Piano Movers Fort Lauderdale
Piano specialists turned full Broward mover since 2011, running our own trucks and W-2 crews — one flat rate in writing, nothing tacked on at the curb
Your Free Flat Rate
Tell us what is moving — a baby grand, a Las Olas condo, a whole Victoria Park house — and you get back one written number with our name behind it. The freight-elevator slot and the high-rise COI your building wants are already baked into that figure before it reaches you.
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Why Broward families call us when the move is a grand piano up to a high-rise condo, a baby grand down a Victoria Park staircase, and a building that wants a COI and a freight elevator booked before the truck shows up
How a move works
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Tell us what’s moving
Reach us however suits you — the short form on this page or a call to the office — and a real person from our own crew answers, never a message service. Four things get us started: your pickup address, your destination, the week you have in mind, and a rough count of what is coming with you (and whether there is a piano in the mix). Nothing is signed and nothing is owed at this point, and what you tell us stays in-house — it never gets sold off to a lead-broker phone room.
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One written price, locked
The figure usually reaches your inbox the same day: a firm rate on paper, with none of the phone-quote guesswork and none of the meter that keeps spinning once the truck fills up. What we email is what you pay at the curb — the estimate and the final box off the ramp come to the exact same total, full stop. When a Las Olas tower or a high-rise building needs a Certificate of Insurance before the freight elevator or loading dock will open, Carla files it with management ahead of their cutoff and books the elevator window the address requires, so the crew rolls straight in with a reserved spot at the door.
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Move day: we lift, you relax
Out come the pads, the floor runners, the piano board and skid — plus whatever a tight high-rise hallway or a third-floor walk-up happens to demand — and behind every one of them stands a W-2 mover on our own payroll, never a sub and never day-labor. From the first carton to the last, the job stays ours start to finish: cradling a baby grand onto the board, wheeling it to the truck, running it across Broward or up the coast, then resetting each room the way you left it. If your closing slips and the keys run late, the load goes into climate-controlled, piano-safe storage to bridge the gap, and your timeline never skips a beat.
Tell us what’s moving
Give us the details and the crew runs with it. Maybe it’s a grand piano in a Victoria Park bungalow, a high-rise condo off Las Olas with one freight elevator, a Plantation house with a packing job attached, or a long-distance pull up the coast — whatever it is, Piano Movers Fort Lauderdale rolls up in trucks we own, sends W-2 movers on our own payroll, and brings the piano know-how and Broward miles to handle whatever Fort Lauderdale and Broward County hands us.
Local Moving in Fort Lauderdale & Broward
Flat-rate local moves across Fort Lauderdale and Broward with our own trucks and W-2 crews — high-rise condos and staircases included.
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Long-Distance & Cross-State Moving from Fort Lauderdale
Licensed cross-state moves out of Fort Lauderdale on I-95 and the Turnpike — one crew loads, drives, and unloads, no broker handoff.
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House & Waterfront-Home Moving
Houses and waterfront estates moved start to finish, from Las Olas and Rio Vista to the gated communities out west.
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Apartment, Condo & High-Rise Moving
Intracoastal high-rises, downtown condos, and beach towers — we pull the COI and book the freight elevator before move day.
Learn more →Full Packing Service
Our crew packs the whole home in heat-rated boxes the day before, or just the kitchen, the art, and the breakables.
Learn more →Climate-Controlled & Piano-Safe Storage
Climate-controlled, piano-safe storage for the weeks a South Florida closing or a storm slips the schedule, billed by the month.
Learn more →Piano, Grand & Organ Moving
Grands, baby grands, uprights, and organs boarded and moved up a high-rise or down a staircase without a scratch — our specialty since 2011.
Learn more →Loading & Unloading Help
Hourly muscle to load or unload your rented truck, pod, or container — we stack it tight so nothing shifts on I-95.
Learn more →Senior Moving & Downsizing
Patient downsizing help for Broward retirees moving to a smaller home or a 55-plus community, at no clock-watching pace.
Learn more →What Broward homeowners say
“Dominic and crew were amazing!! Efficient and professional! Highly recommend.”
Meet Dominic Russo
“I got tired of watching families hand a forty-thousand-dollar grand to a dollar-per-pound general crew that chipped the lid and snapped a leg”
Grew up in Fort Lauderdale and started out delivering and moving pianos for a Las Olas piano dealer before he was twenty. On most jobs you will still find Dominic riding along on the truck and lifting beside the crew — and it is exactly that hands-on habit that keeps a quote honest, since the movers standing at your door are people he brought on and trained up himself.
Why families pick us
- A flat rate you can read — the number on the page is the number you pay; no breezy phone estimate, no invoice that swells once the truck is loaded
- $1M in cargo coverage — and when a Las Olas high-rise asks for a Certificate of Insurance, it is filed with management ahead of whatever cutoff they set
- Trucks we own, crews on our W-2 — these movers are Broward locals, paid by us and covered by our policy; no part of the day is ever handed to a sub or padded out with day-labor
- Pianos are our specialty — grands, baby grands, uprights, and organs ride on our own boards and skids with trained hands, the freight-elevator COI filed before move day; that is exactly where the bargain crews fold
- An owner you can reach — call in and Dominic answers in person, and you will still catch him on the bigger Las Olas and Victoria Park jobs, so no distant call center is ever steering your move
- 15 years across Broward — routine work for this crew: easing a baby grand out of a Victoria Park condo, threading a high-rise hallway off Las Olas, and loading out early so the afternoon heat and hurricane season never catch us short
Serving Fort Lauderdale and Broward County
Top long-haul lanes from Fort Lauderdale
Here is how it works: one flat rate in writing, our own US DOT number on a truck we hold the title to, and door-to-door tracking that stays with your load the whole way — whether the drive heads up I-95 to the Northeast, west across the Gulf states, or north toward Orlando and beyond.
