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Apartment & Condo Moving

Downtown high-rises, U Street walk-ups, Navy Yard towers — we handle the building rules so you don’t have to.

Moving into or out of a DC apartment is half furniture, half paperwork. Downtown condo towers and Navy Yard high-rises want a certificate of insurance on file and a reserved freight-elevator window before they’ll let a mover through the loading dock. Skip either one and the building turns the crew away at the door.

District High Quality Movers handles all of it. We send the building its COI ahead of time, book the elevator window, and show up inside it with the right crew for the building you live in.

  • Licensed & insured — US DOT/MC & DMV household-goods registration
  • Set-price quotes in writing, with nothing buried
  • Our own uniformed movers and trucks

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Every DC building is its own puzzle. A glass tower in Navy Yard runs on a loading dock and a freight elevator you book by the hour. A walk-up off the U Street corridor or in Columbia Heights has none of that: just three or four flights of stairs and a landlord who notices scuffs. We staff and time the job for which one you’re in.

For high-rises, the certificate of insurance is the gatekeeper. Property managers want to see District High Quality Movers named, with the right coverage limits, days before the move. We’ve sent COIs to most of the major management companies downtown, so we know what each one expects and we get it on file early — not the morning of, when it’s too late.

High-Rise vs. Walk-Up

The two jobs look nothing alike, so we price and staff them differently.

Downtown high-rise

COI filed with the building, freight elevator reserved in a set window, dock-to-unit padding, and a crew sized to beat the clock on your reservation.

Walk-up apartment

Extra hands for the stairs, corner and bannister protection, and a parking permit out front so the carry starts at the door, not down the block.

Either way

The same uniformed crew, full blankets and shrink-wrap, and a flat written price you see before we start.

What It Costs

Apartment moves run on the same flat bands as our other local work, billed by home size.

Apartment size Typical flat price
Studio $420 – $680
1-bedroom $700 – $1,150
2-bedroom $1,200 – $1,900

Hourly is also an option at $159/hr for two movers or $209/hr for three, and a $129 deposit holds your date.

What’s Not Included

  • Building COI fees, if your management company charges to process one (most don’t; we’ll tell you if yours does)
  • Freight-elevator deposits some buildings hold and refund after the move
  • Packing, if you’d like it — full-pack from $440, partial-pack available
  • Emergency no-parking permits for street-level loading on a walk-up

Covered in your price

Everything our DC movers bring on move day — nothing tacked on, nothing sprung on you.

  • Certificate of insurance sent to your building ahead of the move
  • Freight-elevator window reserved and the crew sized to hit it
  • Extra hands and bannister protection for U Street and Columbia Heights walk-ups
  • Full blankets, shrink-wrap, and floor and corner protection
  • A flat written price you see before we start, with $1,000,000 cargo coverage
  • Our own uniformed W-2 movers — the same crew load to unload

What Washington customers say

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“We recently had Damon and Terrell out to help move from one apartment to another within the same complex. They did an excellent job! They were friendly and courteous!”

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“Great and dedicated workers ( Damon and Terrell) very smooth and easy experience!”

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Capitol Hill · local

Questions we hear a lot

Can you provide a certificate of insurance for my building?
Yes, and we do it for nearly every downtown and Navy Yard move. Send us your building’s COI requirements when you book and we’ll get the certificate to your management company days ahead of time, named correctly and with the limits they ask for, so there’s no hold-up at the dock on moving day.
How does the freight-elevator reservation work?
Most DC high-rises let you reserve the freight elevator in a set window — often a few hours. We book that window with your building, then staff the crew so the move fits inside it comfortably. If your building shares one elevator across the whole tower, we plan around its schedule rather than leaving it to chance.
I’m in a walk-up with no elevator — can you still help?
Absolutely. Stairs are routine for us, whether it’s a U Street walk-up or a Columbia Heights three-flight. We bring extra hands so the carry moves quickly, protect the bannisters and corners, and pull a parking permit out front so your crew isn’t adding a long walk to every trip.
Do you handle small studio moves, or only big jobs?
We do plenty of studios and one-bedrooms. A studio runs $420 to $680 flat with a 2-mover crew, and we treat it with the same care and the same written price as any larger move. There’s no minimum that prices out a small apartment.

Ready to move with District High Quality Movers?

Tell us your ZIP codes and move date — Damon or Tanya sends back a flat written price the same day. Our own uniformed crew, our own trucks, hired and trained in-house, and the number doesn’t change on move day.

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