Happy Hauling Crew is a family-owned junk removal service based in San Clemente, California. We offer efficient and compassionate cleanup services for homes and businesses, while also actively contributing to our community. Our mission is to provide a clutter-free space and a happy smile to every customer, with a strong commitment to recycling and repurposing items whenever possible.

A Family Owned Business

Happy Hauling Crew founder Ryan Aguilar is a long time San Clemente resident, born and raised in California, with a passion for helping people. He is happily married to the love of his life, Stephanie, and has two children. Ryan and Stephanie share a philosophy to wake up each day and consider what they can do to make their community a better place to live.

With over 20 years in the loan industry, working at every level, Ryan decided he wanted to branch out from the stressful corporate world to do something a little different. Ryan loves this big change and appreciates serving his community and improving the lives of others by clearing clutter with his hauling business, helping people save money on their energy bills with solar. He also continues to provide loan and real estate consulting/services.

Additionally, Ryan has many professional accomplishments and holds multiple current licenses and certifications. Ryan is a licensed Real Estate Agent for 13 years, licensed Loan Officer for almost 20 years, licensed Home Improvement Sales Person, and Solar Energy Specialist.

Volunteer Work

This husband and wife team, along with their children, have dedicated countless hours to community volunteer work. Together, with other members of the community, they started a successful and thriving non profit, the San Clemente Skatepark Coalition in which they advocated for the skateboarding community and helped raise $50,000 to put lights in the city skatepark.

Ryan is a surfer and very interested in water safety. He holds a Senior Instructor certification, for Deep End Fitness, teaching water-based fitness, safety, and breath techniques to children, and adults, as well as amateur and professional athletes. This specialized certification allows Ryan to work with professional athletes, kids, and individuals with special needs.

As a family, the Aguilar’s have also volunteered with non profit, The Friends of San Clemente Foundation, for which Stephanie was a board member and Secretary, for nearly a decade.

Our Happy Family

Ryan and Stephanie homeschool their two children who have many passionate hobbies.

Their son is an avid surfer, enjoys reading books, playing music and talking sports. Their daughter loves to bake, do anything crafty, and you might catch her at local open mic’s singing with her ukulele, guitar or piano.

In their free time you will most often find the whole family at the beach surfing, playing music together, and spending time as a 4-pack.

The Aguilar’s also can be found hanging out with their many rescue pets which include 3 dogs, a bunny, and chickens!

Our Vision

Our goal is to touch the lives of those in our community in a positive way by helping people to clear their environment of items that are no longer serving them. Cleaning up one’s environment can have many positive impacts on ones overall well-being. We want to help make the lives of every person we encounter better and happier.

Compassion is Our Core Value

At Happy Hauling Crew we understand that getting rid of one’s possessions can be accompanied by many varied challenges. Sometimes parting with items can bring up a lot of different feelings for our customers. In some cases getting rid of possessions feels wonderful and it’s easy and freeing. For some people it can also be painful or hard.

We encourage customers facing emotional challenges with organizing, downsizing, or going through hard choices to work with professional organizers or sometimes therapists can be helpful with learning to separate emotional connections to material things.

We are committed to treating our customers with compassion and understanding with these varied and nuanced circumstances. We will handle items as carefully and respectfully as possible as they are removed from our jobs. We always strive to find a new life for unwanted items, donating or repurposing and recycling.

At Happy Hauling Crew, we do every job with the mindset that with every action we take we can help improve the lives of others.