Alexandria, DC · Service area

Alexandria Movers | Motivated Moving Solutions

An insured Motivated Moving Solutions crew covers Alexandria week after week, on a single written flat rate with nothing tacked on afterward.

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15 yrs
moving Washington DC families
★ 4.9 / 5
from 28 verified reviews
US DOT/MC
licensed, bonded, and fully insured
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Our crews already know the streets and parking around your block.
2 An estimate inside the week
In writing, fixed at one rate, and dialed in to your part of town.
3 We take the whole move
The rate already includes the truck, the moving blankets, the dollies, and the crew.

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Old Town Rowhouses and King Street Condos, Moved by a Crew That Respects the Cobblestones

Old Town Alexandria handles unlike anywhere else in the metro. Cobblestone underfoot, rowhouses that are slim walk-ups with staircases pivoting hard at the landing, King Street high-rises that demand their paperwork settled before you ever see the elevator. I’m Marcus Whitfield, and since 2011 my company has worked this stretch with a crew on payroll and 26-ft box trucks I own. Everything at your door is ours — Virginia, Maryland, and DC operating authority, federal US DOT and MC registration, $1M of cargo coverage on the load. Pick up the first box and the price is already pinned as one flat figure.

Slim walk-ups and the pivot at the landing

The hard part of an Old Town rowhouse is seldom the curb — it’s the staircase. These eighteenth-century stairwells squeeze tight and turn sharp, so a couch or a headboard gets sized up and sometimes lifted in through the front rather than forced around the bend. I gauge that when I walk it, cushion the jambs and the rail, and decide whether a piece travels down the steps or out a window on straps. Whichever way it goes is counted in your flat figure.

King Street towers and the cobblestone curb

The condos along King Street follow the usual high-rise routine: an insurance certificate on record, a freight elevator reserved by the hour. I file the certificate early so nothing stalls in the lobby. Out front, the cobblestones and cramped historic streets mean a 26-footer can’t always sit at the door, so I secure a legal staging spot and trim the carry — built in, never tacked on later.

In writing, licensed, never subcontracted

After the walk the figure is flat and printed — no diesel add-on, no per-mile entry sneaking aboard once the load is up, nothing materializing while the truck waits on the brick. Virginia authority, US DOT, MC: all of it is mine, and the people on your job are my own staff throughout, never hired in. Reach me at (888) 711-4778 and an Alexandria date goes on the books.

Alexandria at a glance

Our crews on the job in and around Alexandria

District

Old Town Alexandria, cobblestone streets lined with historic walk-up rowhouses

Stairs

Tight eighteenth-century stairwells that turn at the landing; large pieces get measured and sometimes hoisted from the front

King Street towers

The condo high-rises require a COI on file and a booked freight elevator, both arranged before move day

Parking

Cobblestones and narrow historic streets, so we stage from a legal spot and keep the cushioned carry short

Storage

When closing dates won't sync up, our own secured warehouse holds your belongings through the gap

Pricing for Alexandria moves

The cost to move out of Alexandria

Local move (hourly)

2-mover crewfrom $150/hr

Your rate already covers the floor runners, the pads, the dollies, and the truck. A two-hour minimum applies, and a typical Alexandria apartment job usually finishes within a 2–4 hour window.

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Flat-rate quote

Set in writing before we lift a box, so no clock ever pushes the total higher

Studio / 1-bedfrom $395
2-bedroomfrom $620
3-bedroom housefrom $910
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Top requests around Alexandria

Here is the kind of work our crew handles across the DMV:

Local Moving in Washington & the DMV

We commit to a single flat price on paper before touching anything, executed by a crew that has worked the region's high-rise docks and rowhouse stoops for years — most jobs land on the calendar within days, covering downtown DC through Arlington, Bethesda, Alexandria, and the close-in suburbs.

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Residential Moving

Padding, hallway carries, lobby navigation, driving, and room reassembly are all done by our own W-2 staff start to finish — your possessions never get passed off to temporary labor in between.

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Apartment Moving

Whether it's a fourth-floor walk-up near U Street or a tower with a booked freight elevator, we route your things through narrow stairs and tight corridors, guard the railings, and leave every doorframe unscratched as we settle you in.

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Full Packing Service

Going closet by closet with new boxes, we secure everything from stemware to framed photographs, which means you'll never tape a carton shut or haul a load to the curb yourself.

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Routes from Alexandria

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Common questions we get about moving in Alexandria

What people moving to Alexandria ask most

My rowhouse staircase is slim and turns at the landing — can the big stuff even make it?
Usually, though I verify it when I walk the place instead of gambling on move day. I size the couch or headboard against the bend, and if it won't clear, we lift it in through the front on straps. Whatever the piece takes is already counted in the quote, so the tight stairwell is mine to solve, not a charge on you.
We're closing on a place and the dates don't quite line up — can you bridge that?
Of course. I tighten the two dates as far as they'll go, and if a gap opens, your belongings rest secured in our storage until the new address opens up. The holding cost is settled in writing first, so none of it leaves you guessing down the road.
My King Street condo requires a certificate of insurance — can you provide one?
Yes. Give me the building's limits and the management company's name and I'll file the certificate well before move-in, so you aren't stranded in the lobby while a manager waits to clear us. It's part of the job, not a surcharge.
What's actually rolled into the flat price?
The truck, the pads and shrink film, the dollies, the floor runners, and the carry itself — cobblestone staging and the stair-lift included. There's no diesel add-on, no per-mile entry, and no charge for the cramped approach. Just one figure, settled in writing, before the day arrives.
Recent moves near Alexandria

What neighbors are saying

Bethany M.
Bethany M. Alexandria · 2-bed apartment
★★★★★

My Valley Springs unit has one of those skinny rear stairwells where you basically turn sideways to pass, and the crew handled it without a word of frustration. They packed the truck tight enough to do the entire job in one trip, even though I'd already mentally prepared for two loads. Skipping that second run shaved a noticeable amount off my total. I'm genuinely delighted.

Google · 2026-04-28
Camille O.
Camille O. Shaw · 4-bed house
★★★★★

They reworked their own schedule to accommodate mine, and despite a punishing job out of a four-bed with a tricky layout, the jokes never stopped flying. Not a single reservation on my end — I'd have them back on the books first thing tomorrow without thinking twice.

Google · 2025-07-28
Hassan A.
Hassan A. Gaithersburg · 2-bed condo
★★★★★

When our settlement slipped and we had a multi-week gap, Motivated stored everything we own at their own facility for the duration — climate-controlled, dry, exactly as promised. They returned later, reloaded it, and placed it all inside the new house unblemished. A month that was headed toward disaster became something I could actually cope with.

Yelp · 2025-09-22

We have loaded trucks on these blocks more times than we could count.

The loading docks and narrow stairwells around here are well-worn ground for us. Ask for a free estimate and we will factor them into the plan.

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