Every other trade on this site prices work at one address. Yours has two.
A moving office is a calendar of dates nobody can change. There are surveys to book, leases that all end on the same weekend, crews and trucks to put against each job, certificates of insurance to send to building managers, elevator reservations to confirm, deposits to take, and calls from people who want a number on a two-bedroom before anybody has walked through it.
A move also has two addresses, which is the whole of the difficulty, and it is worth naming early rather than burying it. A roof, a furnace, a driveway and a chimney all sit at the address the homeowner types in. A move has an origin and a destination, the gap between them is a large share of the price, and the quote form takes one postal code.
So this account decides two things out loud and never pretends otherwise. The ZIP the widget asks for is the address you load from, and the travel zone prices the one thing that ZIP genuinely decides — the deadhead run that gets a truck and three movers from your yard to her door before a single pad comes off. The distance to the other end is a declared mileage band on the form, and the help text tells her in her own words that you are asking because the form cannot work it out. That is the same move the plumbing page makes with urgency, and for the same reason: no hour of the day reaches the engine either, so the customer declares it.
NapkinPrice™ runs the demo mover as three services under one login. The local move asks ten questions and puts a range on the screen, a piano or a gun safe on its own gets a tighter band and no season at all, and anything crossing a state line goes down a third path that never guesses a price.
The last question asks whether she has a photo of the fullest room or of the stairs, and the lead says so, so you know to ask for them when you call her back. The pictures themselves reaching you with the lead is on the roadmap, so that list does not claim it.
The eight things that set a moving number
One count, five pick-ones, two yes/nos and a ZIP. Not one of them asks a homeowner for a cubic foot, because nobody outside this trade has ever estimated one. Each rate on the card is one you set in the dashboard and can change between one quote and the next.
How much there is to move
The base number, and a pick-one rather than a number box: a studio, a one-bedroom, a two-bedroom apartment or townhouse, a three-bedroom house, four bedrooms or bigger — $290, $455, $640, $980 and $1,420 on our own demo card. Asking for bedrooms as a NUMBER would be a bug rather than a style choice, and it is worth knowing why: the engine skips every pricing rule on a number question answered zero, correctly, so that "pack no rooms" costs nothing. A studio has zero bedrooms, so a studio would have priced at nothing at all. The studio is an option instead.
The miles between the two addresses
The declared band, and the answer to the whole problem on this trade. Same town under 10 miles, 10 to 25, 25 to 50, 50 to 100 and still one day — nothing, plus 10%, plus 22% and plus 45% on the demo. A percentage rather than a mileage fee, because drive time between the addresses is drive time for the whole crew: an extra half hour costs three times as much with three movers in the truck as it does with one, so a flat "$180 for the 25-to-50 band" would undercharge the big move and gouge the small one. Past 100 miles the question sends her to the long-distance service instead of guessing.
Access at the address you load from
Ground floor with the truck at the door, one flight, two or more flights with no elevator, or an elevator and a long carry — nothing, plus 10%, plus 22%, plus 14%. Stairs are what turn a short move into a long one, and they are labour rather than material, so they belong on a percentage. The help text does the teaching that matters: count from where the truck can actually stop, because fifty yards down the street is a long carry whatever floor she is on.
Access at the address you deliver to
The same four options, asked a second time, deliberately. The engine cannot take a second ADDRESS but it can perfectly well take answers ABOUT the second END, and carrying a sofa down two flights into a ground-floor house is a different day from the reverse. Averaging the two into one question would be wrong in both directions and a customer cannot honestly answer it anyway. If she has not been given the keys yet, the help text says to answer for what she was shown.
Rooms packed
The only genuinely per-unit line on the service: her room count times your rate, $135 a room on the demo. Leave it at 0 if she is packing her own boxes, and answering 0 fires nothing at all. The demo's help text asks her to count the kitchen as two, since it is glass, heavy and slow to pack, and a garage full of tools as two more. This is also the one answer the mileage band should not be touching, and the section below measures exactly how much of the midpoint that costs rather than glossing it.
Anything over 300 pounds
A treadmill or a gun safe under 600 lb, an upright piano, or a grand piano, pool table or safe over 600 lb — $210, $425 and $850 on the demo. These are flat amounts, which means added ONCE for the job and not once per item, so a house with two uprights is trued up on the survey. Say that in the help text rather than letting her find out. A pool table has to come apart and the slate travels separately, which is most of why it is on the list at all.
