Licensed Texas (TxDMV) mover Est. 2012 Dayton & Greater Houston 4.9★ / 32 reviews
Moving service · Dayton & Greater Houston

Apartment & High-Rise Moving

Spend a minute on the form — and we email back a binding flat rate, laid out top to bottom, before the business day closes

Your written number is back before the business day wraps. Free estimate, no strings. Anything you send stays with our Dayton office — we never sell it off or kick it to a broker.

Where Greater Houston checks out a mover first

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01 Overview

Apartment, Townhome and High-Rise Moves

Vertical moving is its own skill, and Space City Movers has it dialed in. We move studios in the suburbs, walk-ups in Channelview, three-story townhomes in the Heights, and high-rise condos in midtown and downtown Houston. Every one starts with our own crew and our own truck — never a broker passing your move down a chain — and every one comes with a flat written price so the building’s rules never become your surprise.

From Baytown to Kingwood, Greater Houston movers turns the whole job into one flat figure before move day and stands behind it, with nothing extra waiting at the end.

We Speak Building Management

Towers and managed communities don’t just let a truck roll up. They want a certificate of insurance naming the property and management company, a reserved service elevator, a booked loading dock and a strict move window. Our office manager Brooke Hammond handles all of it before move day — the COI written exactly how your building wants it, the elevator and dock reserved, the pads ready for the common areas. By the time the crew arrives, the paperwork is already on file with the front desk.

Stairs, Tight Turns and Houston Humidity

Plenty of Greater Houston units have no elevator at all. Heights bungalows carved into apartments, three-story townhomes off Washington Avenue, and older garden complexes mean real stair work. Shawn Kowalski’s crews bring stair-climbing dollies, shoulder straps and the extra hands a top-floor carry needs, and we start early so nobody’s hauling a sofa up three flights in the worst of the afternoon heat.

Straightforward Apartment Pricing

An apartment flat rate opens at $389 for a studio or one-bedroom and rises with the size of the unit and the number of stairs — and yes, the dock window, elevator pads and COI are baked in, not surprises. Prefer hourly? Two movers and a truck run $185 an hour, three run $255, with the first hour never padded. A $105 deposit holds your slot and credits to the balance. Your goods carry the 60-cents-per-pound released-value standard, full-value protection is available, and every move is covered up to $1,000,000 in cargo per shipment.

  • Studios to downtown high-rise condos, COIs and dock windows handled
  • Service-elevator and loading-dock reservations coordinated by our office
  • Stair specialists for Heights units and multi-level townhomes
  • Flat price that already includes the building’s requirements

Renting in a tower or a townhome? Get my free moving quote and we’ll sort the building paperwork with it.

What’s included

  • Apartment and high-rise moves across Houston, midtown and downtown towers, Channelview and the suburbs
  • Certificates of insurance (COIs) prepared and sent to your building's management ahead of move day
  • Service-elevator and loading-dock reservations coordinated with the property by our office
  • Crew trained for tight townhome staircases, narrow Heights units and freight-elevator timing
  • Floor runners and elevator pads to protect common areas and meet building rules
  • Flat apartment-move pricing from $389, with the $105 deposit credited to your final bill

How we land on the price

It begins with a short walkthrough or video survey, and off your actual inventory we set one flat Greater Houston rate — no hourly meter hiding anywhere inside it. Whatever that quote reads is the whole price, with nothing tacked on once the truck is loaded or a storm slides in off the Gulf and shifts the date.

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02 How we protect your move

We treat your things the way we'd want ours treated

Every truck pulls out loaded with pads, shrink film, and floor runners — ready to blanket furniture, keep tile and hardwood clean through a muddy summer downpour, and cushion the breakables, whether it's a brick ranch on slab out in Liberty County, an Atascocita home on Lake Houston, or a high-rise condo downtown with a freight elevator to reserve.

