Most of what Garden City Movers books never leaves Missoula County. Owner Levi Hartman grew up off Rattlesnake Drive, paid his way through the University of Montana loading furniture for a Higgins Avenue shop, and put what he learned there into the company he started in 2012. A single weekday for our crew can run from a Slant Streets rental near campus to an Orchard Homes place with a garden out back, then up the grade into Grant Creek by late afternoon. None of those addresses get a mileage line tacked on, because we are based here too, with the yard sitting off Reserve. Hometown rates, hometown hands, no fine print stretching the bill.
The hourly figure already covers a lot before anyone touches a box. We send the truck out stocked, blankets and wrap and dollies and straps loaded the night before, so a gusty run up US-93 over Evaro Hill never shakes a load loose. Every mover on that truck is a Garden City employee, paid on a W-2, cleared through a background check, in our shirt. Furniture that has to break down gets broken down and rebuilt at the new place, corners blanketed in between. And because Levi cut his teeth on instruments, a piano coming down a tight stairwell is handled by people who do that for a living, with the charge written plainly into the quote rather than tacked onto your running hours.
What a Garden City crew does on Missoula moving day
Before the first lift, the lead studies both ends of the move, drops runners on the floors, and felts the door tracks. Then the weather decides the rest. Spring squalls roll in without much warning, and by late summer the whole valley hazes over with wildfire smoke, so anything that suffers from damp or grit gets sheeted. Hillside driveways in the Rattlesnake and Grant Creek can ice over or run steep, which is its own art in the snow. If your place sits behind a gate out toward the Wye, just give us the code when you book and the crew rolls straight in.
Items the hourly rate does not include
A handful of things stay off the meter, and we would rather name them now than at the curb. Cross the Montana state line and you move into our long-distance pricing instead. Federal regulations forbid propane, fuel cans, opened paint, solvents, and ammunition on the truck, so those travel with you, as do pets and any houseplants. A piano headed down stairs or a loaded gun safe is quoted on its own written line before the date locks, so it never inflates the hourly tally by surprise.
Local pricing
Two ways to pay, your choice. On the clock, truck and equipment included, it is $125/hr for two movers, $170/hr for three, and $220/hr for four. Prefer a number that does not move? We walk the place, write a flat rate, and that rate holds whether or not Reserve backs up at the Brooks light during the five o’clock crunch. To set expectations, flat figures by home size run roughly a studio $380–$600, a one-bedroom $600–$980, a two-bedroom $980–$1,650, a three-bedroom $1,650–$2,750, and a four-bedroom $2,650–$4,200. Every load is backed by $1M in coverage.
For a same-day number, call (888) 711-4778, or text us both addresses with your date and we will put the figure in writing.
What Our Garden City Crew Brings
- A truck stocked the night before with blankets, wrap, dollies, and straps from our Reserve Street yard
- Two, three, or four Garden City employees on the job, each W-2 and background-cleared
- Furniture broken down at the start of the day and rebuilt at your new Missoula address
- Instrument-trained hands for any piano coming down a tight Rattlesnake stairwell
- Runner mats on the floors and felt on the door tracks at both ends of the move
- Your pick of a running meter or a flat figure Levi writes down before the date locks
- Every load standing behind $1M in coverage
What You’ll Pay
Local crews from $125/hr — or a flat written rate
A two-mover Garden City crew, the truck, blankets, and dollies, all in.
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