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Easier Houston Local Moving
Trust your belongings to an experienced Houston moving company. Suddath® provides high quality local moving services to the people who make Houston such a great place to live. What sets Suddath apart from other local Houston moving companies is that we offer a highly personalized experience. Each local move is assigned a dedicated move coordinator who will assist you in choosing your move services, whether you need packing services or your boat moved.
We take care of you and your items. With 40 years of local moving experience in Houston, we care about our customers and community. Our teams are your Houston friends and neighbors and work hard to ensure you have the best experience possible.
We want you to be excited about your new home and move and know that you have hired a trusted and experienced local Houston mover. Our staff is trained and equipped to protect your belongings and property. We take care of you at every step, taking extra precautions in your home and providing specialized packaging and crating as needed.
100+ YEARS
local moving experience
54,000
domestic home moves each year
Fully Vetted
moving crew and drivers
250+ hours
mentored training for crews
HOUSTON LOCAL MOVING MADE EASY
Convenient Estimation Process
With Suddath, we make getting a moving estimate easier – giving you the option to do to a walkthrough virtually via a mobile device, or by scheduling an in-person walkthrough with one of our experienced representatives. Choose the option that is most convenient for you and your schedule. Our goal is to simplify the local moving process, all the way from the initial quote process through to the final delivery of your goods.
Dedicated Houston Moving Coordinators
As you plan your local move to Houston, our local moving coordinators will carefully walk you through the process, to help you customize a moving program that works for your schedule and budget. Every customer is assigned a professional move coordinator who will personally assist you at every step of the process. They act as advisors on how to keep your move on budget, on time and as stress-free as possible. If your needs change in any way throughout the moving process, you will have only one number to call to help make your transition smoother.
Following your in-home survey and estimation process, your coordinator will provide you with any assets you need, such as a detailed moving checklist compiled by our experts and are readily available to help you begin preparing for your home move.
Expert Packing Assistance
Our team is trained to help pack every item in your house, and we offer complete packing services for customers who want us to professionally pack their items. We also have partial or DIY packing for customers who prefer a more hands-on approach. With partial packing, we pack based on your direction; we also offer quality materials and advice if you opt for DIY packing. On moving day, our team will wrap your furniture and protect your home space as we securely load your belongings in the truck for transit.
Easy Declutter and Storage Assistance
Moving offers you the opportunity to streamline the contents of your home. We can assist with temporary storage and decluttering if you’re staging your home, or long-term storage if you need some time before bringing all of your items into your new home. Successful moves are often based on timing and easy transitions, and if you realize the need for short- or long-term storage as you get settled in, our 160,000 square foot warehouse in the Houston metro area can be a quick and easy one-stop-shop solution.
SPECIALIZED LOCAL MOVING SERVICES
Houston Packing Services
With our full-service packing team, you can get the assistance you need to get your local Houston-area move prepped and ready to go, without any of the sweat equity. We use only the best materials and techniques, and employ background-checked, well-trained, professional movers.
Storage Services
Not sure what's going and what's staying? We offer secure household goods storage to keep your personal belongings secure for as long as you need. In certain locations, we offer temperature- or climate-controlled storageto safely store delicate items like art, antiques, or wine collections.
White-Glove Moving
High net-worth clients are accustomed to the finer things in life, why should that be any different when they are selecting an Houston local moving company? We only provide highly trained moving teams who are background-checked and experienced in moving clients who demand the best.
Custom Crating
Unique items or items that are particularly delicate, fragile or irregularly sized, may require their own tailored, custom crates built to protect these types of items. Our team consists of experts who will take measurements and build a crate to spec to protect these items.
LOCAL MOVING RESOURCES
HOUSTON LOCAL MOVING FAQ
Although the definition, in general, is probably obvious, there’s a more specific definition in the moving industry. If a relocation is fifty miles or less, that’s a local move. Beyond that, it’s a long-distance move. So, a local move could be moving from Sugar Land or The Woodlands to Houston—or within the city itself.
A local moving company in Houston may or may not charge by the hour. Each company can set their own rate structure independently of what others in the industry do. To help, here’s how Suddath structures its quotes for our local movers in Houston.
