Junk Removal in the
Jade District & Lents

The one crew on 82nd that speaks the neighborhood's languages

The stretch of 82nd Avenue and Division anchored by the Jade District and Lents is unlike anywhere else in Portland: a working immigrant-and-refugee commercial core organized around APANO, home to communities representing well over a hundred languages, where neighborhood meetings run in Cantonese, Vietnamese, Russian, Spanish, and English. It's Vietnamese phở houses and Chinese grocers, Latino taquerías and Russian bakeries, older bungalows and apartment blocks with a lot of senior and first-generation residents. What it has never had is a junk-removal crew that speaks its languages. That's the gap we fill — no franchise on 82nd offers this, and for a lot of families it's the difference between calling and not calling.

So the pitch is simple. Text a photo of what needs to go with a note in whatever language you're comfortable in, or call and ask for Vietnamese, Chinese, or Spanish, and we'll handle the quote and the scheduling from there. One flat price that covers the crew, the carry-out, the drive, and the disposal — no hourly meter, no surprises at the door, and no sales tax to reconcile, because Oregon doesn't have one.

Restaurant, grocer & small-business clear-outs

82nd Avenue is a street of family businesses, and family businesses close, remodel, and change hands. When they do, somebody has to empty the space — and a commercial kitchen is a heavy, awkward job most junk crews would rather not touch. We do. We clear reach-in coolers and commercial fridges, chest and upright freezers, gas ranges and range hoods, prep tables and metal shelving, ice makers, dining tables and stacks of chairs, salon stations, and store fixtures. We can work after hours so we're not in the way of service, split heavy equipment to get it out the back, and route what's still usable to a restaurant-supply resale channel instead of the landfill. Whether it's a single walk-in cooler or a whole storefront gutted for the next tenant, it prices flat from photos.

What we haul in the Jade District & Lents

• Restaurant & grocer equipment — coolers, freezers, ranges, hoods, prep tables, shelving, and fixtures, cleared after hours.
• Apartment move-outs — Lents and outer-SE turnover: couch, mattress, and the rest, carried out and hauled same day.
• Senior & family downsizing — patient, respectful clear-outs of a bungalow or apartment, in the family's language.
• Garage & SFH cleanouts — decades of storage out of the garage, basement, or yard on the side streets off 82nd.
• Appliances & furniture — fridges with the freon handled, washers, dressers, and heavy pieces pulled from tight spaces.

The city's bulky pickup vs. one flat price

The City of Portland bulky-waste program will take household items, but it's built for a different job than this one: it's curbside-only, priced per item with an $18 trip fee plus $6–$51 an item, and it can take up to seven days — and it won't touch commercial kitchen equipment, and it won't come inside to carry anything. For a restaurant that has to be empty by the end of the week, or a senior clearing an apartment who can't drag a fridge to the curb, that's not an option. We are: crew comes to the unit or the storefront, carries it out, and hauls it the same day for one flat price with no tax. That same-day, full-service, carry-it-out, multilingual lane is exactly what 82nd Avenue was missing.

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We serve the Jade District in the languages the neighborhood actually speaks. If you'd rather read and book in your own language, we have full pages for that — and if you speak Russian, Somali, or another language, call us and we'll find a way to help.

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