When you lease in Tampa Bay, the property manager sets the terms of move-in long before you reach the front desk with a key. A Channelside high-rise may approve only one freight-elevator slot per day, the Westshore management office expects a certificate of insurance naming the building before a hand truck rolls in, and a garden unit off Hillsborough Ave can mean three flights of exterior stairs and zero elevator. Threading those rules is the work, and it is exactly what Brett and Greg built our crew to handle.
A scuffed lobby wall comes out of your security deposit
Tampa towers and complexes routinely bill renters for marks left in shared corridors, elevators, and stairwells, so a single gouged wall in a Water Street lobby can land on your ledger weeks after you have moved in. Our crew lays floor runners through the route, hangs elevator pads where the building allows, and shrink-wraps every doorframe and corner before a box leaves the cart. Guarding the building is the same as guarding your refund.
- In business since2015, started by Tampa Bay locals Brett Donovan and Greg Hayes
- AuthorityLicensed and insured Florida mover, USDOT/MC authority, FDACS-registered
- Who shows upOur own W-2 crew on B and G trucks, the same hands that load also unload
- How we quotePriced on your unit and its access, not on the building’s address
How a B and G apartment move runs
- Map the access before the date. A reserved freight elevator, a loading-dock window, a gate code at Tampa Palms, or a tight stair turn off Dale Mabry all change the plan, so we walk it with you up front.
- Clear the building’s paperwork. If management wants a COI listing the property as additional insured, we issue it and send it ahead so nothing stalls you at the lobby on move day.
- Wrap first, carry second. Pads and runners go down, the heavy and awkward pieces move next, and we close with a walkthrough so you sign off before the truck pulls away.
The figure is set before the first box leaves the unit. We bill a studio at a flat $420 to $660 and a one-bedroom at $660 to $1,080. When a bigger or more awkward job pencils out lower on the clock, two movers are $125/hr, three are $170/hr, and four are $215/hr.
Tampa buildings we know our way around
✓ Our own trucks, staffed by movers on the B and G Movers payroll
- Call and Brett, Greg or someone else at our Westshore office answers in person, never a rented call floor
- The total on the written estimate is what you pay at the door — no move-day surcharge bolted on, no padded line items slid into the invoice.
- One B and G Movers crew packs, loads and unloads the whole way through
- Every load carries $1M of coverage, and any certificate of insurance your HOA or high-rise requires goes out the same day
- If something goes sideways, Brett and Greg handle the claim themselves, and it stays inside our Westshore office
× Broker chain
- Run those same details through a broker and they ricochet around a call floor before getting sold to whoever bids lowest.
- Unexpected “extras” added to the invoice the second the truck arrives
- An unfamiliar truck shows up carrying a crew of strangers
- The certificate of insurance and the building paperwork land on you to track down
- Broken items waved off with a “that was not our subcontractor” excuse
- Downtown, Channelside, Water Street, and Westshore high-rise and mid-rise condos with COI rules and reserved freight elevators
- Stair-only walk-ups on the third level off Hillsborough Ave and across the University area, no elevator in sight
- Gated communities like FishHawk, Westchase, and Tampa Palms where the front gate needs a code and a heads-up
- Hyde Park, SoHo, Seminole Heights, and Ybor City rentals with narrow drives and street parking to coordinate
- Suburban complexes in Carrollwood, Town ‘n’ Country, Brandon, and Riverview, an easy run off I-275 or Dale Mabry Hwy
Three flights, no elevator, and a Tampa afternoon
A garden unit on the third level off Hillsborough Ave is honest work in our heat, and a 90-degree June afternoon with thunderheads building over the bay is no time to be hauling a sofa down open stairs. We book renters into early starts so the heavy carrying wraps before the storms roll in, and during hurricane season we keep an eye on the forecast with you. A single heavy piece is welcome too; tell us it is one armoire down two flights and we will quote just that.
Ready to lock in your move window and have the insurance paperwork handled? Call our crew at [bc_phone] and we will set one flat per-unit figure on your Tampa apartment or condo job, before a B and G truck rolls out of Westshore.
