Now Hiring 1099 Contractors in Louisville, KY — Franchise Track
Junk Removal Contractor Jobs in Louisville
Own a truck or trailer in Louisville? We hand you the customers. You run the job, keep $100/hr per man, plus 50% of items we resell — and your labor share hits your bank account within 30 minutes of job completion. The Louisville contractors who run jobs at a high standard during the pilot phase get first dibs on the Louisville franchise territory when we open the model.
Owner-Operator Junk Removal in Louisville, KY
What Running Jobs in Louisville Looks Like
Our Louisville contractors handle all 34 junk removal services — from furniture pickup to full estate cleanouts. See how our $200/hr customer pricing works and why we're different.
As a Louisville contractor, you run jobs directly for local homeowners, businesses, property managers, and estate executors. You load items, identify resale value, present appraisals to customers in real time, and deliver an experience that gets 5-star reviews. Local knowledge — Louisville neighborhoods, dump sites, recycling centers, the local resale market — makes every job faster and every appraisal more accurate. The Louisville operators who develop that local expertise the fastest are the ones we want as franchise owners when we open the model.
The job is physical — lifting, carrying, loading, driving across Louisville and the surrounding metro. It is also a thinking job. You learn to tell the difference between a $50 IKEA bookshelf and a $500 Pottery Barn one. You learn which appliances hold value in Louisville and which electronics have active resale markets in KY. You learn which neighborhoods reliably generate high-resale loads versus pure-volume hauls. That appraisal skill is what makes this role fundamentally different from every other hauling gig in Louisville, and it's what drives the resale share that turns a good operator into a top earner.
You're paid $100/hr per man, with your labor share landing in your bank account within 30 minutes of job completion. Items we resell from your loads — half the proceeds come back to you, paying as items move (usually inside 30 days). You pick your jobs from the queue — the ones that fit your schedule, your truck or trailer, and your route through Louisville.
How the Pay Works in Louisville
$100/hr + 50% Resale, Paid in 30 Minutes
We charge customers $200/hr per man. You keep $100/hr per man for labor. The platform takes the other $100/hr to cover customer acquisition, dispatch, the booking system, customer support, insurance overhead, and the resale supply chain. On top of the hourly, every item from your Louisville loads that resells nets you 50% of the profit.
The hourly
$100 per man-hour worked in Louisville. When you close out a job in the app, the customer's card is charged automatically, the platform takes its share, and your labor cut is pushed to your linked bank account or debit card within 30 minutes. No invoicing, no chasing payment, no net-30 wait.
The resale share
Every item from your Louisville loads with resale value goes to the partner network. When it sells, the net (sale price minus listing fees, shipping, storage) is split 50/50 between you and the company. Resale share lands in your account as items move — most inside 30 days.
No invoice chase
The platform handles every payment. Customer's card is captured at booking and charged automatically at job completion. If a customer disputes, the platform handles the dispute — not you. You still get paid your hourly out of platform reserves while it's investigated.
The Resale Side — Where Louisville Top Operators Get Rich
Resale Value Is the Difference Between $5K and $25K a Month
Most Louisville loads contain $100–$500 of resaleable value. Estate cleanouts and office cleanouts in Louisville routinely contain $2,000–$10,000+. Your hourly pays the bills — your resale share is what compounds.
What counts as resaleable: Furniture in usable condition (solid wood, leather, name brands like Pottery Barn, West Elm, Restoration Hardware, Ethan Allen — they hold 30–60% of retail value). Working appliances (fridges, washers, dryers, ovens, dishwashers — Louisville landlords and flippers buy these constantly, especially stainless steel). Electronics under five years old (TVs, gaming consoles, computers, monitors, audio gear — Apple holds value exceptionally well). Power tools (DeWalt, Milwaukee, Makita, Ridgid — 40–70% of retail). Exercise equipment (Pelotons, Bowflexes, Concept2 rowers). Musical instruments. Outdoor furniture and grills. Bicycles. Antiques. Collectibles. Anything with a brand name and an active KY buyer.
How the on-site appraisal works: You log the item in the app with a photo. The app pulls live comparable sales data from eBay, Facebook Marketplace, and Mercari — what the same item sold for in the last 30, 60, and 90 days. You see a suggested appraisal range, you confirm, the customer sees the same data and approves their 50% credit. Sub-30 seconds per item. The customer watches their bill go down live as you work. They love it. Your ticket size goes up.
