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Eviction Cleanouts in Temecula — Cleared the Day After the Lockout
Once the sheriff hands you the keys, every day that unit sits full is rent you're not collecting. We haul what the former tenant left behind, from a couch and some bags to a whole house, starting at $195 for a quarter load. You tell us what's legally clear to go. We do the lifting, the hauling and the sweep.
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Transparent pricing
What an eviction cleanout costs in Temecula
We charge by how much of the trailer the job fills. Not by the hour, not per item, and not more because the word "eviction" is on the work order. Labor, loading, hauling, disposal and the final sweep are all inside the number. You get a written estimate before anything moves, and there's no deposit.
Quarter Load
About 3 cubic yards
$195
Minimum pickup
Half Load
About 6 cubic yards
$350
Per load
Three-Quarter Load
About 9 cubic yards
$495
Per load
Typical apartment eviction
Full Load
12 cubic yards
$595
Per load
Every bracket includes the two-person crew, loading, hauling, licensed disposal at the county landfill or transfer station, sorting for donation and recycling, and a broom-clean sweep of every room we emptied. A full load includes one hour of loading time. Long carries from a back bedroom or a detached garage don't cost extra.
What can change the price
- Stairs
- $150 on loads up to one-half, $300 on loads over one-half, for carrying items up or down stairs. No charge if the building has an elevator. Most second-floor apartments in Temecula and Murrieta don't, so tell us the floor when you call and it goes in the written estimate.
- Appliances
- $30 each for refrigerators, freezers and AC units. That covers the refrigerant recovery the law requires before they can be scrapped.
- Mattresses
- $15 each, any size, box springs included. Evictions usually leave two or three of them behind.
- Extra loading time
- Past the hour included with a full load, $75 per hour per crew member. On a normal eviction we never get there. On a hoarded unit we might, and you'll know before we start.
- What a full load means
- 12 cubic yards in our 12ft x 8ft x 4ft dump trailer, loaded by two people. Bigger jobs run as multiple loads at the same rates.
Household hazardous waste (paint, propane, pool chemicals, car batteries, fluorescent tubes) can't ride in the load at any price. See the section on what we can't haul below.
| The unit after the lockout | Typical bracket | Typical total |
|---|---|---|
| Studio or one-bedroom, mostly bagged trash and a mattress | Quarter to half load | $195 to $365 |
| One-bedroom with the furniture left in it, second floor, no elevator | Half load plus stairs | $500 |
| Two-bedroom apartment, furnished, kitchen full, two mattresses | Three-quarter load | $525 |
| Three-bedroom house, furniture and a loaded garage | Two full loads | $1,190 and up |
| Long-term tenancy, hoarding conditions, whole house | Three or more full loads | Quoted after photos |
Those are ranges from jobs we've actually run, not a menu. Two units the same size can differ by a whole load depending on how long the tenant lived there and whether the garage was part of the lease. The fastest way to a real number is photos.
Same rates as every other job we do. The full volume guide is on our junk removal pricing page.
Start here
What an eviction cleanout actually is
An eviction cleanout is what happens to a rental after the court process ends and the tenant is gone. The sheriff has done the lockout, you've got possession, and the unit is full of whatever the tenant couldn't take, didn't want, or left on purpose. Somebody has to get it out before the painter, the cleaner and the next tenant can do anything.
That somebody used to be the landlord, a nephew and a pickup truck. Three trips to the Lamb Canyon landfill later, the garage is still half full and the weekend is gone. We do it in one pass with a crew and a 12-yard trailer, usually the day after you call.
We are the hauling side of an eviction, and only the hauling side. We don't serve notices, we don't decide what's abandoned, and we don't store belongings for you. Your attorney or your property manager handles the legal part. Once that's done, we handle the physical part, and we're good at it.
Who calls us for this
Landlords with one or two doors
You went through the unlawful detainer yourself or with an eviction service, the lockout finally happened, and now you want the unit rentable again by the first of the month. We can usually be there within a day or two of the lockout.