A Saturday, or the turn of a month
The question the engine cannot ask itself. A seasonal date range is the only calendar the engine has and it works in months and days — there is no day of the week and no first-of-the-month anywhere in it. Those are the days the demo prices highest, so they are one yes/no the customer declares, plus 15% on the demo. Same discipline as the mileage band, same reason. The help text turns it into advice worth more than a discount: a Wednesday in the middle of a month is the cheapest move she will ever buy.
Travel zone
On this trade and no other, the zone is the DEADHEAD: what it costs to get an empty truck to the address you load from, before the job starts. The demo yard in Charles Town charges nothing to load in Charles Town, Harpers Ferry, Shepherdstown or Martinsburg, $140 in Leesburg, Ashburn, Manassas or Winchester, $165 over the Potomac in Frederick or Hagerstown, $285 down in Fairfax, Arlington, Alexandria or Woodbridge, and 6% plus $425 anywhere else. Zones are three-digit prefixes or whole ZIPs, the most specific match wins, and one marked out of area gives her no price while her details still reach you.
A real move, start to finish
The demo’s local move asks these ten, in this order, here for a two-bedroom apartment in Charles Town going eighteen miles to a house outside Martinsburg: a second-floor walk-up at the pick-up, a long carry across a turning circle at the delivery, her own boxes packed by her, on a Tuesday in the middle of the month. The live engine priced the answers, outside its summer season; the total was not typed into this page.
| # | What she is asked | What she answers | What it does to the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How much is there to move? | A two-bedroom apartment or townhouse | $640, added once for the job. A studio is $290, four bedrooms $1,420 |
| 2 | How far apart are the two addresses? | 10 to 25 miles | +10% on every line of the move. The 50-to-100 band is +45% |
| 3 | At the address we are LOADING from, how do we get to the truck? | Two or more flights, no elevator | +22% for the stairs, added to the mileage band |
| 4 | At the address we are DELIVERING to, how do we get in? | An elevator, or a long carry to the door | +14%, added into the same pool as the stairs |
| 5 | How many rooms do you want us to pack for you? | 0 | Nothing. Each room is $135 — the only line here that multiplies |
| 6 | Is there anything over 300 pounds? | No, nothing unusual | Nothing. An upright piano is a flat $425 for the job |
| 7 | Is the move on a Saturday, or the first or last two days of a month? | No | Nothing. Yes is +15% on the whole job |
| 8 | Does either building need a reserved elevator and a certificate of insurance? | No | Nothing. Yes would leave the dollars alone and set a $1,150 floor |
| 9 | Is there anything to take apart and put back together? | No | Nothing. Yes adds a flat $145 and the tools come with us |
| 10 | Got a photo of the fullest room, or of the stairs? | Offered | Nothing; it flags that she has pictures for you |
| The arithmetic, in the order the engine runs it | $165 drive out + $640 two-bedroom = $805, then the three percentage answers pool into one and +46% applies once to all of it → $1,175.30 | ||
| She sees | $1,034 – $1,316 | ||
| What lands in your inbox, the second she submits | Her name and mobile, the ZIP she loads from, her ten answers and whether she has photos | ||
The $165, the $640, the $135 and the percentages above are the demo company’s, and you set your own in the dashboard; the demo’s were chosen as if three movers and a truck cost about $170 an hour for six or seven hours, plus the drive out. Two seams in that arithmetic are worth knowing. The percentages pool rather than compound, so plus 10, plus 22 and plus 14 make plus 46 and not the plus 52.6 you would get by multiplying them out. And the pooled figure lands on the whole additive subtotal, base fee included, so the mileage band marks up the drive out as well — which is right, because a longer haul genuinely is more truck time. Where it is not right is packing, and the next section measures that rather than asserting it. The total is the engine’s own: $1,034 to $1,316 for those ten answers outside the moving season, and the demo gives you the same in about a minute.
Our example moving company has a website of its own, and NapkinPrice quotes there live from the real engine, on a page that is not ours. Give it the Charles Town two-bedroom and you get the same bracket.
Try the live demo site (opens in a new tab)A move has two addresses. The form takes one, and this page says which.
Two addresses and a form that takes one ZIP: this is how the demo settles it, in plain words, with the seam it leaves measured rather than hidden.
Here is exactly what the engine has. The widget collects one postal code, once, and that ZIP does a single thing: it picks the travel zone whose longest listed prefix matches, falling back to your catch-all. There is no question type that takes an address, no rule that could hold a route, and nothing anywhere in the platform that looks up a distance between two points. Pretending otherwise would be the one dishonest number on the account, so the fixture makes two decisions instead.