What resale earnings look like per job in Louisville: A small apartment cleanout might have $200 resale net = $100 in your pocket on a 90-minute job. A typical Louisville residential cleanout: $400–$800 resale net = $200–$400 to you. A high-end Louisville home or estate cleanout: $2,000–$8,000+ resale net = $1,000–$4,000+ to you on a single job. Office cleanouts with name-brand chairs, standing desks, and IT gear can exceed $10,000 resale net. The Herman Miller chairs from a 30-person Louisville office: $9,000–$15,000 retail, $4,500–$7,500 resale, $2,250–$3,750 to you on top of your hourly.
The compounding effect: The longer you run jobs in Louisville, the better you get at spotting value. The top operators develop an eye for sleeper items — a vintage stereo receiver that looks like garbage but resells for $300, a dusty mid-century chair worth $1,500, a tool box with $400 of Snap-On hand tools. That skill compounds. Your resale checks grow month over month. After six months, top Louisville operators are earning more from resale than from hourly. These are the operators we want as Louisville franchise owners.
Franchise Track in Louisville
Louisville Pilot Operators Become Louisville Franchise Owners
We are the first junk removal company that pays customers back for the resale value of their items. That model is patentable, defensible, and once it's proven at scale it becomes a franchise that sells for real territory fees. The 1099 pilot is the proving ground — and the Louisville pilot operators are the ones we want as the Louisville franchise owner.
First right of refusal on Louisville territory
Contractors who run Louisville jobs at a high standard during the pilot — 4.8+ star average, on-time arrivals, accurate appraisals, no major customer complaints, steady volume — get a private invitation to convert the Louisville operating area into an exclusive franchise territory. Exclusivity, full appraisal training, the booking inflow, brand rights, the resale supply chain, and operating support. Pilot operators get grandfathered pricing on franchise terms.
The Louisville system already works
Dispatch, customer acquisition (SEO across Louisville and the rest of Kentucky, paid ads, the booking platform), the appraisal pipeline, the resale partner network, payments, customer support, insurance — operational and serving paying customers right now. You are not co-founding anything. You are stepping into a working system that already books Louisville jobs daily.
Requirements for Louisville Contractor Jobs
What We're Looking For in Louisville
Owner-operator role. You bring the equipment, we bring the customers, the appraisal training, the payment infrastructure, and the resale pipeline. See our main careers page for full details on the pay structure and franchise track.
A Day in the Life — Louisville
How a Louisville Work Day Runs
No central dispatch yard, no morning roll-call. Jobs come to your phone, you decide which to take, you handle them with your own truck or trailer on your own Louisville route.
Jobs come to you: When a Louisville customer books, the job hits your app within seconds. Address, items, photos if uploaded, estimated hours, expected payout, customer's preferred time window. Accept or pass — passed jobs flow to the next available Louisville contractor.
Run the job: Show up on time, walk the cleanout with the customer, agree on what's going, what's staying, what has resale potential. Load the truck. As you find items with resale value, you scan, the app pulls comp data, you confirm the appraisal, the customer's 50% credit posts to their invoice in real time. Their bill goes down as you work.
Dump or resale routing: Non-value items go to the Louisville dump or transfer station — those fees come out of your hourly (which is why we built the buffer into the rate). Items with resale value get routed to the partner network. The app tells you exactly where to drop each one.
Mark complete, get paid: Job done, you mark it complete in the app. Customer's card is charged automatically. Within 30 minutes, your hourly share lands in your bank account. Resale share starts moving when items sell — usually inside 30 days.
Repeat or call it a day: Open your app, see what else is in the Louisville queue. Take it or close out. Average solo operator runs 2–4 jobs per work day. Two-man crew can do 4–6. Top Louisville operators chain 6–8 on a hot day.
Our Kentucky Office — Serving Louisville
On West Market Street in downtown Louisville between 4th and 5th Streets. Take I-64 to exit 4 for 3rd Street. Parking available at 4th Street garages.
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$100/hr per man
Paid within 30 minutes of job completion
50% of resale
Items we resell from your loads — pays as items move
Franchise track
Pilot operators get first dibs on Louisville territory
✓ Truck or trailer (trailer minimum)
✓ Valid driver's license & clean record
✓ Vehicle insurance
✓ Smartphone with data plan
✓ Pass background check
✓ 18+ years old