— The challenge
The sellers had lived in the home for 22 years and the 3-car garage was packed to the rafters: workbenches, four broken patio sets, holiday bins, a non-working freezer, and easily 600 lbs of metal scrap.
Their listing agent had Friday morning professional photos booked. We got the call Wednesday at 4:15 PM. The garage had to be photo-ready by 9 AM Friday.
— How we approached it
Brigham went out same-evening for a walkthrough and texted a flat quote within 40 minutes. The sellers spent Thursday morning pulling anything they wanted to keep into a corner with painter's tape around it — our standard pre-job instruction.
Crew of three arrived 7 AM Thursday. We split: one person on the freezer (Freon-certified pump-down on site), one on metal-scrap sorting for the recycler, one on general haul. We staged loads on the driveway in 1/3-truck chunks so the homeowner could veto anything on the way out.
Two truckloads went to the East Mesa transfer station, the freezer and ~600 lbs of metal went to Western Metals Recycling, the patio sets got cleaned up and donated to a Mesa charity resale shop.
— The outcome
Garage was swept, blown out, and photo-ready by 11:40 AM Thursday — nearly 24 hours ahead of the photographer.
Final invoice matched the photo quote to the dollar: $995. Home photographed Friday, listed Sunday, under contract the following Wednesday at $1.41M.
Approximately 38% of the load was kept out of the landfill via metal recycling and donation.
≈38% diverted from landfill (metal recycling + charity donation)
"I've used three other haulers in the East Valley. Nobody else returns a quote in under an hour and nobody else honors the photo price at the curb. CNC is the only crew I call before a Scottsdale listing now."