Quilted pads

Dressers, dining tables, and headboards get blanketed right where they sit, padding on long before anything rolls toward the door.

Stretch film

Drawers stay shut and cushions stay clean — wrapped tight so road grime and a damp, humid walk to the truck never reach the fabric.

Floor & doorway guards

Runners rolled out, rails wrapped, jambs padded — first thing we do at both homes, so floors and corners look untouched after the last trip out.

Built-to-fit crating

Right in the room, before anything fragile leaves it, we measure a mirror, glass tabletop, framed canvas, or flat screen corner to corner and build the crate around it for a snug, exact fit.

Break-down & rebuild

Bed frames, dining tables, and sectionals come apart to ride safe, and once they're through the new door our crew puts every one back together.

Straps, dollies & gear

A third-floor walk-up downtown, a long load-out across a flooded yard, or the single heaviest piece in the house — each calls up the right tie-downs and rigging off our truck, and none of it gets left behind.

03 Why us

The name on the door of the truck is the same name at the bottom of your contract

Book Space City Movers and the truck rolling up your driveway is ours, the contract is ours, and the uniformed crew walking your sofa out through the Gulf heat is on our Greater Houston payroll — your move never gets sold off. A broker works the other way around: they auction your job to whoever bids lowest that week, collect their cut, and step out of it for good.

Space City Movers
  • Our trucks, our fleet, and the full-time background-checked movers riding in them are on our own payroll — we never fill out a crew with day labor pulled off a listing site
  • The figure we write down is the figure you pay — set, signed, and accurate to the dollar before the first box gets lifted
  • The same crew end to end, from the first piece out the old door to the last one set down at the new place
  • Texas (TxDMV) household-goods registration, USDOT/MC authority for interstate runs, and every job carried on full insurance with up to $1,000,000 in cargo coverage
  • One point of contact at our Dayton office, with you from that first call straight through to the last box carried inside
What a broker does
  • Farms your move out to whatever crew undercuts the rest in the week you happened to call
  • Lets the total drift up once the truck shows, stacked with line items nobody mentioned the day you signed
  • Sends strangers you have never spoken to through your front door, putting your whole household in the hands of a crew you can't vouch for
  • Leaves it a guess whose insurer covers it the day a TV corner catches a doorframe
  • Parks a call center between you and whoever finally shows up to load, so one simple question turns into a runaround
04 Reviews

Straight from the Greater Houston families we've moved

★★★★★

“Great experience would move with them again”

Vince W., Dayton · Google
★★★★☆

“They were professional, fast and affordable. I will definitely book with them again 🙂”

Jen F., The Heights · Google
★★★★★

“Just use them for my move. Couldn’t recommend them enough!! So efficient and nice!!”

Doug B., Barbers Hill · Google
05 Good to know

Questions we hear about this service

My downtown high-rise requires a certificate of insurance before any mover can use the dock — can you handle that?
We do this constantly, so it's no trouble. Brooke in our office gets your building's COI requirements, lists the property and management company as additional insured the way they want it, and sends the certificate over before move day. Most midtown and downtown Houston towers also want a service-elevator reservation, which we lock in at the same time.
I'm in a Heights townhome with three flights of stairs and no elevator — is that doable?
Absolutely. Tight townhome stairs and narrow Houston Heights units are a big part of what we do. Shawn Kowalski leads our stairs crews, and we bring shoulder straps, stair-climbing dollies and extra hands so a third-floor carry doesn't turn into an all-day ordeal in the humidity.
What does an apartment move cost?
Apartment flat rates open at $389 for a studio or one-bedroom and move up from there with size and stair count. If you'd rather pay by the hour, two movers and a truck are $185 and three are $255, minimum hour waived. Whatever the building throws at us — dock windows, elevator pads, COIs — is already in your flat number, not tacked on later.

Want us on this job? Start with a free quote.

Tell us what the move involves; from there we work up the flat-rate estimate and send it over the same business day it lands.

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