Property managers
You've got a make-ready list and the junk is holding up every line on it. Send photos, approve the number, put us on the lockbox. Nobody from your office has to meet us. One invoice per property.
Attorneys and eviction services
Your client wants the unit cleared the day the notice period runs out. Tell us the date, we'll hold the slot. We work from your instructions on what's clear to dispose of and we don't freelance on that.
The sequence
From the sheriff lockout to our trailer
Most of the calls we get on evictions are really questions about timing. Here is how the end of a Riverside County eviction usually runs, and where we fit. This is general information from a junk hauler, not legal advice. Your attorney has the final word on every date below.
Judgment and writ
The court gives you a judgment for possession, then a writ. You take the writ to the Riverside County Sheriff's civil unit. Nothing about the tenant's stuff can happen yet.
Notice to vacate
The sheriff posts a five-day notice at the unit. Some tenants move everything out in those five days. A lot of them move themselves out and leave the rest.
The lockout
The sheriff meets you or your locksmith at the door and returns possession. This is the first moment you can legally be inside. Photograph everything before anyone touches anything.
The property window
California gives an evicted tenant a window to come back for belongings, generally 15 days after you take possession, and the abandoned-property notice rules set 15 or 18 days depending on how notice went out. Your attorney tells you when that clock ends.
You call us
Call at any point after the lockout. If the window is still running, we'll book the day after it closes. If it's already closed, we can often be there the next morning. Text photos and you'll have a written number the same day.
We clear it
Two-person crew, one trailer per load, everything you've cleared for disposal goes out, rooms get swept, you get a photo of the empty unit and an invoice. Your painter can start the same afternoon.
People do this. They've got a sheriff date and they want the truck rolling the same morning so the unit turns faster. We won't enter a unit before you have possession, and we won't remove anything while the tenant's claim window is open unless your attorney has told you in writing that it's clear. A self-help eviction is a bigger bill than a full trailer. The California Attorney General has been blunt about it: changing locks or removing a tenant's property to force them out is unlawful, and law enforcement is told to intervene.
The plain-English version of the court side is on the California Courts eviction self-help pages, and the Riverside County Superior Court has its own evictions self-help section. The post-writ property rules come from Code of Civil Procedure §715.010 and the abandoned-property notice from Civil Code §1984. We read them so we understand what you're dealing with. We still don't give legal advice.
Scope
What we haul out after an eviction
If it's inside the four walls, the garage, the patio or the yard, and you've cleared it to go, it goes. Evictions produce a specific mix and we've loaded enough of them to know it by heart.
Furniture
Couches and sectionals that wouldn't fit in the moving truck, bed frames, dressers with the drawers still full, dining sets, entertainment centers, broken office chairs. Stairs and tight hallways are our problem, not yours.
Mattresses and box springs
Almost every eviction leaves at least one. $15 each on top of the load, and they go to a mattress recycler when they're dry, not the landfill.
Appliances
Tenant-owned fridges, chest freezers, window AC units, microwaves, washers and dryers left in the garage. Fridges get the $30 refrigerant handling fee. Everything else rides in the load.
Bagged and loose trash
Kitchen trash, bathroom trash, the pile behind the couch, food in the fridge that's been off for two weeks. We bag it, we haul it, we don't make faces about it.
Clothing, toys, boxes
Closets full of clothes, kids' rooms full of toys, moving boxes that never got unpacked. Clean, usable items go to the donation partners on our where your junk actually goes page.
Garage and patio
Tires, a dead lawn mower, scrap wood, a rusted grill, pet crates, the broken trampoline. The garage is where the extra load hides on single-family evictions and it's rarely in the lockout photos.
Electronics
TVs, monitors, printers, game consoles. California doesn't allow these in the landfill, so they go to a certified e-waste recycler. Details on our electronic waste removal page.
Yard debris
Dead landscaping, piled trimmings, a backyard that became the trash pile when the cans got too full. Same load, same rates.
