Here's the trade-off with Foreclosure Cleanout: it is a property cleared to a deadline, often with unknown contents and no utilities, so the usual assumptions don't apply. This is the detail that separates a fair quote from a surprise invoice: no power or water on site changes what crews can do and how long it takes.
What you see is cubic yards. What you pay for past the limit is tons. Dense material closes that gap fast. If banks, realtors and investors sounds like you, expect to size somewhere in the 20 or 30 yard range β that's where most bookings like yours settle. What's in the load and how long it stays are the only two variables that move the number.
Nobody knows what's actually in a garage or estate cleanout until it's being carried out the door, so the safer order is one size larger than the first guess. Ask whether the quote already accounts for the delivery address, or whether it's a base rate that changes once the drive distance gets factored in. A smaller container costs less and a second pull costs more β that's the trade-off, not a guessing game.