Johnson County house move checklist

A Johnson County house move is still a local Kansas City job. The difference is usually the access: an HOA window, a gated drive, a long setback, or a street that looks fine until a 26-footer has to turn around on it. Overland Park, Olathe, Lenexa, Leawood and Shawnee all have their own version of that.

The Kansas suburb pages stay unpublished until Kansas intrastate authority is confirmed. That is a paperwork gate. For a price, use two ZIP codes on Get my price or ring (913) 957-9311. The live suburb write-ups are the Missouri ones on service areas.

What to have ready before you ask for a number

• Both ZIP codes, even if you already know the street names
• Size of the place — beds, or office, or a few items
• Which rooms you want packed and which you will do
• Stairs, no lift, or a long carry from the door to where the truck can sit
• Awkward items: piano, pool table, hot tub, safe, china cabinet
• Appliances that need disconnecting and hooking back up
• HOA rules, gate codes, and any hours the truck is allowed on the street
• Whether the driveway takes a big truck or the crew will carry from the curb

That list is the same shape as the quote form. Rough answers are fine. The walkthrough — in person, or photos and a video — confirms it. What those answers do to the money is in what changes the price.

The truck has to sit somewhere

Long driveways that will not take a 26-footer are common on the Kansas side. So are cul-de-sacs and visitor bays on town-home streets. If the truck sits on the road, that is a longer carry. If the HOA only allows loading between 9 and 4, that is a shorter day. Neither is a problem if we know before we quote.

We have done enough of these to plan around it rather than find out on the day. Same habit as the Missouri pages — Lee's Summit HOA windows, Blue Springs streets that look wide until you reverse down them. Johnson County is the same work with a different set of rules on the noticeboard.

HOA loading windows

Newer developments often want a certificate, a pad under the truck, or a two-hour slot. Get the rule in writing if you can. Send it with the photos. If the window is tight, we price the crew for that window instead of assuming an open Saturday.

Gated drives need a working code or someone on site. We will not sit in the turn lane guessing. Put that on the request the same way you would put a piano on it.

The house itself

Most of these jobs are houses and apartments — three and four beds, garages and basements included. Older ranches near Santa Fe Trail. Newer builds off 159th. Split-levels. Finished basements that were packed in 2009 and not opened since.

Downsizing is patient work. We will sort what goes and what does not with you. Apartments and town homes need lift bookings and loading bays sorted ahead of the day. Offices along College Boulevard and the 119th Street corridor are office moves, handled around your hours.

Packing on a Johnson County timeline

School-year dates and closing dates do not wait for you to finish the pantry. Pack the bedrooms yourself if you want. Leave the kitchen. Per-box prices: standard $10–20, wardrobe $25–30, dish pack $30–40. A typical kitchen is six or seven dish packs. The table lives on packing. The method is how to pack a kitchen.

Full packing is what takes a $1,200–$1,500 local move toward $3,000–$4,000. That is why we show the boxes. Do not leave the kitchen until the night before a 9am HOA slot.

Awkward items on the Kansas side

Leawood and the higher-end Overland Park streets are where the piano and the china cabinet show up together. That is not white-glove marketing. It is extra hands and more wrap. White glove is the same crew, more time, more padding.

Hot tubs need four to five crew and a path that will take them — side gate, slope, empty before we arrive. Say so on the form. A gun safe in a basement is the other heavy thing. Stairs change everything. See pianos and safes if that is your job.

Labour only, if you already have the truck

Some Johnson County moves are a friend with a truck and a house that still needs people who know how to load it. That is labour only. We do not bring our truck. We bring the crew. Stairs and awkward items still change how many people we send.

Week-by-week if you have a month

The order is the same as the four weeks before you move: book the date, decide packing, list the awkward items and the HOA rule, then empty the heavy drawers the week of. Weekends and month-end fill first. If you need us sooner, call and we will say what is free.

How we price a Kansas-side house

Two ZIP codes. Then the same questions as any other local job. We come back with a written price. Bigger jobs get a walkthrough first. The number we quote is the number you pay unless you add work on the day and agree it with us first.

I quote the jobs and I am on most of them. When you ring the number it is me — that is the about page. From [$XXX] an hour for two movers and a truck, once we know the access.

Start with the two ZIPs

Johnson County or Jackson County, the form is the same. Get my price or call (913) 957-9311. If it is a bit outside, we will tell you straight rather than string you along.