Common questions
Are the trucks and crews actually yours?
Three things normally live with three different vendors at a moving company — the trucks, the hands lifting your boxes, and the legal authority the move runs under. At Piano Movers Fort Lauderdale all three are ours, and not one is farmed out. Dominic runs the company out of Fort Lauderdale, FL, licensed for household goods and insured across the state: FDACS IM3142 covers our Florida intrastate work, and any haul that crosses a state line travels under active USDOT and MC authority. In plain terms that means we hold the title on every truck parked in the yard, and the Broward movers carrying your cartons — right down to the piano specialist on the board — collect a W-2 paycheck from us, so no slice of your move ever quietly slides over to a sub or gets patched with day-labor.
What will my move cost?
Nothing here is metered — a local job is priced as one flat rate that covers the whole move, and that number holds whether the sofa has to thread a high-rise hallway or a grand piano has to ride down in the freight elevator. South Florida rates sit a touch over the national average: when an hourly figure fits the work, plan on roughly $130 an hour for a two-mover team; a two-bedroom apartment or condo usually lands between $500 and $1,250, with three- and four-bedroom houses above that, and piano work quoted as its own line. Once Dominic has walked the rooms in person or gone through them on a video tour, the full flat rate goes in writing — the freight-elevator slot, the COI, and any climate-controlled storage that bridges a sale and a closing all folded in.
When should I get my move on the calendar?
Two weeks of lead time is the sweet spot for most families, and a little extra is smart once the snowbird season fills the calendar. The crunch dates are predictable: anything tied to a month-end closing, a lease that flips on the first, or the winter stretch when half of Broward seems to be moving at once. Outside that rush the board loosens up and a few days’ notice will usually do. Hurricane season runs June through November, and a job still rolls on schedule — the only real wildcard is a named storm bearing down, and if a system is tracking our way Sal flags it with you well in advance. And if you reach us during a quiet week with an open crew, even a same-week ask can often find a slot.
Is there anything you won’t move or can’t handle?
The piece that scares off most crews is the one we lead with. A baby grand, an upright, a console organ that has to come down a staircase — that is the exact job this company was founded around, so for us it is routine rather than a gamble. Board it, set the skid, and put trained hands on it who have run that lift a thousand times with proper gear, and the heavy instrument rides down without a scratch; that is a piano specialist at work, not a weekend favor from a couple of neighbors. Reach is rarely the issue either. Our coverage stretches across all of Fort Lauderdale and Broward County — Hollywood, Pompano Beach, Plantation, Davie, Sunrise, Coral Springs, and every town dotted through Broward — and onto the long lanes too: north on I-95 toward the Northeast, west into the Gulf states, and up toward Orlando. Furniture is only the start of it, though. Whole-house packing, climate-controlled storage to bridge a sale and a closing, and calm, unhurried help for seniors thinning out a lifetime of belongings all land well within our day-to-day.
Are you insured, and will my building get its COI?
Every job we run is covered before it starts, and the paperwork side — the Certificate of Insurance — is precisely where the bargain outfits trip up. Your move sits behind general liability, workers’ comp, a surety bond, and $1M of cargo protection; if you want a thicker cushion, full-value coverage layers on at roughly 1–3% of the value you declare. When a Las Olas high-rise, a condo manager, or an HOA board insists on that COI being on file before the freight elevator or loading dock opens, Nicole has it drafted and sent to management well inside their deadline.
Do I need to be on site myself?
Having you at both ends — load-out and drop-off — smooths things along, largely because a Las Olas tower or a downtown front desk tends to want a real person signing in at the dock. But mornings get away from people, and a relative you trust or a neighbor holding a set of keys stands in perfectly well. Whoever is standing there, the method is identical on both ends: each item is tagged as it goes up the ramp, then that very inventory is read back and ticked off one piece at a time as it crosses the threshold at your new place.
Any fee to reschedule?
Cancel with at least two days’ notice and there is no fee whatsoever — simple as that. Shifting to a different day carries no charge either, provided a crew still has that date open. Worth bearing in mind, though: closings at the end of the month, leases that turn on the first, and the snowbird stretch book up quickly right across Broward, so flagging a change early is what protects the slot your plans are built around.
How can I pay?
Whatever is simplest for you suits us — Visa, Mastercard, Amex, and Discover all go through, and so do debit, a certified check, or cash. Reserving your date on the calendar takes nothing up front. The balance comes due on delivery, only after you have walked the load and signed off on it — never a moment before.
What if something is damaged?
Standard released-value coverage at $0.60/lb comes with every job, no surcharge attached. Spot something off? Point it out to the crew chief before the truck pulls away and it goes onto that day’s inventory on the spot — and most claims settle comfortably inside the roughly nine-month window we keep open. Trusting us with a family heirloom, a treasured piano, or anything you would hate to lose? Add full-value protection at around 1–3% of the value you declare, and that piece travels with far more cushion behind it.
Pick your day — the lifting is on us.
Send over the two ZIP codes plus the week you have in mind, and one clean flat rate finds its way back to you before the day closes — with the freight-elevator slot and the high-rise COI baked into that number up front, never bolted on afterward.