Smooth Move People

Smooth Move People, now Portland’s most reliable and affordable moving company, all started with one guy on a strawberry farm. His name is Greg. We’ll let him tell the rest of the story:

I started off as a musician, playing about six nights a week in bars and clubs all around the West Coast. I loved the music, but I was over the late hours. And the smoky bars.

I’d decided to move to my sister’s strawberry farm in Sandy, OR. I didn’t have much to my name, I was still pretty young, but I did have a truck (it was the one the band used to move our equipment).

I’d thought about doing deliveries, but I wasn’t sure if that’s what I wanted to be doing. I started scanning the nickel ads (this was back in the 80s, mind you), and saw someone asking for a mover. I gave him a call and introduced myself, told him about myself and, most importantly, that I’d never moved someone before.

“That’s fine!” he said. “When can you get here?”

When I showed up, it turned out the first person I moved…was this man’s mother.

Fortunately it all worked out okay. Actually it was better than okay, it was great. I started to get more business. People liked me – I had a good personality, I was efficient and I was professional. I’d always get compliments from the people I moved, so I kept doing it.

Over the next few years I kept buying trucks and working with more people. Eventually, I’d decided to buy a building and open up a moving company.

Turns out that was the smartest decision I ever made.

WHAT MAKES OUR MOVING SERVICES DIFFERENT
Here’s the difference between Smooth Move People and other moving companies: we own everything. The trucks, the building, all of it. That means we don’t have to pay monthly leases. It also means we can offer the lowest rates in the state.

We tell people that as soon as they call – we are the lowest rates moving company in all of Portland. They won’t believe us at first – they’ll shop around and try to find lower rates, but they’ll end up calling back. Those lower rates just don’t exist elsewhere as we are the lowest ODOT (Oregon Department of Transportation) rate in the state.

And that, along with our professionalism and efficiency, are why people call us time and time again.

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THE BEST RESIDENTIAL MOVING COMPANY IN PORTLAND – AND BEYOND!

When it comes time to choose a company that provides residential moving services, you’ll discover that you have a lot of options. Until you begin to dig a little deeper. That’s when you discover there’s only one residential moving company for you: Smooth Move People.

We’ve been home movers for a lot of years, so whether you’re moving in, moving out, or moving on up, our selection of residential moving services simply can’t be beaten.

And we haven’t even talked about our rates, which remain the lowest in Oregon. And we have the receipts to prove it.

Wherever life takes you, Smooth Move People is ready to carry your stuff.

SMOOTH MOVE PEOPLE: A LOCAL PORTLAND MOVING COMPANY
When you need a professional residential home mover in Portland, you don’t want a fly-by-night newcomer. You want a company that has earned its stripes — one that works to win your trust. You want a mover that’s been around the block a few times.

Since 1989, the smooth movers at Smooth Move People have been up, down, in, and out of nearly all the streets around the Rose City, including the ones that angle sharply upwards towards the treeline. (We’ve also been over the river and through the woods quite often.)

We move city folks to the coast, Portland residents to Vancouver and Seattle, and Northwesterners to points all across these United States.

Smooth Move People is a family-owned and operated Portland moving company, and we’re proud to say we take the worry out of local residential moving and long-distance residential moving.

We’ve compiled a few quick tips about our residential moving services:

GETTING A MOVE ON
Our professional movers offer reliable moving services for residential moves for both long-distance and local moves.

LOAD ‘EM UP, LOAD ‘EM OUT
We offer professional loading and unloading services in the Portland area, including putting things precisely where you want them and assembling them, as needed.

PACKING SERVICES AND SUPPLIES
Don’t be caught unprepared. When you work with Smooth Move People, we’ll bring our own packing supplies or use yours. Whatever works best for you!

WHY CHOOSE SMOOTH-MOVE PEOPLE AS YOUR MOVERS IN PORTLAND?
We’re good at what we do. We’ve carried wide beds up narrow stairwells, hefted hefty sofas into highrise condos, and safely transported everything from family heirlooms to sparkling new treasures.

