Short-Term Storage Between Closings
Closings rarely line up. You sell, you sign, and there’s a stretch of a few days or a few weeks before the new keys hit your palm, but the furniture has to live somewhere through the gap. Summit handles that bridge under one roof. The crew loads the house, the inventory rides into our facility off Independence Ave sealed and counted, and we redeliver on the actual day the new place is yours. One outfit running the entire stretch instead of a moving company plus a self-storage chain plus a third vendor for the redelivery truck.
Everything is inventoried as it leaves the house, tagged, and counted onto pads at the facility. We know exactly what went in and exactly what comes back out. The goods stay sealed against weather, pad-wrapped, and stacked on their own pallets rather than mixed under another household’s shipment. The Summit crew that loaded in Lee’s Summit handles the redelivery, so nothing gets rifled through twice or carried by hands that don’t know the inventory list.
One crew, one list, one phone number
Because Summit handles the move and the storage together, there’s no second handoff to coordinate. We hold the shipment, you call when the keys are real, and Cody schedules the redelivery to land on your actual key day. If the closing slips a week, as Missouri closings do when the appraisal needs a second look, we shift the redelivery without you having to start the booking over or chase down a self-storage chain that doesn’t know who you are.
- Goods kept sealed and weather-protected through the entire gap between sale and purchase
- A full written inventory at load-in, then verified again the day the truck rolls back out
- Pad-wrapped pieces palletized on their own rather than stacked loose with other shipments
- Redelivery booked for the actual key day, shifted if the closing date moves
- One Summit crew running load, hold, and redelivery end to end
- $150 deposit that holds the date and lands on the final total
To bridge the closing gap with a single outfit instead of three, call Summit at (888) 711-4778. The crew that loaded the house is the crew that unloads it on key day.
What's Covered
- Goods kept sealed and weather-protected through the entire gap between sale and purchase
- A full written inventory at load-in, then verified again the day the truck rolls back out
- Pad-wrapped pieces palletized on their own rather than stacked loose with other shipments
- Redelivery booked for the actual key day, shifted if the closing date moves
- One Summit crew running load, hold, and redelivery end to end
- $150 deposit that holds the date and lands on the final total
What's the Cost?
Two movers and our truck run $135 an hour, or a binding flat from $420
Built into that hourly: the truck, two uniformed Summit movers, blankets, dollies, shrink wrap, walk-boards — everything off the rig, with no fuel surcharge or stair fee tacked on at the end.
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