★★★★★ 4.9/5 across 24 Genesee County reviews

Short-Term Storage in Flint, MI

When your closing dates miss or a build runs long, we hold your household in a secure bay at our Dort Highway yard and bring it back when you're ready — billed by the week instead of a locked-in month.
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Budget Moving crew loading boxes into the moving truck in Flint

A real mover answers, every time

Dial the yard and it is Curtis on the line, or one of the crew who actually rides the trucks — no phone tree, no scripted call center. Walk us through what makes your move tricky — a turning staircase in an older Carriage Town bungalow, a Grand Blanc basement that has to come up flight by flight, the long rural pull out to Goodrich — and we have the whole day mapped before your date lands.

The number is locked before we lift a thing

We walk your rooms one by one, fold the wardrobe boxes, pads, dollies and shrink-wrap straight into that figure, and hand it to you in writing — so once the truck is in your driveway, nothing new ever shows up on the tab. That is what Budget stands for here: an honest up-front price, not a rental-depot counter.

Box the whole house or just the breakables

Give us the kitchen for dish barrels, let closets ride across on the hanger in wardrobe cartons, or simply flag the mirrors, flat-screens and glass tabletops — those we build a fitted crate around for the road. Your call on how much we handle.

The same crew, front door to front door

Whoever sizes up your rooms at the estimate is the crew chief steering the truck and doing the final walkthrough with you — a Davison ranch, a Flushing two-story, a third-floor place near UM-Flint, the job never gets handed off partway.

Around Flint the sale of one home and the keys to the next rarely land on the same day — a winter build can run past its finish date, or the bank can clear your loan a week early. Instead of eating a full month on a unit you’d hardly open, we tuck your things into our own secured bay on Dort Highway and bill you by the week.

The way we run storage

  • Everything is blanket-wrapped and shrink-filmed first, before a thing goes into the bay
  • It sits in a clean, locked, secured bay at our own Flint yard
  • Kept indoors and dry, so a Michigan winter and the road salt stay away from your wood, leather and electronics
  • The same crew hauls it back out the day you give the word

One crew clears your home, warehouses it and returns it — none of it detours through a rented locker or some stranger’s warehouse. Pass both dates to Renae — closings a few days apart, or a longer wait on a build — and the released-value protection from your move carries straight through the storage.

Included on Every Job

Each item here is simply how our crews work a move — nothing on this list reappears as a surprise charge at the foot of your bill.

  • Billing runs weekly, so a brief gap between homes never costs you a whole month you barely use
  • All of it blanket-wrapped and sealed up before it goes into the bay
  • Stored in a clean, secure, locked bay at our own Dort Highway yard
  • Indoors and dry, keeping winter cold, damp and road salt off your leather, wood and electronics
  • Whoever loads your home is who warehouses it and later brings it back inside
  • Never shipped out to a rented locker or a third-party warehouse
  • Redelivery timed to your closing date, or whenever the new place is finally ready

What Flint Customers Say

★ Google
★★★★★

“The movers were very professional and very mind on task oriented.”

Jordan B.
Davison, MI · Long-distance move
★ Google
★★★★★

“The two young gentlemen were very polite and had a good sense of humor, didn't waste time either”

Cheryl A.
Genesee County, MI · Storage move
★ Google
★★★★★

“Great experience with Jackson of All Trades. Very fast, friendly, and careful! Will be using them for all future moves. Pricing was very reasonable!”

Leigh D.
Carriage Town, Flint · Local move

The Questions We Get Most

My closing got pushed and I'm already out of the old house — can you hold everything until the new one clears?
Yes. If a Genesee County closing drags, your load stays wrapped in our Dort Highway bay until the keys finally land, and then we run it over. Hand Renae the updated date — billing by the week keeps a short hold cheap. Call (888) 278-9005.
Say I only need ten days of storage — do I still pay for a whole month?
No. Billing goes week by week rather than by the month, so a short gap between homes only runs you the weeks you truly need. A longer hold — waiting on a build or a sale — works exactly the same.
Can you store our things over the winter while our new place is being finished?
That's a common one here. Plenty of Flint builds and remodels run through the cold months, so we'll hold your household through the season in a locked indoor bay and deliver it back the week your place is ready.
Will my furniture sit out in the Michigan cold or damp?
Neither. Your belongings live in a clean, locked, indoor bay — not some metal container left out in the yard through a Flint winter — so cold, damp and road salt never reach your leather, wood or electronics.
Only a handful of big pieces, not a whole household — is that still worth it?
That works fine. Full truckload or just the oversized pieces that won't fit after a downsize, you're charged for the space used and the weeks it stays — nothing else.
The same Flint crew is on your move start to finish — first carton loaded, last piece carried in and set down

Your Move Day, Step by Step

  1. 1

    Your written number, same day

    Our part: Give us the room count, whether we are walking straight out or hauling up from a full basement, and how the street and driveway sit on your block — and before we shut the office for the night, a figure in writing is usually already in your inbox.

    Your part: Come with both anchor dates — move-out and move-in — and any codes for the building, garage or gate; that is what tightens a ballpark into a firm price.

  2. 2

    Access nailed down ahead of time

    Our part: We line up driveway and street access, book the elevator window at a college-area building, clear whatever certificate of insurance a property manager keeps on file, and in winter get the walk shoveled and salted — so the truck parks at the door and nobody has to carry a dresser half a block.

    Your part: Hand us your two anchor dates — the one you must be out and the one you can move in — and tell us which of them cannot move.

  3. 3

    Padded, wrapped, tagged, carried

    Our part: Dressers and sofas disappear under moving blankets and a wrap of stretch film, and every bit of hardware pulled off a bed frame or table gets bagged, tagged and taped right to the piece it came from.

    Your part: Label your own cartons with the room they belong in on the far end, and keep passports, keys and small valuables riding in your own car, not the truck.

  4. 4

    Off the truck, one room at a time

    Our part: Whoever loaded the truck is who unloads it — each piece set where you want it, bed frames bolted back together, and every scrap of used wrap and tape hauled back out with us.

    Your part: Walk the emptied rooms alongside the crew chief before the truck pulls away, while anything needing a quick touch-up still can get it.

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What will a Flint move run you?

Tell us your home size, the date you have in mind, and roughly what is coming with you, and the same day we send a written estimate straight to your inbox. Nothing is due up front and there is no deposit — just a figure solid enough to build the whole move around.

  • Fully licensed and insured — Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) household-goods authority covers our in-state jobs, and the moment a load crosses the Michigan line we run under US DOT and MC authority
  • What you sign off on is exactly what the crew bills to — the figure is counted room by room, never eyeballed from the curb
  • Every mover on the job is in our uniform, on our own W-2 payroll, behind the wheel of a truck we own

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4,200Local moves booked across Flint, Grand Blanc, Burton and the rest of Genesee County
13Years moving Genesee County households, from downtown Flint out to the rural townships
4.9Star average from 24 verified Genesee County reviews
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