First: the ZIP is the origin. It is the address you load from, and the zone prices the deadhead — the empty truck and the three movers driving out before the job starts. Every zone name and every piece of help text on the demo says “we load from” or “pick up” and never “your address”, because on this trade those are two different places. You can watch it isolated: hold the ten answers above completely still and change nothing but the ZIP. Leesburg is $1,157 – $1,473, Frederick in Maryland is $1,179 – $1,501, Arlington is $1,285 – $1,636, and anything outside the listed prefixes falls to the catch-all at $1,470 – $1,871 — Columbia in Maryland and a ZIP in Texas return the identical figure, which is the clearest possible proof that the number is about your yard and not about her route. A ZIP outside every zone you serve gets no price at all, a polite decline, with the lead still captured.
Second: the distance is declared, not looked up. It is a dropdown of mileage bands on both priced services, and its help text tells her you are asking because the form cannot work it out. That is not a workaround dressed up; it is the same shape as urgency on a plumbing form. The bands carry a percentage rather than a fee for a reason worth copying: an hour of drive time is an hour for the whole crew, so it costs three times as much on a four-bedroom house as on a studio. And the bands bite harder on the single-item service — 0, 12, 30 and 60 per cent against 0, 10, 22 and 45 — because on a half-day job the driving genuinely is the job.
The third decision is where this account spends its cleverness, and it comes with a measurement rather than a claim. The engine cannot take a second address, but it can take answers about the second end, so stairs and carries are two questions rather than one averaged guess. Now swap them: take the ten answers above, move the long carry to the pick-up and the two flights to the delivery, and the quote comes back $1,034 – $1,316, identical, because the engine pools every percent and plus 22 then plus 14 is the same as plus 14 then plus 22. So the pair is not there to price the ends differently. It is there because a customer cannot honestly answer one question about two buildings, and because your dispatcher needs to know which end has the staircase. Flatten the pick-up to a ground floor and the same move is $878 – $1,118; flatten both ends and it is $779 – $992, which isolates the mileage band on its own.
And the seam that section does not paper over. A pooled percent lands on the whole additive subtotal, packing included, so the mileage band marks up the packing labour — and packing a kitchen takes the same two hours whether the new house is two miles away or forty. Measure it instead of arguing about it: four rooms packed on those same answers is $1,728 – $2,199, and dropping the mileage band alone to same-town pulls the midpoint from $1,963.70 to $1,829.20, of which about $54 is the band landing on the $540 of packing it has no business touching. The stairs bands arguably should reach it, because carrying packed cartons down two flights really is harder. The miles should not. The packing question’s help text says the rate is figured across the job rather than pretending otherwise, and the estimator trues it up.
Local move, house or apartment — quotes instantly
The work this business sells, and the service on which the two-address gap had to be solved rather than dodged. The drive out from the yard lives in the base fee — $165 on the demo — so it is added once however big the move is and cannot be answered around. Strip everything back to the rate on its own, a two-bedroom going across town with ground floors and the truck at the door at both ends, and you see it with no percentages at all: $708 to $902, a midpoint of exactly $165 plus $640. The smallest thing it will quote is a studio on the same terms, $400 to $510; the biggest plain one is a three-bedroom house, $1,008 to $1,282, and those two sit near the ends of the $250 to $1,500 HomeAdvisor gives for a one- to three-bedroom local move (June 2026). Put the three-bedroom on the worked example above and it is $1,471 to $1,872. One answer lifts the floor without adding a dollar: a building wanting a reserved elevator and a certificate of insurance raises the job minimum to $1,150, so a studio across town that answers yes, whose arithmetic is $455, quotes at $1,150 to $1,288 — the low end IS the floor rather than 12% under it. And there is a ceiling: a four-bedroom going 50 to 100 miles with two flights, a long carry, six rooms packed, a grand piano, on a Saturday, with furniture to dismantle, reaches $5,847 to $7,442, just inside the $7,500 past which the widget stops pricing and hands you the lead.
One heavy item, or a few pieces — quotes instantly
The work that pays the light bill between household moves: one piano, one safe, a sofa somebody bought on Marketplace, a storage unit emptied. Its own $115 roll-out for two movers and a truck, its own $215 minimum, and a band of plus or minus 10% — TIGHTER than the household service on purpose, because a known number of known pieces is a known day where a house is however much is actually in the attic. An upright piano, one piece, twelve miles, ground floor out and one flight down into a basement, quotes at $523 to $640. One appliance across town with no stairs is $223 to $273; six pieces twelve miles away with a flight of stairs is $461 to $563; the same piano out of a two-flight walk-up with a door to take off is $843 to $1,030. The cheapest answer set possible floors at $215 to $237 rather than at its arithmetic. Its ceiling is $1,800, deliberately low: a grand piano plus eight pieces, 50 to 100 miles, two flights at both ends and a door off works out at $2,895.70 and routes, because at that point it is a household move and the other service prices it properly.
