Licensed Ohio (PUCO) mover Est. 2011 Cincinnati & Greater Cincinnati 4.9★ / 32 reviews
Moving service · Cincinnati & the Tristate

Local Moving Across Greater Cincinnati & the Tristate

Give the form a minute — and a binding flat rate, itemized top to bottom, is back in your inbox before the business day closes

Expect your written number the same day you ask, usually within hours. Free estimate, no strings. Whatever details you share stop at our Cincinnati office — nothing gets resold, and nothing gets handed off to a broker.

Where the Tristate sizes up a mover first

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01 Overview

Local Moving Built for How the Queen City Actually Moves

Cincinnati doesn’t move like a flat suburban grid. You’ve got 1800s Italianate brick in Over-the-Rhine with staircases barely wide enough for a couch, hillside homes on Mt. Adams and Price Hill where the truck parks below the front door, and 1920s brick in Hyde Park and Oakley with finished attics and full basements packed to the rafters. Spartan Moving and Storage was started in 2011 by Doug Reinhardt to handle exactly that, and we’ve been the Tristate’s flat-rate crew ever since.

From an Over-the-Rhine walk-up to a Mason colonial, Greater Cincinnati moving crew writes the whole job as one flat number up front and holds it — no extra lines once the truck is loaded.

Our Trucks, Our Movers, One Flat Number

We are a licensed Ohio (PUCO) household-goods mover with USDOT and MC authority, and we run our own fleet out of our Cincinnati yard. The crew that wraps your dresser in the morning is the same uniformed crew that sets it down in the new place. Nobody gets handed off, and nobody bills you for surprises. We quote one flat rate for the whole job after we see your inventory.

What a Local Day Looks Like

Before the date, we walk the tight spots: which OTR stairwell needs a piece taken apart, where the truck can legally sit on a street-parking-only block, how the carry runs up a Clifton retaining wall. On move day we lay heavy floor runners and pad the jambs, which matters in a salted, slushy Ohio winter when everybody’s tracking in snow.

  • Two movers and a truck at $172 an hour, three movers and a truck at $232 an hour, no inflated minimum
  • Flat-rate local jobs start at $379 for a studio or one-bedroom
  • Reserve the date with $90 down, refunded against the final invoice
  • $0.60 per pound released coverage standard, full-value protection available, federal cargo coverage up to $1,000,000 per shipment

The Whole Tristate, Not Just the City

We cover Cincinnati proper and run north up I-71 and I-75 to Mason, West Chester, and Blue Ash, east to Hyde Park and Anderson Township, and south across the Ohio River to Covington and Florence, Kentucky. A move from a downtown row house to a brick colonial with a full basement in Mason is one job, one crew, one flat price.

Ready When You Are

Tell us the two addresses and roughly what you’ve got, and we’ll put a real flat number in front of you. No hourly guessing game, no broker in the middle. Get my free moving quote and we’ll get your day on the board.

What’s included

  • Spartan crew and truck dispatched from our Cincinnati yard, same movers loading and unloading both ends
  • Flat-rate quote locked in for any address inside Greater Cincinnati and the OH/KY/IN Tristate
  • Stair plans worked out ahead of time for OTR row-house staircases and Mt. Adams hillside walk-ups
  • Heavy floor runners and door jamb pads laid against winter slush, salt, and tracked-in snow
  • Pads, stretch wrap, and dollies ride on the truck, and our team breaks down and re-sets your furniture
  • Street-parking and no-driveway logistics handled, including curb-to-door carries on narrow Cincinnati blocks

How we land on the price

We open with a short walkthrough or video survey, then set one flat Greater Cincinnati rate off your actual inventory — no hourly meter buried anywhere inside it. Whatever that quote reads is the whole price, with nothing tacked on once the truck is loaded or a winter storm pushes the date.

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02 How we protect your move

Your things get handled the way we would handle our own

Each truck rolls out stocked with pads, shrink film, and heavy floor runners — ready to blanket furniture, keep hardwood and stair treads clean through snow and salted-street slush, and cushion the fragile pieces, whether it is a narrow Over-the-Rhine row house with original stairs, a full basement to clear in West Chester, or a hillside place on Mt. Adams where the only parking is the street.