What we can't put on the trailer
Household hazardous waste can't go to the landfill in our load, and the county doesn't make exceptions for evictions. That means paint, solvents, pool chemicals, propane tanks, car batteries, motor oil, pesticides, fluorescent tubes and needles. We'll set it aside in one spot, photograph it, and tell you where it goes. For a Temecula rental, the nearest free drop-off is usually the Riverside County permanent household hazardous waste facility in Lake Elsinore at 512 N. Langstaff Street. The county's schedule and accepted-items list are on the Riverside County Waste Resources HHW page. Limit is 15 gallons or 125 pounds per trip. If there's more than that, call the county before you load the car.
Biohazard cleanup is a different trade. If there's human waste, animal waste through the flooring, needles in quantity, or anything that looks like a drug operation, we'll tell you on the walkthrough and point you to a licensed remediation company. Once they've done their part, we come back for the rest of the load.
The part nobody wants to think about
Belongings, paperwork and what we won't decide for you
The law treats what a tenant leaves behind as their property until a process says otherwise. We take that seriously because getting it wrong costs our customers money, and because it's the right way to do it. So here is how we run it on site.
You or your attorney tell us, before we start, one of two things: everything in the unit is cleared for disposal, or these specific items are not. If it's the second one, we stage those items in a room or the garage, photograph them, and don't touch them again. We haul the rest. If we find something mid-job that looks like it matters and wasn't on the list, a safe, a filing box, a wedding album, we stop and call you. That call takes two minutes and it's saved more than one landlord a headache.
We don't appraise anything. Whether the pile is worth under or over the $700 line that decides between disposal and a public sale under Civil Code §1988 is your call and your attorney's. We'll tell you honestly what we see. A room of broken particleboard furniture is not $700 of property. A garage with tools and a running motorcycle might be.
Paperwork, IDs, medications and mail
Tax returns, medical records, a passport, a checkbook, prescription bottles with a name on them. These show up on nearly every eviction and they should not go in a landfill bag. Our crew pulls them into a single box as they find them and hands the box to you or leaves it where you tell us. What you do with it after that is between you and your attorney. Prescription drugs can go to any Riverside County HHW site or a pharmacy take-back bin. We don't take them.
- Photograph every room before we arrive and again when we leave. We send our own after-photos, but yours are the ones that matter in a deposit dispute.
- Write down the disposal instruction. A text that says "everything goes" is fine. A phone call you don't remember six months later is not.
- If you're storing set-aside items, pick the spot before we get there. The garage is usually easiest and it's where we'd stage anyway.
- Check the mailbox and the porch. We can't haul mail and neither should you.
Our guide for landlords, Things to Know Before Starting an Eviction Cleanout, goes deeper on the notice-to-reclaim rules, storage duties and what to document. Read it before your first one.
What it looks like
What we see on Temecula Valley evictions
No two are the same, but after five years they fall into patterns. Knowing which one you've got tells you the bracket before we even quote it.
The quiet one
Tenant moved most of it during the five-day notice. Left a mattress, a couch that wouldn't fit, a kitchen's worth of bagged trash and the patio furniture. Half load, in and out in ninety minutes. This is most apartment evictions in Harveston, Temeku Hills and along Murrieta Hot Springs Road.
The walked-away one
Nobody moved anything. Beds made, dishes in the sink, clothes in the closets, food in the fridge. It reads like they left for work and didn't come back. Three-quarter to full load per bedroom. The sorting takes longer than the hauling because this is where the paperwork and the personal items are.
The long-tenancy one
Six, eight, twelve years in the same house. A garage nobody parked in since the first year. Three generations of furniture. The two-story in Menifee we cleared after a lockout was three full loads and most of a day, and the garage alone was a load. Photos first, always, and we'll walk it with you if you want.
The mistake we see most on the landlord side is underestimating the garage and the yard. The lockout photos are of the living room and the bedrooms. Then the crew opens the side gate in Redhawk and there's a shed full of tires and a pile of drywall from a project the tenant never finished. That's why we ask for one photo of every space, garage and yard included, before we quote. It keeps the number honest in both directions.