Long-distance, out-of-state and storage — site visit, never priced
Site-visit mode captures the whole spec and shows no number at all, which is the only honest answer to an interstate move. It is priced on the weight that actually goes on the truck and the real road miles between two addresses, and a form has neither. The service still asks where it is going, roughly how big the house is, whether the dates line up or it has to sit in storage, and whether a car is going as well — and not one of those answers moves money. The question worth copying is the mileage one: it carries NO pricing rule at all, and its help text says out loud that the answer changes nothing she is quoted and is only there to decide whether somebody comes out this week or next. In place of a figure she reads that you like to see a move like hers first, and you get a lead worth a survey. This page never prints an engine figure for a long-distance move, because the fixture cannot compute one.
One service carries the moving season. The other refuses it, and that is the harder decision.
Moving has the sharpest calendar of any trade on this site and it is not about the weather, which is exactly what makes it worth having. Leases turn over on the first of the month, the school year ends in June, and from the middle of May to the week after Labor Day the demo company’s trucks and crews are spoken for. That is a dated, physical capacity constraint on scheduled work, which is the one thing a seasonal percentage can price honestly — the same test the gutter page applied to leaf fall and the chimney page to the first fire of the year. So the household service carries plus 14% from 15 May to 10 September, the disclaimer says out loud that it is a scheduling signal rather than a surcharge and that it comes off again on 11 September, and the same two-bedroom in October is 14% less because in October there is a truck. The worked example above comes back $1,179 – $1,501 when she asks in the middle of June, and the bare rate goes from $708 – $902 to $808 – $1,028.
The single-item service carries no season at all, and that is a decision rather than an empty field. Nobody schedules a piano around a lease. That work is steady every month of the year, and charging 14% more for it in July because other people are moving house would be a surcharge dressed up as a season. Run the piano job in the middle of June and it is still $523 – $640, to the dollar, and its disclaimer says so in words.
One consequence is worth watching once, because it is the engine behaving correctly in a way that surprises people. The ceiling is tested on the FINAL midpoint, after the season and the travel zone have both landed — so the biggest quotable move above, the one that comes back $5,847 to $7,442 in September, runs the identical answers in June at a midpoint of $7,574.62 and routes to you instead of pricing. One answer set, two months, and the widget does the right thing in both. Both priced services carry a base fee and a minimum, $165 and $395 for a household move and $115 and $215 for a single item, and that is what let them go live: a service with neither could show her $0.
In June the phone rings all day and both hands are under a sofa
There is nowhere in this trade where answering a phone is a judgment call. You are on a staircase with a dresser, you are backing a 26-footer into a courtyard, or you are three hours into a day that has to finish before the building’s loading dock closes at six. Only 52% of callers to home-service businesses speak with a person (Invoca, 2026 (opens in a new tab)), and fewer than 3% of callers sent to voicemail leave a message (Invoca, 2024 (opens in a new tab)). A caller who cannot reach you calls the next name on the list. In the summer weeks when your own trucks are booked out, the calls you miss decide how much of the next month you keep.
| What a missed moving call is worth | On the demo account |
|---|---|
| A two-bedroom, eighteen miles, stairs at one end and a carry at the other | $1,034 – $1,316 |
| The same move out of a three-bedroom house | $1,471 – $1,872 |
| The same move with four rooms packed for her | $1,728 – $2,199 |
| One upright piano, twelve miles, one flight down | $523 – $640 |
| Callers sent to voicemail who leave a message | Under 3% (Invoca, 2024 (opens in a new tab)) |
| One recovered two-bedroom pays for | 5 months of the bundle |
| One recovered piano pays for | 2 months |
Once texting is switched on, CallMitt™ answers the call you missed with a text that names your company, which a text-back must do before it can be saved, and her reply sits on one thread with her quote. The message is picked by the hour and the day, against the hours you actually keep — the demo yard runs 7 to 7, the longest window on the site and a mover’s day rather than a copy of anybody else’s. The phone starts at seven because people ring about a Saturday before they leave for work, and it runs to seven because in June a crew that started at eight is still carrying beds up a staircase at half past six. A 7:30 PM call honestly gets the after-hours version instead of one claiming somebody is on a truck.
