JDog Junk Removal & Hauling

JDog Junk Removal & Hauling is the Merrimack, New Hampshire franchise of the veteran-owned JDog brand, run by John Elias, and southern New Hampshire homeowners hire it for the jobs nobody wants to face alone: a whole-house clean-out, a garage attic untouched for decades, an apartment emptied after a death in the family. The written record is unusually consistent for a small operation — 22 reviews on Google between 2021 and 2026, every one of them positive, and most naming John or his office manager Sydney by name. In a 2024 review a customer emptying a 60-year-old home described the crew as professional and meticulous from the moment they arrived, and said they had hired them a second time within six months. Price discipline is the recurring theme. A 2023 reviewer in Hollis said John came out for a free quote and came in under the $500 they expected; another that year said he stuck to his estimate for hauling two couches down from a second-floor apartment; a 2024 reviewer said the final total came in below the estimate. A New Hampshire Reddit commenter said in 2023 that the quote they got through Yelp was spot-on accurate for what they were charged. The work extends past hauling: reviewers describe furniture moved between floors, a fridge wrestled through narrow doors, carpet pulled from bedrooms and stairs, gutted drywall cleared after a flooded basement, and labour loading a trailer for a move. Several mention the crew sweeping up the debris trail before leaving. What is worth knowing: this is a franchise of a national brand, so the reviews here are about the local Merrimack team, not the JDog network, and none of the national brand's figures apply to it. Recent volume is also lighter than the back catalogue — only two reviews in the past six months. Ask for the quote in writing, and confirm any hazard surcharge up front (one 2024 customer was charged one, and expected it, for a bed-bug job).