The mistake on the tenant side, if you can call it that, is leaving the fridge full. If the power's been off for a couple of weeks, tell us. We bring the right bags and we handle it. It doesn't change the price, it just changes what we bring.
For units that have crossed from messy into hoarding, the approach changes and so does the crew size. That's its own page: hoarder junk removal in Temecula.
Step by step
How an eviction cleanout works with us
Text photos
One of every room, the garage and the yard. Tell us the floor level and whether there's a gate code. You'll have a written estimate back the same day, usually within the hour during business hours.
Approve the number
Reply yes. No deposit, no contract. If you'd rather we see it in person, we'll do a walkthrough, but photos are enough on nine out of ten evictions.
Pick the date
The day after the claim window closes, or the day after the lockout if your attorney says it's clear. We hold same-day slots most mornings, and we work Saturdays.
Give us access
Lockbox code, a key under the mat, or meet us there. Most managers don't come. We text when we arrive and when we're loading.
We sort, load and sweep
Set-aside items get staged and photographed. Everything else gets loaded, donation and recycling separated, and every room gets swept. HHW gets grouped in one spot with a note.
Photos and invoice
After-photos of every room, then one invoice, per property if you manage several. Pay by card, check or ACH. Done.
The number you approve is the number you pay
If the scope changes mid-job because the attic turns out to be full, we stop and call. We don't add it to the invoice and explain it later.
Working with your office
For property managers, attorneys and eviction services
Evictions are dated work, and the date isn't ours. We built the way we schedule around that. If you run more than a handful of doors in the valley, here's what a standing arrangement looks like.
- One point of contact. Weston's cell. Not a call center, not a dispatcher in another state.
- Priority on lockout dates. Tell us the sheriff date and the expected clear date and we'll hold the morning after.
- Per-property invoicing and a COI on file. Your accounting shouldn't have to sort our invoices by address. We do it.
- Written disposal instructions honored to the letter. If your attorney says the sealed boxes in the second bedroom stay, they stay. We don't open them, we don't move them, we photograph them.
- Multi-unit days. Three lockouts in one complex in a week is normal for the bigger communities off Winchester Road. We'll clear all three in one visit as separate loads at the same rates.
Everything else a management company needs from us on the rental side, from ordinary move-outs to renovation debris and illegal dumping at the community, is on our property manager turnover cleanout page. Post-foreclosure and REO trash-outs, where the chain of authority runs through a lender instead of a lease, are on the foreclosure cleanout page.
Where we work
Eviction cleanouts across Southwest Riverside County
We're based on Niblick Road in Temecula and run the whole valley from there. Lockouts through the Riverside County Sheriff's civil unit happen everywhere on this list, and we've cleared units after them in every one of these cities.
Temecula
Harveston, Redhawk, Wolf Creek, Vail Ranch, Paloma del Sol, Temeku Hills, Meadowview, Old Town, and the apartment communities along Jefferson and Winchester.
Murrieta
Murrieta Hot Springs, Copper Canyon, Mapleton, Greer Ranch, the complexes off Clinton Keith and along Madison.
Menifee
Sun City, Heritage Lake, Audie Murphy Ranch, Menifee Lakes, Quail Valley and Romoland.
Also Wildomar, Lake Elsinore, Canyon Lake, Winchester, French Valley, Hemet, Fallbrook, Rainbow and De Luz. Same rates everywhere on that list. If you're further out, call and ask. Sometimes the answer is yes.
From the owner
Why landlords in this valley call Wild West for evictions
Weston Molitor
Founder, Wild West Junk RemovalWeston grew up in Murrieta and started Wild West in Temecula in 2021 with one dump trailer and a phone number. Five years and a lot of lockouts later, he still runs the crews and still answers the phone.
We've cleared units after lockouts for individual owners with one rental and for management companies with a few hundred doors. The process is the same either way, and the price is the same either way.
What you get that you won't get from a guy with a truck
- We won't enter early. If the paperwork isn't done, we wait. That protects you more than it protects us.
