Essex County is not one moving market
Essex County contains about as much variety as any county in New Jersey, and the moves reflect it. At one end there is Newark, with narrow Ironbound streets, two and three family houses, and managed apartment buildings downtown and around the universities. At the other there is Livingston and Short Hills, where the houses are large, the driveways are long, and packing is usually the bigger half of the job.
In between sit the Midtown Direct towns, Montclair, Maplewood, South Orange, Glen Ridge, which run heavily to pre-war Victorians and colonials. Narrow staircases, half landings, third-floor attics turned into bedrooms. These towns also take a constant flow of families arriving from Manhattan and Brooklyn apartments, which is a completely different estimate from a house-to-house move within the county.
We work all of it out of one New Jersey warehouse, which puts most of Essex County inside a short run for a crew.
What we ask before we quote it
- Which floor, and how the staircase is laid out
- Whether either address is an apartment building with a COI requirement
- What is in the attic, basement and garage
- Whether a full-size truck can reach and stand at the property
Towns we cover here
