For the junk removal owners in here — what’s one thing you wish someone told you in the first 90 days?
We’re learning quickly, getting jobs under our belt, and trying to avoid expensive lessons 😅
Could be pricing, customers, equipment, marketing, dump fees, insurance, bad jobs to avoid — anything you learned the hard way.
Hi NJBH,
We began our junk removal service around January of this year and I would say that sorting different kinds of junk into three separate categories (donations, recyclables, and landfill-only) has been a problem that we still have to perfect. It is one thing to remove a few pieces of furniture for donations, but an entirely different dilemma to remove a collection of paint cans, boards, and random one-off items that do not fit into a specific category. Especially if you advertise yourself as re-using as much as possible, you have to prepare a system and a set of rules within the team that helps determine where any given item aught to go without having to over think.
Man, I know exactly the pain point/bottleneck you’re talking about. We carry a very similar mindset when it comes to re-use whenever possible. We’re about 7 months in ourselves, so we’re still refining systems and figuring things out as we grow. I agree that having clear categories and decision rules makes a huge difference when you’re staring at those “random one-off” items. Appreciate you sharing this — definitely helpful hearing from others in the same trenches.🤝
