A downsizing move bears on a family in ways no box count will ever show. A house holds a parent’s decades, the day arrives to move Mom into a smaller place or an assisted-living community, and the tough choices, what goes with her, what the kids hold onto, what is sold or donated, fall to grown children who never pictured themselves making the call. Tetris Moving has run these moves since Megan opened the company in 2015, and the crew arrives knowing the day carries a weight no scale would catch. We keep to the family’s pace, whether it runs from an Elkhorn house to a Gretna senior community, from a Dundee Tudor to a daughter’s place in Papillion, or into storage while everyone works out what stays.
What slows people is the deciding, not the lifting, and we move through it with no one hurried: which furniture truly suits the tighter floor plan, which pieces the kids want, what should head to an estate sale or a donation, and whether the rest ought to wait in storage while the rest is sorted out. We measure the new home ahead, so a treasured dresser is not hauled the length of the metro only to wedge at an assisted-living doorway. For anything donated or sold instead of kept, we arrange the drop, to a buyer, a relative, a charity pickup, so no one is juggling three trucks on a single hectic morning.
On the day each item earns the same care, the grandmother’s hutch and the worn recliner bound for charity alike. We pad and shrink-wrap the furniture, take apart and reassemble whatever calls for it at the new place, mark the boxes by room, and lay down floor runners. Many of these moves finish at an assisted-living building or care home, where the front office asks for proof of insurance, a held parking spot, and an elevator booked for the unload; we handle every bit of that directly with their staff, sparing the family the runaround. One crew runs the whole thing, first lift to last, with no new faces swapped in midway.
If the family needs things held while the house sells or the next place is chosen, the rest can wait in our short-term, climate-controlled storage until a date is set. Want the home boxed ahead so no one is packing a parent’s kitchen at the eleventh hour? Our full packing service handles that, on our truck with the very same crew from start to finish.
Tell us where things stand right now and where they have to end up, and we shape the whole plan around the family. Get a written quote and we will respond within one business hour.
What’s Included
- Patient help working out what fits the smaller floor plan, what the kids keep, and what is sold or given away
- The new home measured ahead, so a piece does not ride over only to jam at a door
- A grandmother's hutch and a worn recliner treated with the very same care and padding
- Furniture broken down where it must be and rebuilt at the new place
- The handoff set up with whoever receives it, a buyer, a relative, or a charity pickup
- We handle the senior-community paperwork: the COI, the held parking spot, and the reserved elevator window
- One crew over the whole job, with no new faces swapped in midway
- A spot in our climate-controlled storage whenever the sale or the next place hasn't closed yet
What Does It Cost?
Hourly or one flat price — a two-mover crew opens at $120/hr, with flat bands starting at $380
2-mover crew, truck, blankets & dollies included — with hourly at $120 / $160 / $210 or one locked flat rate by home size.
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