Straight about where this stands. Nothing on this platform delivers a text message yet: there is no SMS gateway and no carrier registration, so today you log the missed call and the reply waits in your outbox, where one held more than an hour is retired, never sent. Already running: your five messages, the 7-to-7 hours, the weekend, holiday and vacation messages, quiet hours, opt-outs, and the thread her reply joins.
How CallMitt Works Run Your Own NumbersA mover is hired on one question, and it is about a staircase in July
The job is seventy-five pounds up and down stairs all day, in the heat, for eight hours, and a man who finds that out at eleven o’clock on his first morning has cost you the move and the customer with it. Plenty of people will tell you they are fine with it in a January interview. Asking it in the words the day actually uses — and asking it before you give up an afternoon — is the whole of the screen.
Put “Now hiring — text CREW to your texting number” on both sides of the box truck. CrewFunnel™ asks seven short questions: is he 18 or older, is he up for carrying seventy-five pounds up stairs all day in July, how far out does he live, does he hold a licence and can he drive a 26-foot box truck, how many years has he worked on a moving crew, can he start inside two weeks, and what was the last job he worked on. Three of those are knockouts and three come back as a weighted fit score, years on a crew heaviest and the start date next.
The demo job makes three scoring choices, and one of them disagrees with another page on this site on purpose. The miles only knock out, more than 35 from Charles Town, because a weighted number would rank the man who lives furthest away highest. The last-job question is free text with no weight, since any answer at all would score full marks there. And the box-truck license is scored rather than a knockout, where the gutter page knocks out on it because the trailer goes with the crew. A truck needs one driver and the helpers need no license at all, so a knockout would turn away the helpers you are hiring; here it carries a weight instead, worth having rather than a gate. Which is right depends on the trade, and writing the reason down is the point.
Until your carrier registration clears he applies on your screening page instead of by text, to the same seven questions, the same three knockouts and the same score; from that day the keyword on the truck takes his application by text.
See how CrewFunnel works
The review is written on the floor of the new place, the night the truck leaves
The last box is in, the beds are put together, the truck has pulled away, and the family is sitting on the living-room floor eating out of a bag because nobody can find the plates. Nothing is broken and nobody is crying. That is the night she would write you a review. By the time the boxes are unpacked the move is a week she would rather forget, and your crew went with it. The mover with sixty reviews does not carry sofas sixty times better than you; somebody there asks every customer, the night the truck leaves.
HurraBell™ does the asking. Once review requests are switched on, you mark the job done — from the inbox, from your phone, or from your job software through Zapier — and the customer gets one request in your words, with your own Google review link, after a delay you pick: an hour, unless you change it. Three days later, one email reminder, unless the link has been opened or the customer has since texted you, messaged you from your website or had a call logged on her thread.
Review requests aren’t switched on for new accounts yet. When they are, the request goes by email once your Google review link is saved on the HurraBell page and your mailing address on the Account page. A text goes as well where the customer ticked the box on your quote form or visit booking agreeing to a review-request text, and only once your carrier registration clears, the same wait as every text on this site; until then it is email only.
See how HurraBell worksOne recovered two-bedroom covers 5 months
And a single piano moved across town covers 2 of them. In a trade where a caller who cannot reach you calls the next name, that is the arithmetic that matters.
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Moving questions we get asked
By being honest about which one it takes and asking her for the rest. The ZIP is the address you LOAD from, and it decides one thing: the travel zone, which prices the empty truck getting to her before the job starts. The gap to the other end is a dropdown of mileage bands she answers herself, and the help text says in her own words that you are asking because the form cannot work it out. Nothing on the account implies a lookup — there is no per-mile rate anywhere in it, and the long-distance service’s mileage question carries no pricing rule at all and says so. What you get out is a real bracket on a real job: $1,034 to $1,316 for a two-bedroom going eighteen miles with a walk-up at one end, which is a number you would say on the phone.
Because the engine cannot, and shipping a form that looked like it could would be worse than a dropdown. There is no question type that takes an address, no rule that holds a route, and no distance lookup anywhere in the platform. A declared band is the same answer the plumbing demo gives for urgency: no hour of the day reaches the engine either, so the customer declares whether she needs somebody today or next week and the answer carries a percentage. Declared beats invented. It is also worth saying that she knows the answer — she has driven it, or she has looked at a map before signing a lease — and a rough band is all a range needs.
