Local Moving in St. Louis, MO | First Place Moves

Ask Gina Marchetti what makes a St. Louis move run long and she won’t blame the drive across town. The mileage from Tower Grove to Webster Groves barely counts. What eats the hours is the carry at each end, and this metro hands a crew plenty of carries that punish anyone who didn’t plan them out. A brick two-family in Bevo Mill gives you a steep run of front steps and a turn at the landing. A Washington Avenue loft gives you a building office that guards its freight elevator and its move-in window like a vault. Gina grew up on The Hill, packed boxes for an old St. Louis van line, then ran dispatch and led crews for a big county outfit upwards of ten years before she started First Place Moves in 2011. By the time we pull up at your address, the chief has already pictured your stairs, the turn at the landing, and where the truck parks, and the team builds each load like a packed puzzle, so most homes ship out in fewer trips than you’d guessed.

You decide how the bill reads. Hourly, the crew size matches the job: a two-person team and a truck runs $115/hr, three movers $155/hr, four movers $205/hr, and the estimate names the headcount we’d assign. Want one number to plan against instead? The flat rate puts a studio in the $360 to $590 range, a one-bedroom at $590 to $980, two bedrooms at $980 to $1,660, three bedrooms at $1,660 to $2,780. Either way, the routine holds: Gina walks the steps, the elevator window, and the building’s rules early on, sets one rate in writing, and shuts the door on day-of surprises.

Where our crews load and unload

• City neighborhoods: Tower Grove, Shaw, Soulard, Lafayette Square, the Central West End, and the downtown lofts along Washington Avenue
• Inner-ring suburbs with old staircases and narrow drives: Clayton, University City, Maplewood, Webster Groves, Kirkwood, and the big homes of Ladue
• West county and St. Charles County subdivisions: Chesterfield, Ballwin, O’Fallon, and St. Charles, where the HOA rules get read in advance
• North county and the Metro East over the river: Florissant plus Belleville, Edwardsville, Granite City, and Alton in Illinois

What the morning looks like

Almost all of it happens before a doorbell rings. The chief decides where the truck can legally sit nearest your entry, because no one wants a 26-footer circling for a gap on a one-way brick street in Soulard at sunrise. Then we dress the home: quilted pads and shrink film over every piece, runners down both stretches of floor, casings and handrails padded snug. Heavy items get strapped, and the load is lashed down so nothing slides while we run I-64 or I-44. Bodies follow the difficulty, an added back or two when a walk-up has a long haul and zero driveway, a leaner crew for a first-floor unit off Gravois. Whatever is awkward about the parking, a pinched one-way, a permit zone, a snow-plowed curb come January, we sort it on paper ahead of time so the truck never holds the day hostage.

Headed past Missouri into another state, or out somewhere far beyond the metro? Those runs travel on our own DOT and MC authority, and the long-distance moving page covers the details. Want the drawers and shelves boxed before we show up? Hand the kitchen and the closets to our full-service packing crew and keep move day all about the lift. Request your free estimate and look for a reply within the next business hour.

What’s Included

• Crew sized to the job hourly: $115/hr for two movers, $155/hr for three, $205/hr for four
• Or one flat rate keyed to your bedroom count, running from a $360-$590 studio up to a $1,660-$2,780 three-bedroom
• A legal spot for the truck nailed down beforehand against one-way brick streets, permit zones, and plowed curbs
• Quilted pads, shrink film, and floor runners laid down at the old address and the new one alike
• Casings, front steps, and handrails padded before anyone picks up a box
• Each load stacked like a puzzle so the whole home clears in fewer trips and a smaller truck
• Loft COIs, freight-elevator windows, and staircase turns charted early so nothing derails the morning
• As much as $1M in cargo coverage, your rate set in writing before the wheels move