- Licensed, insured, and we dispose at permitted facilities. Your tenant's junk doesn't end up dumped on a dirt road in Rainbow with your address on the mail inside it.
- A written number before we lift anything. And it doesn't move.
- After-photos every time. Every room, empty and swept. Keep them with your deposit file.
- Donation and recycling first. Usable furniture and clothes go to Habitat for Humanity, the Salvation Army and Goodwill. Metal and e-waste go to recyclers. Landfill is the last stop, not the first.
Page written by Weston Molitor and last reviewed 11 September 2026. Prices on this page are current as of that date.
What customers say
Reviews from Temecula Valley customers
★★★★★
Weston and his team are on it. They respond as fast as any company I have seen, and get the job done 100% of the way with no shortcuts. Good people over at Wild West, recommend highly without any reservation.
★★★★★
We just moved and had junk all over our new house, so I called Wild West Junk Removal and they sent a team out. They showed up on time and had it finished quickly (and it was a big job)! Professional and friendly, I would recommend this company to anyone who needs clutter removed from their house.
★★★★★
Nick and the crew were on time and very professional. They removed reclining couches, entertainment center, coffee table, end tables from our upstairs loft. They were very careful and cleaned the area afterwards. Great price! I would definitely recommend Wild West junk removal.
★★★★★
This company is amazing! I was in need of junk removal. I called, they came, it was done! They are so professional in every way. Courteous and friendly. I will use this company forever!
Questions we get on the phone
Eviction cleanout questions
Yes. The minimum is our quarter-load rate, $195, which covers about 3 cubic yards, roughly a mattress, a couch and a dozen bags. From there it's $350 for a half load, $495 for three-quarters and $595 for a full 12-yard trailer. Stairs, appliances and mattresses carry the same small surcharges as every other job we do. There's no eviction premium and no hourly rate.
As soon as you tell us it's legally clear. If your attorney says the former tenant's claim window has to run first, we book the morning after it closes. If it's already closed or the unit is confirmed abandoned, we can usually be there within one business day, and same-day is realistic if you call before noon. We work Monday through Saturday, 7am to 7pm.
No. We only enter after you have legal possession, which in Riverside County means the sheriff has completed the lockout and returned the property to you. Going in early, even with the owner's key, can be treated as a self-help eviction and that liability lands on you. We'd rather lose the job than put a customer in that spot.
No, and you shouldn't hire anyone who says they will. You or your attorney tell us in writing what's cleared for disposal and what has to be set aside. We stage the set-aside items, photograph them, and haul the rest. If we find something mid-job that wasn't discussed and looks like it matters, we stop and call you before it goes anywhere.
They go into one box as the crew finds them and the box goes to you, not the trailer. Tax papers, medical records, passports, checkbooks and prescription bottles with a name on them should never end up in a landfill bag. Prescription drugs can be dropped at any Riverside County household hazardous waste site or a pharmacy take-back bin. We don't haul them and we don't haul mail.
We can tell you what we see, and we'll be honest about it, but we don't appraise property and our opinion isn't a legal determination. California Civil Code §1988 uses a $700 resale-value line to decide whether unclaimed property can be disposed of or has to go to public sale. That call belongs to the landlord and their attorney. A room of broken particleboard is not $700. A garage with tools and a motorcycle might be.
No. Most property managers and out-of-town owners never meet us. Give us a lockbox code, a gate code or leave a key where you tell us, and we text when we arrive, when we're loading and when we're done, with after-photos of every room. If you want to walk it with us first, we're glad to, but it isn't required.
Household hazardous waste like paint, propane, pool chemicals and car batteries gets grouped in one spot and photographed, and we tell you where it goes. The Lake Elsinore permanent HHW facility at 512 N. Langstaff Street takes it free, up to 15 gallons or 125 pounds per trip. Needles in quantity, human or animal waste, or anything that looks like a drug operation is remediation work, not junk removal. We'll flag it on the walkthrough and refer you to a licensed company, then come back for the rest of the load once they've finished.