Quilted pads

Dressers, dining tables, and headboards are blanketed right where they stand, padded up well before anything starts down the stairs.

Stretch film

Drawers stay shut and cushions stay clean — wrapped tight so road salt, slush, and a wet walk to the truck never touch the fabric.

Floor & stair guards

Runners down, banisters wrapped, jambs padded — the first thing we do at both homes, so steep original staircases and corners come through untouched.

Built-to-fit crating

In the room, before anything fragile leaves it, we measure a mirror, glass top, framed piece, or flat screen edge to edge and build the crate snug around it.

Break-down & rebuild

Bed frames, tables, and sectionals come apart to ride safe down tight stairwells, and our crew reassembles every one once it is through the new door.

Straps, dollies & gear

A fourth-floor walk-up downtown, a long haul up from a full basement, or the heaviest single piece in the house — each gets the right tie-downs, stair-climbers, and rigging off our truck.

03 Why us

The name painted on the truck is the name signed at the bottom of your estimate

Hire Spartan Moving and Storage and the truck at the curb is ours, the estimate is ours, and the uniformed crew easing your couch down a narrow OTR staircase is on our own Greater Cincinnati payroll — your move is never sold off to someone else. A broker runs it backward: they shop your job to whoever bids cheapest that week, pocket the spread, and wash their hands of it.

Spartan Moving and Storage
  • Our trucks, our fleet, and the full-time background-checked movers in them are on our own payroll — we never round out a crew with labor pulled off a listing
  • The number we put in writing is the number you pay — set, signed, and correct to the dollar before a single box leaves the room
  • One crew the whole way through, from the first piece down the old stairs to the last one carried into the new place
  • Full insurance backs every job, with cargo coverage up to $1,000,000; on top of that we carry the Ohio (PUCO) household-goods license and USDOT/MC authority that interstate runs require
  • One point of contact at our Cincinnati office, alongside you from the first call to the last box set down inside
What a broker does
  • Hands your move to whatever crew underbids the rest in the week you happened to call
  • Lets the total creep up once the truck arrives, padded with charges nobody mentioned the day you booked
  • Walks strangers you have never spoken to through your front door, handing your whole household to a crew nobody can vouch for
  • Leaves you guessing whose policy pays the day a dresser corner gouges a wall on the way down the stairs
  • Drops a call center between you and whoever finally turns up to load, so one plain question becomes a runaround
04 Reviews

In the words of the Greater Cincinnati families whose moves we handled

★★★★★

“Tyrone and crew were amazing! So helpful and”

Jim R.Clifton · via Google
★★★★★

“Absolutely BEST TEAM!! Friendly and BRAVO ZULU on a job. well. done. 🫡 Military family always gets the job done right the first time! Rah Ready to root!”

Carol K.Covington · via Google
★★★★★

“Great quick reliable service. Tyrone and Nick were wonderful to work with!”

Matt D.Covington · via Google
05 Good to know

Questions we hear about this service

My OTR building has the original 1800s staircase and no driveway. Can your crew still do it?
That's our daily bread in Over-the-Rhine. Nick Sandoval runs our row-house crew specifically for tall, narrow Italianate stairwells. We walk the staircase before the date, decide what comes apart, hoist or hand-carry the awkward pieces, and stage the truck on the street so the curb-to-door carry is as short as we can make it.
How is the price set for a local Cincinnati move?
You can run it two ways. Hourly is $172 an hour for two movers and a truck or $232 an hour for three, with no padded one-hour minimum. Most folks prefer the flat number, which opens at $379 for a studio or one-bedroom, so you know the total before we ever roll up. We ask for $90 to reserve your day, and that $90 gets deducted from the final bill.
Do you cross the Ohio River into Northern Kentucky?
Yes. We run Covington, Newport, Florence, and the rest of NKY constantly over the Brent Spence and Roebling bridges. A move from a Hyde Park condo to a Florence subdivision is still one flat local rate with our crew, not a handoff to anybody else.

Want us on this job? Start with a free quote.

Tell us what the move involves; from there we build the flat-rate estimate and you have it back inside a few hours.

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