Anyone who has tried to move a couch out of a Koreatown apartment building knows the drill before they even call for help. Narrow hallways, an elevator that fits two people and a hand truck if everyone holds their breath, and a loading zone on Wilshire or 6th that a delivery van has already claimed

Eagle Rock sits right at the edge of Los Angeles, tucked between Glendale and Pasadena, and the housing here reflects that in-between feeling. You’ve got wide-lot ranch homes and Craftsman bungalows with actual detached garages, a rarity compared to a lot of denser LA neighborhoods, plus a steady mix of rental housing near Occidental College

Highland Park has changed a lot over the past decade, and you can see it in what people are hauling out of their houses. Craftsman bungalows along the tree-lined streets near York Blvd are getting renovated one by one, longtime family homes near Figueroa are passing down to a new generation, and newer residents are

Echo Park is one of those neighborhoods where the housing stock tells you everything about the cleanout you’re about to deal with. Down by the lake it’s dense apartment buildings and duplexes stacked close together. Climb up into Elysian Heights or Angelino Heights and it’s Victorian cottages and hillside bungalows connected to the street by

Los Feliz has a split personality when it comes to housing, and it shows up the moment you start clearing out a place. On one side of Vermont Avenue you’ve got the big Tudor and Spanish Revival homes climbing into the hills toward Griffith Park, the kind of houses with a finished attic, a converted

If you live anywhere between the Silver Lake Reservoir and Sunset Junction, you already know the problem. Houses up here were not built with storage in mind. Half of them sit on a slope, the garage doubles as a junk closet, and the one closet under the stairs somehow ends up holding a broken treadmill