Yes. We bag and haul the contents and we take the fridge, with the $30 refrigerant handling fee that applies to any refrigerator, freezer or AC unit. Just tell us on the phone that the power's been off for a while so the crew brings the right bags. It doesn't change the price, it changes what we pack on the trailer.
Yes. Multi-unit days are common at the larger communities in Temecula and Murrieta. Each unit is quoted and invoiced as its own load or loads at the standard rates, and the crew works through them in order. Send photos of each unit and tell us which ones are clear to go and we'll build the day around it.
Only the standard stair surcharge: $150 on loads up to one-half, $300 on loads over one-half. If the building has an elevator there's no charge. Most garden-style apartment buildings in the valley don't have one, so tell us the floor when you send photos and the stair figure goes into the written estimate. No surprises on the invoice.
Usable furniture, clothing and household goods go to Habitat for Humanity, the Salvation Army and Goodwill. Metal, appliances and electronics go to recyclers, and e-waste to a certified handler because California keeps it out of landfills. Mattresses go to a mattress recycler when they're dry. What's left goes to a permitted Riverside County landfill or transfer station. Nothing gets dumped on a back road, ever.
No. We haul, sort and sweep. Deep cleaning, carpet, paint, drywall patches and locks are the make-ready trades, and most managers already have them lined up. What we do is get out of their way fast. Your cleaner can usually start the same afternoon we leave.
Yes. We photograph every room empty and swept before we leave and text or email the set with the invoice. Take your own before-photos at the lockout, since those are the ones that matter in a dispute, and keep ours with them.
Yes. Several attorneys and eviction services in the valley call us on their clients' behalf. Give us the sheriff date and the date your office expects the unit to be clear to dispose, and we hold the slot. We take our disposal instructions from you, in writing, and we don't act on anything else.
Yes. We cover Temecula, Murrieta, Menifee, Wildomar, Lake Elsinore, Canyon Lake, Winchester, French Valley, Hemet, Fallbrook, Rainbow and De Luz at the same rates. We're based on Niblick Road in Temecula, so nothing on that list is more than about 30 minutes away.
Get an eviction cleanout quote
Text photos of every room, the garage and the yard. You'll have a written number the same day and a crew the day after the unit's clear.
Wild West Junk Removal
41713 Niblick Rd, Temecula, CA 92591
Monday through Saturday, 7am to 7pm · Sunday closed
Family-owned, licensed & insured since 2021
References
Sources & useful links
The eviction and abandoned-property details on this page are general information from a junk removal company, not legal advice. The property owner or their authorized agent is responsible for deciding what may lawfully be disposed of. These are the sources we point landlords to:
- selfhelp.courts.ca.govCalifornia Courts — Eviction Cases in California (Self-Help)
- riverside.courts.ca.govRiverside County Superior Court — Evictions Self-Help
- oag.ca.govCalifornia Attorney General — Guidance on Unlawful Lockouts and Self-Help Evictions
- law.justia.comCalifornia Civil Code §1984 — Notice of Right to Reclaim Abandoned Property
- california.public.lawCalifornia Civil Code §1988 — Disposition of Unclaimed Property ($700 threshold)
- california.public.lawCode of Civil Procedure §715.010 — Writ of Possession and the 15-Day Property Window
- rcwaste.orgRiverside County Waste Resources — Household Hazardous Waste Collection
- Landlord guideThings to Know Before Starting an Eviction Cleanout
- Related serviceProperty Manager Turnover Cleanouts
- Related serviceForeclosure & REO Cleanout
- Related serviceHoarder Junk Removal
- Related serviceApartment Junk Removal
- Related serviceMattress Removal
- PricingJunk Removal Pricing & Volume Guide
- Donation & recyclingWhere Your Junk Actually Goes
Prices on this page ($195 quarter load, $350 half, $495 three-quarter, $595 full 12-yard trailer; stairs $150/$300, appliances $30, mattresses $15, extra loading time $75/hr per crew member) are current as of 11 September 2026 and apply throughout our Southwest Riverside County service area. Every job gets a written estimate before work starts.