The gap between an Austin move-out and move-in
The most common storage question by far is the timing gap: the lease on your downtown unit runs out before the keys to the next place land. Your load sits locked in a vault at our Burnet Rd yard, pulled out on the first date and redelivered whenever you call — whether that is days or months down the line.
We bill per vaulted crate: figure roughly one for a one-bed, a pair for a two-bed, and three for a three-bed. A crate runs $160 a month, and when we also handle the load-in and the delivery your first two weeks are free. Everything under our roof carries the sixty-cent-a-pound baseline plus a full-value option to $1,000,000.
Sample storage costs
| Scenario | Vault crates | Monthly cost |
|---|---|---|
| Single-bedroom, quick bridge | 1 crate | $160 |
| Two-bed condo between leases | 2 crates | $320 |
| Three-bed home, sale to sale | 3 crates | $480 |
| Four- to five-bed, long hold | 4–5 crates | $640 – $800 |
| Relocation or seasonal stash | 2–3 crates | $320 – $480 |
Loading the crates in and pulling them back out is priced as a flat, worked off our usual rates — $155/hr for two movers, $205/hr for three — and quoted before we touch the first box. Anything we store and move keeps a claim window open for the full nine months.
Where a self-storage detour quietly costs more
Handle it yourself and the labor tab lands twice: one crew to pack a rented bay clear across town, then a second weeks on to clear it out again. Book storage through us and a single crew crates it all once, keeps it dry under our roof, then runs that very load straight to your next door when you are ready. Bundle it with a residential or long-distance job and the same team handles pickup and delivery.
What your Austin, TX flat rate already covers
- Indoor, roofed vault space at our own Austin warehouse on Burnet Rd
- Book the move both directions and your first two weeks of storage are free
- Each crate is sealed and inventoried, held on its own rather than piled in a shared bin
- Everything moves on pallet jacks — nothing dragged across the warehouse floor
- Once the new place is ready, redelivery goes out at the same flat rate
- Racked bays hold pianos and safes as well, insured up to $1,000,000
So what does it come to?
Two movers and the truck come in at $155/hr once the clock starts — or pin it down with a single signed Austin flat rate that lays the whole job out on one page
That number already covers your moving blankets, hand trucks, rolls of shrink-wrap and the slow, careful carries a South Congress condo or an East Austin walk-up demands — plus any building COI a downtown high-rise or an HOA out in the suburbs wants on file ahead of load-day. Bring a third mover onto the job and the hourly ticks up to $205.
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