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Short-Term & Between-Sale Storage in Chicago

Between a sale and a closing or across the winter, your household stays secured, clean, and on the inventory, then comes back delivered and set up by the same crew.

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Fill in a few specifics on this page about what is moving, and our Chicago desk almost always emails one written flat figure back to you within the same business day.

Or call (888) 278-9005

The moment this reaches our Belmont Ave office in Chicago, you can count on a written rate landing back with you before that work day is done. Pricing the move falls on us and never costs you a cent, and hitting send leaves you free as ever — live with the figure however long you need, and the go-ahead waits entirely on you. The details you enter reach a single estimator drawing up your quote, and they stop right there at that desk.

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Short-Term and Between-Sale Storage

Moving dates around Chicago hardly ever fall into place the way you’d hope. The sale might close before the new place is move-in ready, or a buyer might push for a quick closing while you’re still weeks out. Storage exists to bridge exactly that gap: the full load goes in, kept secured and clean and dry, then comes back out on the day you give the word, the whole stretch riding on one written quote. You skip leasing a far-off unit, and you skip carrying everything more than once.

The Way It Runs

We load your home with the same attention any job gets, run it over to our storage, and keep it on padded, inventoried lots right through to your closing date. As soon as the new place becomes available, the very same crew pulls it back out and puts it where it goes. Not a thing on your side gets double-handled, and you’re spared the eleventh-hour hunt for a self-storage unit at the peak of the season.

What Chicago Families Store

  • A whole house put away in the stretch where a sale and its closing refuse to line up
  • Off-season holding for snowbirds headed to Florida or Arizona for the winter
  • The overflow while a rehab in Logan Square or Beverly gets finished
  • A staged home’s contents once the realtor needs the rooms emptied for showings
  • Seasonal furniture and the patio pieces that sit unused most of the year
Unit size Typical monthly
Small (studio load) $130 to $190
Medium (1 to 2 bed) $200 to $290
Large (3 bed and up) $300 to $360

Pair the storage with a move and you’ll often get the first month at half off.

Secured, Dry, and on the Inventory

Going in, each piece gets blanketed, wrapped, and logged on an inventory sheet, which leaves an exact record of everything stored. Tying the storage schedule to your closing date is Yolanda’s job, and she folds in your COI as well whenever a downtown building takes the delivery, which keeps the hand-off clean.

One Quote, Move Through Delivery

The load, the storage, and the delivery all combine into a single written figure, so once moving-in day finally comes around, nothing returns inflated. Whichever crew boxed up the three-flat is the same one drawing it out of storage and carrying it up the new stairs.

What's included

Book the job and these are the pieces our crew takes off your plate

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    An entire household held from a sale through to a closing when the two dates won't meet

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    A single W-2 crew on both the load-in and the delivery, so nothing gets double-handled on your end

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    Each piece blanketed, wrapped, and logged on an inventory sheet as it heads into storage

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    Secured, clean, dry lots under our own padding, not a self-storage unit you manage yourself

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    Winter holding for snowbirds bound for Florida or Arizona, plus the seasonal patio pieces

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    Overflow set aside while a rehab in Logan Square or Beverly gets wrapped up

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    Storage timing lined up with your closing, plus any downtown building COI on the delivery end

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    Move, storage, and delivery combined into one written figure, often with a break on the first month

Pricing we put in writing

What does this service typically cost to book?

By-the-Hour Crews

Starting from$120/hr

For that Chicago hourly figure you get two movers booked on a three-hour minimum, the truck parked right at your block, and the full kit unloaded with it — quilted pads, straps, ramps, dollies, and the runners that protect three-flat staircases, none of it left out. Because every one of those items already sits inside the rate you were quoted, your final bill stays clean: not one of them reappears later as a surprise add-on.

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Flat-Total Option

Agreed on and locked in before the crew shows up to load — the figure holds firm whether they finish by lunchtime or are still hauling boxes after sundown

Studio / 1-bedfrom $550
2-bedroomfrom $1,400
3-bedroom homefrom $2,400
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Recent moves

In the words of the Chicago families our crew packed up and carried out

Gina P.
Gina P. Lakeview · downtown high-rise condo with a COI
★★★★★

Fantastic work. The entire team has done a great job communicating and executing the move. Very happy with the service!

Google · 2026-05-02
Denise R.
Denise R. Avondale · downsizing from the family bungalow
★★★★★

Was very happy with my move. Marcus and DeShawn did a great job helping me today

Google · 2026-03-19
Latoya W.
Latoya W. Logan Square · three-flat walk-up in Logan Square
★★★★☆

Excellent! Marcus & crew were absolutely on top of it all!! We could not do it without them.

Google · 2026-05-24
Long-distance from Chicago

Long-haul lanes our drivers take well past the edge of Chicagoland

Putting Chicago behind you? Tap whichever destination fits and a dedicated page comes up for it, where the flat-rate tiers are listed openly, the driving hours our crew logs taking the load down the Dan Ryan and the highways beyond get broken out, and the precise US DOT and MC authority numbers lettered on the truck handling that haul are spelled out.

Chicago → Milwaukee

The trucks are ours and so is the US DOT authority lettered across their doors; the number is committed to writing and held fast before the wheels even roll off your curb, and whichever crew loads the truck in Chicago is the same crew unloading it once the drive is done.

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Chicago → Indianapolis

The trucks are ours and so is the US DOT authority lettered across their doors; the number is committed to writing and held fast before the wheels even roll off your curb, and whichever crew loads the truck in Chicago is the same crew unloading it once the drive is done.

Open the full lane →

Chicago → Tampa

The trucks are ours and so is the US DOT authority lettered across their doors; the number is committed to writing and held fast before the wheels even roll off your curb, and whichever crew loads the truck in Chicago is the same crew unloading it once the drive is done.

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Other jobs the Chicago crew handles

Need a different kind of move on the calendar?

Want our own movers handling the job? A free quote is where it begins.

Walk us through the work. Maybe a Chicago move means hauling boxes down two flights of three-flat stairs, maybe it is threading a piano through a tight Logan Square stairwell — whatever it takes, our W-2 crew carries it from the first box to the last, and the written rate does not budge along the way.

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Questions we hear a lot

What Chicago folks tend to ask before booking a move like this

What if my sale closes before the new place is ready?
That's the precise scenario this was made for. We load your home, keep the full load in clean, dry storage, and carry out the delivery as soon as the new place becomes available. The whole thing runs on one written quote, which means no double move and no frantic search for a self-storage unit.
What does storage run?
Plan on roughly $130 to $360 a month, scaled to how large your load is, and the first month often comes at half off when you book the storage alongside a move with us. Each month of storage is wrapped into the one written figure covering your move and delivery, leaving no surprise to catch you out.
Is my stuff secure and accounted for?
Absolutely. On its way into storage, every piece is blanketed, wrapped, and logged on an inventory sheet, then kept on secured, clean, dry lots. That leaves an exact record of what's held, and Yolanda schedules the delivery to land on your closing.
Do you hold things for snowbirds over winter?
Frequently, yes. Plenty of Chicago families take off for Florida or Arizona for the season and hand the household to us until spring. It stays clean and dry the whole time, and by the time you're back, it's returned and set up for you.