How to ballpark your Cottonwood move
This page is a quick rough-cut, not a written quote. Use it to know roughly what to expect before you call the office or fill out the free quote form. For a binding flat rate signed by Colton or Marisol, we’ll need a five-minute walkthrough.
Local moves — hourly math
- 1 bedroom apartment, ground floor: 2 movers x 3-4 hours at $159/hr = roughly $477-$636.
- 2 bedroom apartment or small house: 2 movers x 4-5 hours at $159/hr = $636-$795, or 3 movers x 3-4 hours at $209/hr = $627-$836.
- 3 bedroom mesa-subdivision home: 3 movers x 5-6 hours at $209/hr = roughly $1,045-$1,254.
- 4 bedroom + Jerome switchback access: 3 movers x 7-8 hours at $209/hr = $1,463-$1,672, plus a shuttle-van fee if the street won’t take the full-size truck.
What the hourly rate already includes
Truck, blankets, dollies, shrink-wrap, drive time from our Old Town yard, the W-2 crew, and full uniform. No fuel surcharge, no travel fee, no surcharge for standard residential stairs.
Long-haul flat-rate ballparks (1-bedroom load)
- Flagstaff, AZ — $800-$1,150 (~60 mi)
- Phoenix, AZ — $950-$1,350 (~100 mi)
- Las Vegas, NV — $1,700-$2,400 (~250 mi)
- Los Angeles, CA — $2,600-$3,650 (~440 mi)
- Denver, CO — $3,100-$4,350 (~600 mi)
- San Francisco, CA — $3,600-$5,050 (~750 mi)
Specialty add-ons
- Upright piano — $175 flat, written on estimate
- Baby grand piano — $325 flat, written on estimate
- Gun safe (under 700 lb) — $150 flat
- Gun safe (700-1,200 lb) — $275 flat
- Jerome switchback shuttle van — $95 flat per shuttle leg
- Full-pack service — quoted by box count and time, added as a line item
What this page is not
This is not a binding written quote. Inventory, stairs, switchback access, dirt-road driveway distance, and monsoon-season timing all move the actual number around. Call the office or send us the free quote form and Marisol will write you a real flat rate the same day.
Treat the figures above as a back-of-the-envelope sanity check, not the signed number. Your real flat rate in writing hangs on the actual inventory, the switchback or driveway access at both ends, garage and stair clearance on a mesa-home walk-out, the Old Town loading window, and the corridor miles on the truck — a tidy Old Town one-bed and a four-bed Verde Santa Fe mesa home land in different tiers, and an I-17 push down to Phoenix prices nothing like a hop over to Sedona. For a locked figure on paper, send a few details and the North Desert Moving office writes it back quickly, usually inside the hour on a weekday.