Apartment moves — high-rises, walk-ups, and student leases
Apartment work is its own animal in Baltimore. The Inner Harbor and Harbor East towers want COIs, freight-elevator reservations, and a window of two to four hours; Mt. Vernon and Bolton Hill walk-ups want four flights of stairs with no elevator at all; and the Towson and JHU Homewood lease-turn season wants three trucks rolling at once on August 1st.
Tomás Quintero runs most of the high-rise jobs for me. He’s loaded out of HarborView, Liberty Harbor East, the Vue at the Inner Harbor, and 414 Light so many times that the property managers call him by his first name. He plans the elevator window before he ever puts pads on the lobby walls.
The buildings we move every week
- Inner Harbor and Harbor East waterfront high-rises with strict COIs and freight elevators
- Locust Point and Tide Point converted-warehouse lofts
- Mt. Vernon brownstone walk-ups, three and four floors with no elevator
- Bolton Hill marble-stoop walk-ups and Charles Village student housing
- Towson U lease turnovers and Hampden two-bedroom apartments above retail
How an apartment move runs
- Book it — give Theresa your building name, your address, and your dates
- She files the COI and locks the elevator window with the management office
- I send the binding flat rate by email, on letterhead, before the deposit
- Tomás’s crew shows up in uniform with floor runners, wall pads, and a four-wheel dolly per mover
Apartment-move pricing
| Apartment size | Crew | Typical flat rate |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | 2 movers @ $155/hr | $465–$775 |
| 1-bed Inner Harbor high-rise | 3 movers @ $205/hr | $820–$1,230 |
| 2-bed Mt. Vernon walk-up | 3 movers @ $205/hr | $1,025–$1,540 |
| 2-bed Harbor East high-rise | 4 movers, flat-rate quoted | $1,440–$2,050 |
Released value at $0.60/lb is included on every job, full-value protection is optional, and the truck carries up to $1,000,000 in cargo coverage. Need a place to park your boxes between leases? Short-term storage at our East-Baltimore yard handles that. And if you’re moving from a city apartment to a real house, my residential crew takes the larger jobs. Heading down to Federal Hill or Canton? Both are core neighborhoods for us.
What is folded into your Baltimore, MD flat rate
- COI filed with your high-rise management — Inner Harbor, Harbor East, HarborView, Locust Point
- Freight-elevator reservation coordinated by Theresa with the building before move day
- Wall and elevator pad-protection on every floor we touch, top floor and lobby
- Long-carry from the garage or loading dock to your unit handled inside the flat rate
- Wardrobe boxes loaned so closets move hanging, not folded into trash bags
- Disassembly and reassembly of IKEA beds, futons, and West Elm sectionals included
What will it run?
Two uniformed movers + the truck on the clock at $155/hr, or close the meter entirely with one countersigned Charm City flat number covering the full job in writing
Moving pads, four-wheel dollies, shrink film and the standard COI paperwork that Inner Harbor and Harbor East buildings demand are folded into either rate. A bump to three movers plus the rig sits at $205/hr.
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