The Building Decides the Day

What changes the figure here is less the size of the home than the type of property.

A house in Eastern Shores or Sky Lake loads straight from the driveway onto the truck. Two movers and a van can clear a small property in a morning. A condo on the 163rd Street corridor moves through a booked service elevator on a window the building sets, and that window governs the pace regardless of how many movers are on the job.

When you ask for a price, tell us which of the two you have. It is the single most useful piece of information for getting the estimate close.

Labor-Only Jobs

Not every job needs our truck. If you have hired a container or a rental truck and need movers to load or unload it, we book that as a labor job at an hourly rate. It is common here for partial moves, for loading a container ahead of a long distance relocation, and for shifting furniture during a floor replacement. See our moving labor service.

Insurance Documents for Local Buildings

The Pro Movers Miami registrations are US DOT 2855891, MC 956262, Florida IM 2721, and MR 01221. Condo buildings along the corridor ask for a certificate of insurance before approving a date, and we send it straight to management.

Storage, Seasonal Moves, and Partial Loads

Not every job here is a full household going from one address to another on one day.

Seasonal owners along the coast move in and out on a schedule and often need goods held between seasons rather than shipped twice. Closings slip, and a shipment needs somewhere to sit for a week or two between dates. And plenty of jobs are partial, meaning one room, a garage, or a few large pieces rather than a whole house.

We book all three the same way. Storage is climate-controlled, partial loads are quoted on what is actually moving rather than on the size of the property, and seasonal moves can be booked as a pair so the return leg is already scheduled. See storage and moving labor.

Short-Notice and Same-Week Moves

Being based in the area is worth most when the date moves on you rather than when it is planned months out.

Closings fall through, leases end sooner than expected, and sometimes a building hands you an elevator slot at three days’ notice. Because the yard is on NE 5th Avenue rather than across the county, we can often cover a short-notice job here when a company dispatching from South Miami cannot, and we can get a second truck or more materials to the address inside the same day if the job turns out bigger than described.

Call rather than fill in the form if your date is inside a week. It is quicker and we will tell you straight away whether we can cover it.