Orange County

Newport Beach movers who measure the alley first

Newport Beach is built on thirty-foot lots and three-story houses, and on the Balboa Peninsula, Balboa Island and Lido Isle the garage opens onto an alley rather than the street. Up the hill the problem inverts: Newport Coast, Big Canyon and the Port Streets in Harbor View start with a guard, a vendor list and a certificate of insurance. Flexdolly covers all of it from the San Diego operation, on the California line.

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OwnershipVeteran-Owned

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Licensed & InsuredUSDOT #4329208

Coverage$1M liability · $100K cargo

Availability24/7 incl. holidays

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The neighborhood

Access decides the day here

West Newport, the Peninsula, Balboa Island and Lido Isle were platted narrow and deep, with the garage off a rear alley and the living space stacked over it. Corona del Mar does the same thing on its alphabetized flower streets, from Acacia through Poppy, where a duplex commonly runs three levels above an alley-loaded garage. A full-size van cannot turn into most of those alleys, and it cannot simply wait on the block either: in the city's residential permit zones a parking permit does not cover a vehicle over twenty-two feet long, and moving trucks in parking-sensitive areas are tolerated only briefly. So we survey the approach before we quote it and shuttle when the alley is tighter than the truck, staging the large vehicle on a legal stretch of Balboa Boulevard or Newport Boulevard and running a smaller one to the door.

Inland and uphill it stops being a width problem and becomes a paperwork problem. Newport Coast is a layered association, with Crystal Cove, Pelican Crest, Pelican Ridge, Ocean Heights and Tesoro each keeping rules on top of the master, and the first thing that meets the truck is a guard checking a vendor list. Big Canyon and the Port Streets add their own gate procedures and vendor hours, and the mid-rise bayfront buildings want a certificate of insurance on file with management plus a booked elevator window before the ramp comes down. We collect the gate name, the association contact and the COI request on the first call, so none of it gets discovered at eight in the morning with a loaded truck at the kiosk.

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For this neighborhood

What Newport Beach asks us for

Peninsula, island and hill

Local Residential Moving

Most Newport Beach houses are tall and narrow: three finished levels over a garage that faces an alley. We crew and stage for exactly that, with an access survey up front, a shuttle vehicle when the van will not fit down the alley, and floor runners and banister padding on every flight. The same crew works a Balboa Island lot and a Newport Coast gate.

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Grands, uprights and the landing turn

Piano Moving

Corona del Mar bluff houses and Big Canyon estates tend to keep the piano on the level with the view, which is almost never the level with the door. We take down the legs and pedals, board and blanket the instrument, and work out the turn on the landing before anything leaves its spot.

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Downsizing, unhurried

Senior Moving

The familiar Newport Beach downsize is out of a Harbor View or Big Canyon house of thirty years and into something smaller near the bay. We move at the pace the day actually needs, label by room against the new floor plan, and apply a senior discount to the job.

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All fourteen services run in Newport Beach. These are the three it books most. See every service →

01 / THE NUMBERS

Pricing for alley garages and gated hills

Studio and small movesMost land in this range, quoted exactly before you book

$400–600

One and two bedroomsThe typical Newport Beach apartment

$600–1,000

Larger homesFull bungalows and everything in them

$1,000–1,400

DepositApplied to your total, refundable with 48 hours’ notice

$100+

Basic coverageDOT-required, included free

$0.60 / LB

DiscountsMilitary, student and senior

ASK WHEN BOOKING

No fuel fees, no stair fees, no mileage fees. The quote you book is the number you pay.

02 / STRAIGHT ANSWERS

Questions we get from Newport Beach

We shuttle. The large truck stages on a legal street off the island and a smaller vehicle runs the alley to your door, so the load only gets handled the way it would anyway. Worth knowing: the ferry carries three cars at a time and is not a truck route, so everything crosses on the Marine Avenue bridge. We look at the alley and the bridge approach before we give you a number, not after.

Two things, both before the day. Have Flexdolly added to your association's approved vendor list so the gate is not deciding anything at seven in the morning, and tell us who to send the certificate of insurance to. We carry $1M liability and $100K cargo and issue the COI on request, and we will give the association our USDOT number, CAL-T licensing and the vehicle details if they ask for them.

We start early. Balboa Boulevard and the metered lots fill through the middle of the day in summer, so a Peninsula or West Newport job is best loaded before that happens, and we run 24/7 including holidays to make that possible. Call the California line at (858) 733-0775 and we will build the start time around your street rather than around a dispatch board.

The deposit starts at $100, it is applied to the total rather than added to it, and it is refundable if you give us 48 hours' notice. Nothing else attaches to the estimate later: no fuel surcharge, no stair fee, no mileage fee, no material fee.

Yes. Orange County is covered by the same San Diego operation that started in 2020, one county south, reachable on (858) 733-0775. Same crews, same CAL-T licensed and insured company, same guaranteed price.

03 / THE BILL

The line items other movers add once the truck is loaded.

Same crew, same truck, same job — and this is every fee we don’t add to it. You see the number before you book, and that number is the one you pay.

Estimate

Included in your quote

Labor and the truckThe crew, the vehicle and the fuel to run it

INCLUDED

Blankets, shrink wrap and strapsOn everything, every time

INCLUDED

Dollies, ramps and hand toolsBrought to every job, never rented to you

INCLUDED

Basic coverageDOT-required, $0.60 per pound

INCLUDED

What we don’t add

Fuel surcharge

$0.00

Stair and elevator fee

$0.00

Long-carry fee

$0.00

Mileage fee

$0.00

Materials fee

$0.00

Before move day

DepositApplied to your total, refundable with 48 hours’ notice

$100+

Total due on move dayYour quoted price.
Nothing added.
04 / ON THE JOB

The crew that shows up on move day.

Flexdolly crew moving a cold plunge on a trailer
Cold plunge, loaded Specialty
Two Flexdolly team members in front of the slogan truck
Two of the crew On site
Two Flexdolly movers carrying furniture fully wrapped in pink shrink-wrap
Wrapped, then carried Protection
Flexdolly mover strapping a safe in front of the pink slogan truck
Strapped down Strap-down
Veteran-owned, U.S. Army, established 2020

Ownership

Veteran-owned and operated

Founder Nas served in the California Army National Guard while running the company.

Licensed and insured, USDOT #4329208

Licensed & insured

USDOT #4329208

$1M liability and $100K cargo coverage on every job we take.

The quote is the price, guaranteed 24/7

The guarantee

The quote is the price

Guaranteed in 60 seconds, and we answer 24/7 including holidays.

Track record

10,000+

Families moved

who hate moving, and hired us anyway

< 0.8%

Damage claim rate

pads and wrap on everything, every time

6+

Years in business

founded 2020 · now in 4 cities

4

Cities served

San Diego · Orange County · Austin · Dallas

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We cover Newport Beach and everything around it.

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