Plus, we specialize in moving the following items, making us truly a one-stop shop for all your Portland moving needs:

Pianos: Leave the heavy lifting to us. A piano is huge, but it’s also a delicate instrument. Let Smooth Move People get your piano from Point A to Point B — or middle C, as the case may be.
Heavy lifting: Speaking of heavy lifting, we have a whole page dedicated to just that! And there’s a lot more to heavy equipment moving than simply picking the item up and dropping it off.
Decorative art: We take care of every item we move because all your items are special. But let’s face it, some items — like artwork, especially if it’s a family heirloom — are more special than others.
Fragile moving: Our goal is to provide you with peace of mind. Our moving services combined with our experience should do just that — even as we pack your most fragile items and move them to your new home.
From Sellwood to St. Johns, Laurelhurst to the Pearl, downtown to the West Hills, we’re the moving company that Portlanders trust.

Moving your business is a whole different ballgame than moving to a new house. There’s a lot of liability involved — for both your employees and your equipment. The last thing you want is a dropped computer monitor or an employee who strains his back lifting some heavy boxes.

That’s why you cut your risks and bring in Portland and Vancouver‘s professional commercial movers. Smooth Move People has been in the moving business for a long time now, serving local businesses as an office furniture moving company and as whole office relocation movers. This is, of course, in addition to our home moving services.

You can count on Smooth Move People to offer lower rates than anybody in the state, along with our standard-setting professionalism and efficiency.

What makes us different? For one thing: We own everything — our trucks, our building, all of it! That means we don’t have to pay monthly fees and leases to run our business. We can then pass those savings on to you!

Second of all, we mean it when we say we offer lower rates than anybody in the state. How? Because we’re the lowest Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) rate in the state.

So if you’ve been searching for office relocation movers or office furniture moving company, then you’ve come to the right place.

WE HANDLE SENSITIVE EQUIPMENT
If you’re like most businesses, you probably have your fair amount of “stuff.” This ranges from fancy espresso machines and decorative art on the walls to an electronic store’s supply worth of computer monitors, cables, connectors, telephones, and other assorted gadgets.

Plus, you certainly take precautions to safeguard sensitive information — things like files, customer data, company records, and anything else that needs to be kept confidential.

Smooth Move People understands the importance of protecting both the hardware and the software that makes up your business’ assets. So we know how to get that stuff in and out without causing a scratch. That means navigating through tight doorways, stairwells, and elevators — no matter how your building is set up.

DISASSEMBLING AND ASSEMBLING FURNITURE
Not all office desks fit through a doorway. In fact, not all office furniture can fit through every doorway. But no worries. The professional and courteous commercial movers at Smooth Move People have years of experience disassembling and reassembling office furniture. We’ll take your things apart and put it all back together again, good as new!

That’s right: We provide full-service disassembly and assembly. All you have to do is let us know where’d you’d like your office equipment set up in your new space.

Moving to a new office space is exciting — but it can also add a lot of stress on top of that which you already have running a business of your own. Smooth Move People works hard so you don’t have to. Just sit back, relax, and watch our top-notch office furniture moving company get to work.

BIG OFFICE? SMALL OFFICE? IT DOESN’T MATTER.
Smooth Move People can handle any size office as part of its work as office relocation movers. In our experience, most businesses fall under our capabilities for commercial moves. We own a fleet of vehicles and can send up to three large trucks — as well as a host of commercial movers — to get everything in one smooth (move) swoop. If it takes more than one trip, we’ll be sure to adjust the workload so that we get the job done in as few trips as possible.

We want to help you get your new office space up and running as soon as possible. And our team is made up of office relocation experts who know how to be quick, efficient, and safe.

Again, this is all about getting you back to work as quickly as possible.

LOWEST COMMERCIAL MOVING RATES
We invite you to shop around. But in our experience, people who phone us up to compare rates usually call us right back after they’ve made a few more phone calls. Our commercial moving rates in Portland, OR, and Vancouver, WA, simply can’t be matched.

In fact, we keep our moving rates as low as we legally can. We want to provide the most affordable service possible for fellow businesses who need commercial moving services in Portland and Vancouver.

SMOOTH MOVE PEOPLE
We’ve been in business for three decades. As a family-owned and family-operated business, we’ve built a reputation for being the most reliable commercial moving company in Oregon and Washington state.

If you’re ready to move, give us a call. Let us know what needs to be done, and we’ll get to talking. We’ll work with you to come up with a plan of action that gets your business to its new location before your customers know you’re gone!