The Weight of Household Items
This is a key factor in the cost of a move, helping to explain why bigger households can have more moving costs than average-sized or small ones. It also demonstrates how, by reducing your belongings’ weight, you can reduce the cost of your relocation. To make that happen, toss, recycle, sell, donate, gift, and otherwise shrink the household items that you’ll store or have transported to your new dwelling. Complete this before reaching out for your quote from your local moving company in Houston to benefit most fully.
Your Relocation’s Distance
This factor has more impact with a long-distance move than with a local one because the latter type maxes out at fifty miles.
The Booked Date for Your Move
If you’d like the most cost-effective move, schedule yours on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. If doable, move from October through April to leverage the lower costs possible with an off-season relocation.
Optional Services Chosen
You choose exactly what you want and need from our flexible service menu: packing and unpacking services of choice (full or partial) and safe, secure, and convenient storage solutions.
Additional Moving Valuation Coverage
Valuation coverage isn’t the same as insurance, and you can find information about the differences. More details are available in the FAQ on this page titled “What is valuation coverage?”
For more information about how Suddath estimates the cost of local movers in Houston or to get a quote, contact us here.
Monday through Thursday relocations are generally more cost-effective than ones booked on a weekend. To further lower your costs, avoid moves from May through September if you can and navigate any local demand spikes in the area; this can include the holiday season.
To lower your costs further, before you get your quote from your local movers in Houston, reduce your belongings’ weight. When items no longer have value, toss or recycle them. Gently used ones can go to charities like these in Houston: Goodwill and Salvation Army as well as other, lesser-known options. If friends and family can use items you don’t want anymore, this would make a nice surprise gift to them. And, you can also sell belongings to raise money for your moving costs, as desired: online, at rummage sales, or in consignment shops.
Then, when you reach out for a moving estimate from local movers in Houston, it can help to know how much you’d like to go into storage.
Hundreds of thousands of people think so! When just looking from July 2022 to July 2023, about 140,000 people moved to the Houston metro area, which was the second biggest influx in the nation behind Dallas-Fort Worth. That brought the population in the Houston region to more than 7.5 million people. As the source notes, “We just keep getting bigger. But hey, more people means more friends to share those tacos with, right?”
Reasons (besides the tacos and other good eats) that people move to Houston include the strong economy and availability of jobs, a diverse community with an affordable cost of living (six percent lower than the national average), the lack of a state income tax, and plenty of outdoor recreation opportunities throughout the seasons. Then there’s the Houston Zoo, Houston Museum of Natural Science, The Museum of Fine Arts, the Space Center Houston, and so much more.
Although only you can decide the best community for your own lifestyle, there’s plenty to appreciate in Houston, Texas. For those considering a move to the area, we’ve also written a moving to Houston guide that provides valuable tips and resources to help you make an informed decision.
Well, it depends. If you enjoy packing, like to be hands-on, and/or have the time and supplies to do so, then you may decide that you don’t need significant help. If, though, packing feels like a daunting task—especially when you’re already busy enough with your move and other parts of daily life—then you may well appreciate professional expertise. With our local movers in Houston, we offer both full packing to take the entire task off of your shoulders and partial packing where you’re empowered to direct us what to box up: heavy furniture and appliances, maybe, or delicate belongings. You might want our experts to handle kitchen packing, too, because that can be an intricate process.
Here are several things to look at:
• Ask the local moving company in Houston for their licenses and accreditations. If they hesitate, that’s a red flag. (Note that Suddath will happily share ours.)
• Review the company’s website. Nowadays, there’s no good reason for a company not to have one.
• Reach out to the Better Business Bureau to find out how they rate the moving company.
• Ask friends or family members who moved in or out of Houston. What were their experiences? Whom would they recommend?
• As additional red flags, be wary if a mover knocks on your door to solicit business, will only provide a verbal quote, pressures you to choose them, or drives a truck with no (or a cheap, stick-on) logo.
Suddath is an experienced moving company in Houston, relocating families for more than one hundred years. Nowadays, we successfully complete about 80,000 residential moves annually.