Short-term storage for the gap between moves
Closings rarely line up, leases overlap or leave you stranded, and a college-town schedule means plenty of valley moves happen with a few weeks of nowhere-to-put-it in the middle. Smooth Movers solves that with short-term storage that is part of the move, not a separate headache. We load your home, hold your goods in our secure indoor facility, and bring them back when your new place is ready. One licensed Massachusetts crew handles the whole arc, intake to redelivery.
Whether the job is in Amherst or downtown Northampton, Northampton movers hands you one flat number up front and holds it — nothing creeps onto the bill on move day.
Stored the way you would want it stored
Your belongings do not get tossed loose into a unit. At intake we tag and inventory everything, pad-wrap the furniture, and store it palletized and off the floor. The space is kept dry and indoor, which matters in New England where a humid August and a deep-freeze January are both hard on wood and upholstery left in an unheated shed. You get a signed receipt for what went in, so there is no guessing about what comes back out.
Common reasons valley customers store with us
- The sale closes before the purchase, with a few weeks in between
- A lease ends in May but the new place is not ready until summer
- A renovation that has to happen with the house empty
- A faculty sabbatical or a temporary out-of-area assignment
- Downsizing in stages while a home gets sorted and listed
One crew, in and out
The big advantage is continuity. The same crew that wrapped and loaded your home is the crew that redelivers and sets it up, so nobody is unfamiliar with your inventory and you are not renting your own truck to retrieve your couch. Specialty items and pianos can be stored with the right handling noted up front.
Simple monthly billing
Storage is billed by the month and folded into your moving quote, and the $110 deposit that holds your move date applies to the bill. Tell us roughly how long the gap will be and we will price it cleanly, then redeliver around your closing or move-in date. Get my free moving quote and we will work the storage stretch into your plan.
What’s included
- Clean, dry, secure storage for the gap between closings or leases, billed by the month
- Smooth Movers loads, stores, and redelivers, so your goods are handled by one crew throughout
- Inventory tagging at intake and a signed receipt, so you know exactly what went in
- Pad-wrapped and palletized handling, no items left loose on a warehouse floor
- Climate-conscious indoor storage that suits New England humidity swings and winter cold
- Flexible redelivery scheduled around your closing date, with storage noted on your flat quote
How the price gets set
We start with a short walkthrough or video survey, and from your actual inventory we set one flat Pioneer Valley rate — no hourly meter buried anywhere inside it. Whatever that quote reads is the whole price, with nothing added once the truck is loaded or a Nor’easter pushes the date.