Junk Removal
VCU Student Move-Out
Junk Removal
VCU's nine-month housing contract ends May 9, 2026 at 10 a.m. — and around it, roughly 28,000 students empty their rooms and rentals across the Fan, Oregon Hill, Monroe Ward, Carver and the Museum District. Mattresses, couches, futons and mini-fridges pile up on tight, no-driveway blocks. We carry it all down and out for a flat photo-quoted price from $111, let you split it with your roommates, and donate what's still good. Book now for move-out week. No stair surcharge, no VA sales tax.
The move-out calendar, and why it matters
VCU's Monroe Park campus is right in the middle of the city, so the student neighborhoods are the city's oldest and tightest — the Fan, Oregon Hill, Monroe Ward, Carver and the Museum District. When move-out hits, tens of thousands of beds and couches try to leave those blocks at the same time. The dates that drive it:
- May 9, 2026, 10 a.m. — nine-month on-campus housing contracts end. This is the peak; the days on either side are the busiest of our Richmond year.
- July 15, 2026 — twelve-month contracts end, a second, smaller wave.
- May through August — off-campus leases around campus turn over all summer, so the move-out is really a rolling season, not a single day.
The practical upshot: book ahead. A day or two of notice around May 9 gets you a held window instead of a scramble; the summer lease-turns are easier to slot but just as fast when the day comes.
How a VCU move-out haul works
1 · Send a photo
Snap the pile — mattresses, couch, futon, mini-fridge, whatever's leaving. Exact flat price back in seconds, no walkthrough.
2 · Book your window
Grab a slot around your move-out date. Book ahead for the May 9 crush; summer turns are easier to schedule.
3 · We carry it down
A vetted, insured hauler carries it down the walk-up or up from the basement and out to the truck. Roommates split one price; the good pieces get donated.
How much does a VCU move-out haul cost?
Flat, photo-quoted, and the same whether it's one bed or a whole shared apartment. The carry-down and disposal are already in it, and there's no VA sales tax on top.
| Item / load | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Twin mattress | $82 |
| Queen mattress | $103 |
| Box spring | $92 |
| Futon | $111 |
| Sofa / couch | $126 |
| Mini-fridge | $115 |
| Whole apartment (quarter truck-load) | $241 |
| Whole apartment (half truck-load) | $431 |
| Whole apartment (full truck-load) | $732 |
$75 minimum. Two or three roommates clearing at once? Send one photo of the whole pile and we'll quote it as a single number to split. Stairs, walk-ups, English basements and no-driveway carries are all included. No VA sales tax on the service.
Split it with your roommates
Most VCU move-outs aren't one person — they're a house of three or four clearing out on the same deadline. We quote the entire pile as one flat price, so you can divide it evenly, by room, or however you sorted the utilities. There's no per-person charge, no per-trip meter, and no day-of upcharge. Landlords and property managers flipping a rental between leases get the same deal: one set of photos, one flat number, the whole unit cleared before the next tenant.
What we clear on move-out
- Mattresses & box springs — twin through king, the single most common move-out haul, recycled where we can.
- Couches, futons & sleeper sofas — carried down from the walk-up or up from the basement apartment.
- Mini-fridges & small appliances — the dorm-and-rental staple; microwaves, fans, the lot.
- Desks, dressers & cheap furniture — the particleboard that isn't worth moving to the next place.
- Whole-apartment clears — everything the lease requires gone before the walk-through, priced as one truck-fill.
Can't I just use the City's free pickup?
You can try, but move-out timing works against it. The City of Richmond's free Bulk & Brush program (804-646-6430 or 3-1-1 / 804-646-7000) collects bulky items curbside, biweekly on your recycling week — so up to about a two-week wait — and you have to get everything out to the curb yourself. On a lease that ends May 9, a two-week curb window rarely lines up with your walk-through, and a queen mattress or a sleeper sofa is almost impossible to carry solo down a narrow cottage staircase or up out of an English basement. Used mattresses are also hard to donate — most charities decline them on hygiene grounds — so the "free" routes quietly dead-end. We come on your date, carry it down for you, and take the whole roommate pile in one trip for a flat price.
What happens to your stuff
A surprising amount of what moves out of a VCU apartment in May is still perfectly usable — a couch with a couple of years left, a futon, a working mini-fridge. Those go to donation where our partners are accepting them: Habitat for Humanity ReStore, Diversity Thrift, and Goodwill of Central & Coastal Virginia. Mattresses and metal are recycled wherever an outlet can take them, and TVs, monitors and other electronics go to an e-waste recycler because Virginia bans them from the landfill. No invented diversion stats — just real routing, already inside your flat price with no VA sales tax on top.
Where we clear around campus
The student rentals sit in the oldest, tightest housing stock in Richmond — no-driveway rowhouses, pre-1900 cottages and English-basement apartments — which is exactly the access we're built for. We cover all of it:
Why students and landlords choose JunkRabbit
- Flat price from a photo — booked in seconds, no in-home estimate, no VA sales tax.
- Split with roommates — one flat number for the whole pile, no per-person fee.
- We carry it down — narrow cottage stairs, third-floor walk-ups and English basements are on us.
- Booked ahead for May 9, usable furniture donated, mattresses recycled where we can.
What VCU move-out customers say
"Four of us in a house off Grace Street, all out by the May 9 deadline. Two mattresses, a couch, two mini-fridges, a mountain of junk. One flat price, split four ways, carried down and gone in an hour. Booked it a few days ahead."
"Couldn't get a queen mattress and a futon down the narrow stairs of my Oregon Hill place by myself. They carried it all out, no surcharge for the steps, and the couch that was still good got donated. Easy."
"I manage a handful of student rentals near campus. Come mid-May I send photos of each unit and they clear them one after another — flat price, whole apartment, before the next lease. No sales tax, no drama."
VCU move-out questions, answered
When is the VCU move-out in 2026?
Nine-month contracts end May 9, 2026 at 10 a.m.; twelve-month contracts July 15; off-campus leases turn over May through August. The peak is the second week of May.
How much does a move-out haul cost?
Flat: twin mattress $82, queen $103, futon $111, sofa $126, mini-fridge $115, box spring $92; a whole apartment $241–$732 by truck-fill. $75 minimum, no VA sales tax.
Can we split it between roommates?
Yes — the whole pile is one flat price, split however you like. No per-person or per-trip fee.
Should I book ahead?
Yes — the days around May 9 fill up fast. A day or two of notice gets you a held window.
Do you donate the good stuff?
Yes — usable couches, futons and furniture go to Habitat ReStore, Diversity Thrift and Goodwill where we can; mattresses and metal are recycled.
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