Rafael Ontiveros spent his years before Lightyear dispatching freight in and out of Fort Bliss, where a load that shifts on a supply run isn’t a scuff mark, it’s a missed delivery window that gets a call from a commanding officer. He still runs household moves against that same bar: nothing goes on the truck until every stop is planned out loud, in front of the customer.
How Lightyear plans a move before the truck starts loading
- Isabela Duarte builds your written estimate off a video walkthrough or photos texted in, whatever’s easiest from where you’re standing
- We ask about apartment gate codes, HOA move-in hours, and second-floor stairs before quote day, so none of it surprises the crew on the day itself
- Every piece of furniture gets padded and wrapped in the room it starts in, never dragged bare across a driveway first
- Beds, sectionals, and dressers come apart at the old address and go back together exactly where you point at the new one
- I-10 traffic patterns near Downtown and the Westside get built into your arrival window instead of guessed at
What move day looks like across the Borderplex
- The address gets walked first A Lower Valley property in Socorro or San Elizario with a long dirt approach gets looked at before the truck backs in, so the crew already knows where the tires go.
- One room finishes before the next starts Marcos Villalobos runs his crew room by room: floor cleared, door shut, rather than working four rooms at once.
- 110-degree days change the pace, not the plan Summer load-outs get extra water breaks and an earlier start time built in, so the heat slows the crew down, never the schedule.
- Boxes go exactly where they’re labeled Whatever room a box says on the side is where it’s set down, and anything taken apart gets rebuilt in place.
Fort Bliss PCS timelines and Westside high-rise elevators: priced in before the walkthrough ends
A PCS move with orders that won’t move regardless of what the calendar says, a Westside condo tower with a single freight elevator, or a Horizon City subdivision still finishing its second phase of construction, all of that gets worked into your number while Isabela is still standing in your living room. Boxes and wrap are priced on their own; see the packing page for how that number is built.
Local move pricing
Two of our crew at $110 an hour usually covers a studio or one-bedroom apartment. A typical two- or three-bedroom household moves faster with three movers at $145 an hour, and a full four-bedroom house is where we bring a four-person crew at $190 an hour.
| Bedrooms | Flat rate |
|---|---|
| Studio | $390 – $610 |
| 1 bedroom | $610 – $980 |
| 2 bedrooms | $980 – $1,580 |
| 3 bedrooms | $1,580 – $2,560 |
| 4+ bedrooms | $2,520 – $3,990 |
Moving into a leasing office building with a dock schedule instead of a house? The apartment page covers that differently. Otherwise, give Selena Aguirre both addresses and she’ll usually have Diego’s written figure back to you the same day.