Senior Movers in Houston

55-plus downsizing, Hill Country & Gulf Coast coordination

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.

Houston has a lot of 55-plus moves for one reason: Texas estate taxes don’t exist, and the Hill Country and Gulf Coast retirement communities run a steady inbound from Memorial, River Oaks, Bellaire, and Sugar Land. 1st Choice Moving & Storage runs senior moves at a patient pace, not a stopwatch — with a box list, a donation drop, and family-call updates from Sarah on dispatch.

What a senior move looks like with us

  • Pre-move walkthrough with the family present
  • Box-list sort: keep, donate, ship-to-children
  • Donation drop to Houston Furniture Bank or Goodwill
  • Climate-controlled in-house storage for overlap days
  • Hill Country (Fredericksburg, Boerne, Kerrville) routing
  • Gulf Coast (Galveston, Rockport, Port Aransas) snowbird hold

Why patient pace matters

A 78-year-old leaving a Bellaire two-story she’s lived in since 1981 is not running a stopwatch move. We book a full day for what a 30-year-old would book a half-day for, label every box by destination room with large-print stickers, and let the family stop the load five times to look at one more photo album. That’s the job.

Coordination to retirement communities

Bryan calls the receiving community ahead — Querencia at Barton Creek, the Buckner Villas, the Stayton in San Antonio, the Sea Castle in Galveston — to schedule the unload window with their concierge desk and file COI with their property management. Sarah holds the family on the line through the move-day if requested.

Pricing the senior move

Same Texas rate: $179/hr hourly or flat figures by home size (1-bed $545, 2-bed $1,195, 3-bed $2,095). Storage at $185/month for overlap days at our Spring Branch facility. Family-call updates and donation-drop coordination are folded into the figure, not line-itemed. See full-pack, storage overlap, and long-distance senior runs.

Not included in the senior move flat

Estate-sale staging (we recommend a Heights estate-sale specialist), formal antique appraisal, and out-of-state probate-clearance moves require their own paperwork and price.

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