Annapolis Movers with Upfront Pricing

Yes for any move where the truck blocks a street, alley, or sidewalk. Annapolis requires a Temporary Street-Sidewalk Obstruction Permit through City Public Works. We file the paperwork ahead of move day for every Historic District and downtown booking, post the no-parking signs 48 hours ahead, and the permit fee is included in your binding quote with no markup. Without a permit on a tight Historic District block, the truck circles for a non-permitted space and you pay us to walk an extra hundred feet on every load. Newer suburban Annapolis subdivisions outside the city limits typically don't need a city permit.

Yes, with the right size. We dispatch 16- to 20-foot trucks for Main Street, Maryland Avenue, Prince George Street, and the State Circle / Church Circle blocks rather than 26-footers. The 18th-century street widths and historic-district overlay restrict truck size on most residential blocks. For full-home moves where a 16-footer would mean three trips, we shuttle on a smaller truck and transfer at a staging lot in West Annapolis or Eastport before the long-haul drive. We also know which Historic District blocks have alley access we can use as an alternative loading point.

We measure your largest furniture during the quote walkthrough: bed frames, dressers, sectional couches, pianos, and king-size mattresses. If a piece won't fit a 28-inch staircase or a 30-inch original doorway, we hoist it through a second-floor side window with a tilt cart, four-strap rig, and a four-person crew. It's standard practice in Annapolis rowhouses built before 1850, and we've done it many times in the streets around State Circle and Church Circle. The hoist fee is built into your binding quote, not added on move day. We bring banister and wall protectors to keep the original woodwork intact.

Spring (March through May, except Commissioning Week in late May when USNA graduation closes downtown) and fall (September through November, except the U.S. Sailboat and Powerboat shows the second and third weekends of October when downtown is unmovable). Summer Saturdays are tourist-heavy and Historic District traffic is rough; we dispatch midweek or early-morning weekday slots when we can. The Bay Bridge weekend traffic in summer can add 30-60 minutes to inbound drives from Eastern Shore destinations. Winter is the cheapest, lowest-demand season; we add buffer time on snow days but most Annapolis winters are manageable.

Yes. We move clients across all of Anne Arundel County (Crofton, Severna Park, Pasadena, Glen Burnie, Edgewater, Davidsonville, Crownsville), plus into Howard County (Columbia, Ellicott City), Prince George's County, and Calvert County. Our HQ is in Gaithersburg, which makes Annapolis a 75-minute drive for our crews via US-50. We cover all these jurisdictions for moves within 50 miles of HQ. We also regularly handle Annapolis residents moving into D.C., Northern Virginia, Bethesda, Silver Spring, and the Eastern Shore (Easton, St. Michaels, Cambridge) for out of the state and longer-distance jobs.

Local single-family moves usually run $1,500 to $4,500 depending on size, stairs, and access. Historic District rowhouse moves run $1,800 to $4,000 since the right-of-way permit, smaller truck, and older stairs add labor. Long-distance moves are quoted by inventory and distance. Every quote is upfront and binding. No hourly creep.

Yes. We offer full and partial packing, with materials sized for typical Annapolis homes: dish packs for inherited china common in older Historic District homes, custom-fit boxes for art and antiques, picture cartons for framed art, wardrobe boxes for walk-in closets, and labeled storage for USNA-related and federal moves with sensitive paperwork. Most Annapolis packing jobs happen the day before move day; full estate packs (4-plus bedrooms with antique inventory typical of Historic District homes) sometimes split across two days. We bring extra padding for marble countertops common in newer downtown condos. The packing service can be booked separately or combined into a single binding quote.