead during them.
Suburban Kennesaw (off Stilesboro, Kennesaw Due West, around Kennesaw Mountain) is 3–5 bedroom homes on quarter-to-half-acre lots with 2-car garages and finished basements — straightforward 3-mover crews and 26-foot trucks. The Acworth corridor (Cherokee Street, Mars Hill) is mixed older homes and newer subdivisions. I-75 northbound is the universal access route and backs up 4–6:30pm.
Beyond the campus, the big named subdivisions each move differently: Legacy Park off Old 41 is a 3,000-plus-home master-planned community with narrow interior streets, mandatory HOA truck-staging rules, and a management office that expects a Certificate of Insurance before the gate goes up; Bells Ferry Road runs a long ribbon of 1980s–2000s ranches and two-stories with steep driveways that a 26-foot truck can handle but a tractor-trailer cannot;
Stilesboro Road serves the larger four- and five-bedroom homes with finished basements west of the mountain; and Lakes at Cedarcrest sits on the Paulding line with longer approach roads that we build into the schedule rather than the invoice.
The Barrett Parkway / Town Center corridor is our densest apartment zone — mid-rise complexes with reserved loading zones, elevator reservations, and retail traffic that makes a 8am or 1pm start far faster than a midday one.
We sort on the truck: donation first, then metal and appliance recycling, then the landfill for what nobody can use. Sorting is part of the job, not an upsell: anything a donation center will accept goes there, metal and appliances go to a scrapper, electronics go to a certified e-waste recycler, and the landfill is the last stop rather than the first.
If you want proof of where something went — common on estate and office cleanouts — ask when you book and we will send the donation receipt or the scale ticket from the transfer station.
A single-item pickup is its own kind of job: one sofa, one mattress, one refrigerator, one treadmill. Those carry a small minimum because the truck still has to make the trip, and they are usually done in under half an hour once we are on site.
A whole-house or estate cleanout is the other end of the range. Those are priced by total volume across the day, sometimes across more than one trip, and we walk the property with you first so the number is settled before we start. A Kennesaw garage or basement cleanout usually runs a half to a full truckload, and volume plus a few heavy or fee-carrying items decide the number.
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Yes. Garage, basement, attic, estate, and rental-turnover cleanouts in Kennesaw, plus single-item pickups and construction debris. We load it, sweep the area, and take it to donation, recycling, or the transfer station.
It is quoted by the job, not by the hour. Truck volume is the main factor — a quarter, half, three-quarter, or full load — with weight, item type, difficulty of removal, travel, and disposal fees layered on. A Kennesaw garage or basement cleanout usually runs a half to a full truckload, and volume plus a few heavy or fee-carrying items decide the number.
You get the number on site before we load anything.
Because the cost is driven by what happens after the truck leaves. Landfill tipping fees are charged by the ton, refrigerant appliances and mattresses carry their own disposal fees, and recycling and donation each have their own logistics. Pricing by the load reflects those real costs; pricing by the hour would not.
No. We do the carrying from wherever the items are — basement, attic, backyard, second floor. Curbside piles are cheaper only because they are faster to load, but they are never required.
We cannot take hazardous materials: paint and solvents, chemicals, motor oil and fuel, propane tanks, batteries, medical waste, or anything containing asbestos. Everything else — furniture, appliances, mattresses, electronics, yard waste, construction debris — is fair game.
Yes. Dismantling is common on Kennesaw jobs and is quoted as part of the labor and difficulty portion of the price, so you see it in the number up front rather than as a surprise line afterward.
We sort on the truck: donation first, then metal and appliance recycling, then the landfill for what nobody can use. Ask for a donation receipt or a scale ticket when you book and we will send it after the job.
Yes. Bears Moving Co. is licensed under GA HHG Mover #9320 and carries full cargo and liability insurance on every job, including cleanouts. Building Certificates of Insurance are issued within 24 hours of booking.