About Our Rhode Island Crew
Family-run and North Kingstown-based, in it for the long run.
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No spam. One figure on paper, and whether you book is your decision.
MGM Moving & Storage is a family-run North Kingstown outfit, a single crew and a single figure on paper in place of the meter. Whoever picks up the phone is one of the same people who turn up at your door on move day.
- Written flat rate
- No hidden fees
- Licensed & insured
Built at home, run by the family
Bob got MGM Moving & Storage going with one truck, a pile of pads, and a single flat rule: write a real number down and stand behind it, no padding. A bay man to the core, he had seen too many neighbors run up on an hourly clock and stunned by a total nobody flagged. So he made the reverse his whole model: a trained crew arriving on our own trucks, padding each piece, and landing on the precise number you signed, not a dollar beyond.
Even now there is no call center and no broker skimming a fee, just the same crew emptying a Wickford colonial in the morning and a Newport historic by afternoon, Bob on the dolly alongside them and Jeanne holding down the office.
One box truck, then the whole bay
None of it came from advertising. We grew because Ocean State households we moved kept coming back to us.
- The first truckBob set out with one box truck and a single rule: a real price on paper, honored to the last dollar.
- The bay took noticeFolks came back and steered their neighbors our way, and plain word of mouth filled the calendar quicker than any ad managed.
- Across the bridgesThe phone kept ringing from Newport, Jamestown, and the East Bay, so we stretched our range across the entire state.
- Then came storageWe put in clean, dry storage, so a gap between homes stayed easy in any Ocean State season, and it earned its place in our name.
- Still family-runFrom Wickford across to Newport and Bristol, Bob is still on the trucks and Jeanne still picks up the phone.
One written number vs. the hourly meter
Most movers on the bay bill by the hour, then let the clock run your total up. Here is a single move, figured the MGM way next to how it normally plays out.
| What matters on move day | MGM Moving & Storage | A typical hourly mover |
|---|---|---|
| Your price | A set number nailed down before move day | However high the hourly meter climbs |
| Who shows up | Our own background-checked MGM crew | Whichever movers happened to be open |
| Shore and stairs | The shore and stair work built straight into the price | Often an upcharge at the curb |
| Island bridges | Crossings timed and folded into the number | Sometimes an extra travel charge |
| Heavy or awkward pieces | Pianos and safes counted in from the start | Surprise fees on move day |
| The final bill | Exactly the number you signed for | Wherever the meter happens to stop |
What comes with every single job
- A number on paper you approve before a thing is lifted
- Our own MGM crew on the books, never a broker or day-labor
- Blankets over the furniture, runners down the floors, shrink on the rest
- You get a set arrival window, and a phone call the second it moves
- Full licensing and insurance as a Rhode Island mover
- Pianos, safes, and oversized pieces moved by MGM crews alone
- Providence and Newport COIs lodged and elevators or docks held in advance
- The shore access and island crossings planned and priced up front
“The figure you sign is the figure you pay, and nothing gets rounded up. That has been the arrangement since the very first truck, and it is not changing.”
Bob, ownerOur trucks. Our movers. Nobody farmed out.
We never sell your job to a broker, hand it to day-labor, or pass it to a face you have never seen. Every mover hauling your sofa draws an MGM paycheck under Bob, and each truck at the curb belongs to us, painted with our name and serviced in our own Dry Bridge Road yard.
- MGM movers, on our booksTrained, background-checked crews on the bay’s homes and offices in every month of the calendar.
- The same faces start to finishOne crew loads, drives, unloads, and sets each piece, so nothing slips through a hand-off.
- Gentle by defaultQuilted furniture, runners down the halls, and padded jambs before anyone picks up the first box.
Wickford colonials, Newport walk-ups, island crossings, and four real seasons, all planned for
A move around Narragansett Bay comes with its own quirks: tight 18th-century lanes in Wickford village, three-story historic homes with no elevator in Newport, bridge crossings out to Jamestown and Aquidneck, and weather that swings from beach-house July to a January nor’easter. We plan around each of these and still hit the window we gave you.
Coast-ready
Salt-air shore homes and summer rentals, narrow Wickford lanes, and beach-road access handled with the right crew.
Historic walk-up savvy
Newport and East Side three-story historics, no-elevator carries and tight old stairwells, padded and planned ahead.
Every-season crews
Sanded walkways through a nor’easter, early starts in the summer heat, so your window holds whatever the bay throws at it.
Why folks book us again
Serving North Kingstown & Washington County
Want a number on paper you can build the whole Ocean State move around?
Your figure on paper leaves the Dry Bridge Road office, most often before the working day you ask is over.
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