What Moving Actually Costs in Osawatomie and Miami County in 2026

Before you talk to anyone about your move, here’s the number itself. This is the same pricing chart Carol Hutchins reads from when she answers the phone at our Old Kansas City Rd office — not a teaser rate that turns into something else once a crew is standing in your driveway. We’ve held these bands steady for a while now, and we’d rather you see them here than hear them for the first time on a phone call.

Those six lines answer most of what folks ask before they ever mention a specific address. The rest of this page is the how and why behind them.

Why a Miami County Quote Looks Different Than a Kansas City One

We get asked, fairly often, why our numbers run well under what a Kansas City or Wichita mover quotes for the same size home. The honest answer is overhead. We’re not renting a downtown office, running a fleet out of a metro yard, or paying big-city labor rates to a rotating bench of temp workers.

We’re a family business working out of Osawatomie, and we’ve kept it that way on purpose since Dale and Carol started with one truck in 2009. Lower cost of doing business here means we can charge Miami County prices instead of stretching for Kansas City ones, even on a move that ends up crossing into the metro.

Put plainly: a 2-bedroom move that runs close to $2,000 with a metro-area mover starts at $999 with us, for the same boxes and the same furniture. The truck doesn’t know the difference. The overhead does.

Paying By the Hour Instead

Not every job fits neatly into a flat band — a partial move, a small apartment with just a bed and boxes, or a job where you’re doing your own packing. For those, we bill hourly:

• 2 movers: $89/hr
• 3 movers: $119/hr
• 4 movers: $149/hr

Truck, furniture pads, and dollies are included at every crew size. Tyler Hutchins walks the property in person before he quotes crew size, rather than guessing off a room count over the phone — a two-person crew grinding through a job that needed four from the start costs you more in hours than the bigger crew would have.

What Actually Moves Your Number Around Here

Nobody in Miami County is pricing around a freight elevator. Our version of that conversation looks like this instead:

• Distance from the truck to your front door — a quarter-mile gravel lane back to a farmhouse takes longer to load than a driveway right off the road, and Tyler builds that into the estimate up front
• Stairs in older Osawatomie and Paola homes — plenty of the housing stock here predates modern staircases; it’s accounted for, not added later
• Piano, gun safes, and other heavy single items — flat $229 for a piano, other heavy pieces priced once Tyler’s seen them
• Packing — if you want the kitchen and closets boxed for you, that’s priced separately from the move itself, based on what’s actually there

“I’d rather tell a family their number is going to be a little higher because of that lane back to the house than have Cole’s crew show up and surprise them with it.” — Dale Hutchins, owner, Family Time Moving

Long-Distance Moves Out of Osawatomie

Sitting near the junction of US-169 and K-68, Osawatomie is a reasonable starting point for a move well past the county line. Megan Hutchins runs most of these long-distance jobs personally.

Every long-distance run goes out under our US DOT and MC interstate authority, and Megan or Tyler will tell you up front if a date lands during harvest or fair week, when two-lane highways out of the county run slower than usual.

We also run routes out toward Springfield, Omaha, and Columbia fairly often, along with occasional runs to Oklahoma City. If your destination isn’t in the table above, ask Megan for a specific figure — the same honest, low-overhead pricing applies no matter which direction the truck is headed.

Booking and the Deposit

A $75 deposit holds your crew, your truck, and your date. Carol handles booking herself most days, and if your move involves a long gravel lane or an unusual access point, she’ll ask about it before your date is even confirmed — not leave it for the crew to discover the morning of.

Storage runs $60 a month at our own building off Old Kansas City Rd, for anyone whose closing date slips or who needs a few weeks between houses.

Straight Answers

Does the flat rate include a long driveway? Yes, once Tyler knows about it — that’s why we ask about your lane or driveway before we finalize a number, not after.

Do you charge extra for stairs? No. Reasonable stairs and carries are built into the flat price once we know the home.

What if my closing date moves? Storage at $60 a month covers most gaps, and Carol can usually adjust your move date without much notice.

Is this actually cheaper than a Kansas City mover? For most home sizes, yes — ask for a comparison quote and see for yourself.

Do you require a full deposit up front? No — just the $75 to hold your date. The rest is settled the day of the move, once the job’s actually done.

Want to know exactly who shows up with that number? Read why a family-owned crew changes the job. Moving out of a rural property? See what to expect on a gravel road move.