Why Gina Started First Place Moves
Gina Marchetti was raised on The Hill, and she broke into this line of work as a teenager, packing crews for an old St. Louis van line. The dispatch desk at one of the bigger county movers came later, and from that seat she watched what a careless job leaves behind: a family’s day in ruins, a deposit gone for good, a box of heirloom dishes reduced to shards. The grievances rhymed. A bait number floated only to win the signing. A clock that somehow lapped the quote. Movers who wandered off with half the truck still bare. A dresser shoved through a narrow Soulard door and chipped on the way through. Seeing it cycle like that wore on her, so in 2011 she went out on her own with one padded truck, a small crew paid a fair wage, and a sharp idea of the kind of mover she had long hoped would roll up to her own curb: a price fixed and named ahead of the first lift, the access studied and planned before anything moves, your home minded as though her own deposit hung on it. Years on, none of that has slipped. A Dutchtown studio or a Ladue estate gets the same people and the same bar, because the method runs the same way each time, every job aimed at first place. And the truck still loads tight, which generally spares your household a trip or two.
Every license and registration Missouri and Illinois ask of a mover, we keep current and renew well before any of it can lapse, and a booking never gets handed to some other company. Bring us in and the folks on your doorstep are in our colors, stepping down from trucks the company holds title to, owning each phase themselves: the wrapping, the lifting, the drive, and where every piece comes to rest at the end.
What A Move Looks Like With Us
What costs people sleep beforehand is everything they can’t yet know: whether the price stays put, whether a crew genuinely arrives, whether the dining set survives the trip. A written flat rate, scaled to your home settles the money worry, and a crew that works these streets day in and day out covers the rest. That figure tracks the size of the load, the bands stepping up from a studio through to a four-bedroom, with the labor, the dollies, the blankets, and the truck all wrapped in from the outset, so nothing springs on you once the ramp goes down.
- Company trucks, movers we employ — vetted, background-checked staff, no day-labor fill-ins, and no job ever passed to a stranger
- Licensed and covered top to bottom — in-state on Missouri Division of Motor Carrier Services authority, the Metro East on Illinois Commerce Commission authority, interstate work backed by US DOT and MC numbers
- $1M in cargo coverage per job, the household insured from the first box to the last
- Shaped around how this city really moves — access read in advance, certificate and freight-elevator towers handled, steep brick stoops and tight curb parking worked through, walk-ups managed, and the day timed against I-64, I-44, I-270, and a winter forecast that can ice over the path
Who Shows Up On Moving Day
Ring the office and chances are Gina herself answers, or one of us does, since this is a small St. Louis outfit rather than a phone bank two time zones off. Out on a job she still takes her turn under the heavy pieces, leaning on two trusted leads for the rest: one heads the apartment and brick-home work around town, the other owns the towers, the commercial jobs, and anything crossing the state line. Every crew member came up through her own training. Nobody scraped off a roster gets near what’s yours.
Boiled down, that’s the arrangement: a true St. Louis owner who learned the trade hauling furniture stands behind each job, the locked price stays put from the moment the first strap goes tight, and the crew on your stoop has these streets memorized. Look over what local families and businesses left on our reviews page, and with your dates set, request a free written estimate.