Because a move has two staircases and a customer cannot honestly answer one averaged question about two different buildings. Carrying a sofa down two flights into a ground-floor house is a different day from the reverse. Here is the part worth knowing before you copy it: because the engine pools every percentage into one figure, swapping the two answers gives an IDENTICAL quote — the worked example above is $1,034 to $1,316 either way round. So the pair is not there to price the ends asymmetrically. It is there for answerable accuracy and for dispatch: your crew leader wants to know which end has the stairs before the truck leaves, and that is worth a second dropdown on its own.
No, and the account says so on the question rather than guessing. An interstate move is priced on the weight that actually goes on the truck and the real road miles between two addresses, and a form has neither. So anything over about a hundred miles is a third service in site-visit mode: it captures where it is going, roughly how big the house is, whether the dates line up or it needs storage in between, and whether a car is going as well, and it shows no number at all. Its road-mileage question carries no pricing rule and its help text says the answer changes nothing she is quoted — it only decides whether an estimator comes out this week or next. That is the same discipline the chimney demo keeps for a reline and the masonry demo for natural stone: the engine has five kinds of pricing rule and none of them can carry a job whose cost lives on a scale ticket nobody has weighed yet.
That is a whole service, and it is the second one on the account. Its own $115 roll-out for two movers and a truck, its own $215 minimum, a tighter band of plus or minus 10% because a known number of known pieces is a known day, and its own mileage bands which bite harder than the household ones — 0, 12, 30 and 60 per cent — because on a half-day job the driving is the job. An upright, one piece, twelve miles, ground floor out and one flight down into a basement is $523 to $640; the same piano out of a second-floor walk-up with a door to take off is $843 to $1,030. On a full household move the heavy item is a flat amount instead, $425 for an upright — and flat means once for the job, so a house with two uprights is trued up on the survey and the help text says so.
It would be, if the season were weather. This one is a calendar and a capacity problem: leases turn on the first, the school year ends in June, and from mid-May to the week after Labor Day the demo company’s trucks and crews are spoken for. So the plus 14% is a scheduling signal, the disclaimer says both halves out loud including the date it comes off, and the same two-bedroom in October is 14% less because in October there is a truck. The part worth copying is where the season is NOT. The single-item service carries none at all, because nobody schedules a piano around a lease and charging 14% more for one in July would be a surcharge dressed up as a season. Run it in June and it is still $523 to $640. Leaving the season field empty is a choice the dashboard lets you make.
Only if she says so, because the engine knows no day of the week and no end of the month. The demo asks one yes/no: is the move on a Saturday, or on the first or last two days of a month? Yes adds 15% to the whole job, so the Charles Town two-bedroom above goes from $1,034 to $1,316 to $1,141 to $1,452. The help text adds that a Wednesday in the middle of a month is the cheapest move she can buy, if her dates can move.
Not on the form, and this is a seam worth knowing. The engine reads the date on your own calendar on the day she asks, not the day she moves, so the two-bedroom above asked for on 15 April is $1,034 to $1,316 and the same answers on 15 June are $1,179 to $1,501. The demo's disclaimer says the season adds 14% from 15 May to 10 September, so an early asker for a summer date is trued up at the survey. If that is not how you want it, say so in your own disclaimer.
It raises the floor rather than adding a fee. The demo asks whether either address is a building that needs a reserved elevator and a certificate of insurance, and the help text says why: paperwork days ahead and a hard stop on the day turn a half-day job into a whole one. Yes raises the job minimum to $1,150. A studio across town with the truck at the door is $400 to $510; the same studio out of such a building is $1,150 to $1,288.
About fifteen minutes for your text-back messages and your working hours, and about an hour to write the ten local-move questions and load one rate card: your home-size amounts, your mileage bands, your two access bands, your per-room packing rate, your heavy-item amounts and your travel zones. Then half an hour for the single-item service, with its own roll-out, minimum and tighter band, and ten minutes for the long-distance service, which prices nothing and needs no rates. Neither priced service goes live without a base fee or a minimum, and once review requests are switched on for your account, add a minute to paste your Google review link on the HurraBell page and your mailing address on the Account page. You pay $199 a month for all four tools, with no onboarding call, no setup fee and no contract.
Clearing the house out before the truck comes? The junk removal page covers that, the trade pages list the rest, and for anything else, ask us.
Give her the number before she rings the next mover.
Put your home-size rates in tonight. The first 30 days are free, with no card and no setup fee, and you cancel from the dashboard.