Moving Services in Houston

Six service lines, one Houston crew, one signed flat figure.

Your ZIPs land on Amanda’s desk at the Katy office — reviewed personally, no broker handoff, used only to price your Houston local move.

ProMover AMSA Certified
BBB Accredited A+ Rating
US DOT FMCSA Registered
State Licensed TX HHG Mover
IAM Member Intl. Movers Assn.
NJWMA Warehousemen Assn.

What we do in Houston

Six service lines under one roof at 1st Choice Moving & Storage, all run by the same Spring Branch crew, all priced on a signed flat figure. The hourly stays $179 when we work by the clock, the 1BR flat stays $545, and the warehouse at Long Point Rd stays open every business day for storage drop-offs.

  • Local Houston moves — inside the Loop, Beltway 8, and out to Katy / Sugar Land / The Woodlands
  • Long-distance from Houston — I-10, I-45, US-59 lanes to Austin, Dallas, New Orleans, beyond
  • Climate storage — 30,000 sqft off I-610, daily or monthly
  • Packing & unpacking — full or partial, materials included
  • Commercial & office — Energy Corridor and Med Center after-hours
  • Last-minute & emergency — one truck held back every Saturday

Which service goes with which crew chief

Service line Lead Typical neighborhood
Local residential Trent + Devin (split) Heights, Montrose, Bellaire, Memorial
Long-distance from Houston Devin Caldwell any Houston ZIP → out-of-state
Climate storage Kyle (warehouse) any closing-gap or PCS move
Packing & unpacking Bryan books, Trent leads River Oaks, Memorial, Bellaire
Commercial / corporate Trent Kowalski Energy Corridor, Galleria, Med Center
Last-minute / same-day Sarah dispatches anywhere in Harris County

Why the “& Storage” is the wedge

Most Houston movers either don’t store, or they sub-out to a PODS yard the customer never sees. We own the warehouse — 30,000 sqft on Long Point Rd, climate-controlled to 55% humidity, sprinklered, racked for both vault and pallet. Daily or monthly at $185/mo. Your boxes never leave 1st Choice hands between move dates.

This matters most for three recurring jobs: closing-gap holds when your new house isn’t ready, PCS military moves with a flexible hand-off date, and the estate-sale staging that comes with downsizing parents out of a Bellaire or West University house.

The Med Center and the Energy Corridor

Two of our service lines exist because Houston has two industries the rest of the country doesn’t at this scale: energy and medicine. Trent runs the ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP America, Halliburton transferee desk — Memorial Drive houses, I-10 West office towers, Energy Corridor townhouses. Devin and Sarah co-run the Med Center desk: MD Anderson, Memorial Hermann, Houston Methodist, Texas Children’s, Baylor, around the July 1st residency cycle.

  1. Walk-through with Bryan at the home end
  2. Hospital or campus access protocols logged with Amanda
  3. After-hours window scheduled with Sarah
  4. Trent or Devin runs the crew on the day

Browse the Houston neighborhood map, the long-distance routes, or get a signed flat figure.

What Sets Us Apart

Why Houston Households Stay With 1st Choice Moving & Storage

Licensing Closed Before Move Day

Fully licensed TX household-goods mover, DOT and MC authority filed for interstate work, $1M cargo coverage on every move — whether it’s a Memorial walk-up or a Katy-to-Vegas haul on I-15, every legal stack is closed before Trent’s crew rolls.

Old Floors, Plaster Walls, Estate Banisters

Original oak in a Heights Spanish, Italian travertine in a River Oaks foyer, painted plaster in a Bellaire bungalow — floor runners, jamb pads, banister shrink go on before a single box gets touched. Same protocol at both ends, pickup and drop.

24/7 Owner-Answered Dispatch

Call mid-afternoon and Kyle Bennett answers; call at 2am and Sarah Whittaker handles overnight dispatch from the Katy yard. Both Houston movers at your door are W-2, background-checked, and trained inside Pro Express Moving — never leased, never temp, never sourced same-day.

One Written Houston Price, No Curbside Surprises

The figure Bryan sends from the Sugar Land estimator desk is the same figure on your receipt — never an hourly clock that drags into sunset rush, never a fuel surcharge tacked on at the curb, never a heavy-item line the office never mentioned.

Four Lines, A Signed Flat Rate, And Kyle’s Countersign

Kyle pulls the calendar against the Greater Houston hitch-shifts and writes the binding figure on Long Point Rd letterhead, and the reply lands in your inbox — bilingual EN loads inside an hour, ES paperwork within two. No deposit, no chase calls if you walk.

See My Bilingual Flat Figure ☎ (888) 278-9005