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Apartment & Condo Moving in Champaign-Urbana

Campus high-rises, downtown walk-ups, and the semester flip, paperwork and all

Certificate filed, elevator held, and a crew chief who's worked the Campustown and Green Street towers building by building.

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household-goods license

I’m Wes Kuhlman, and I run Nu Day Moving. Apartments come with their own headaches — a lone working elevator, a leasing office that keeps the dock locked until a certificate of insurance is in hand, a move-out deadline that couldn’t care less about your schedule. In a college town, a heap of them stack onto one weekend. We’ve been navigating these buildings since 2015.

Paperwork squared before load day

Campustown high-rises and the newer Green Street towers rarely open a dock without a COI filed and an elevator window booked. Paige Sattler gets the property manager on the line, has the certificate drafted to their exact wording, and locks the elevator slot so your crew spends the hour carrying, not loitering in the lobby.

Crew Rate Typical unit
2 movers + truck $135/hr Studios and 1BR units
3 movers + truck $185/hr 2BR and up, upper-floor walk-ups

Flat rates by unit type

Unit Flat rate
Ground-floor studio $395 – $535
1BR in an elevator high-rise $490 – $670
2BR third-floor walk-up $800 – $1,085
Condo with a parking-garage entry $630 – $915
Certificate of insurance for the building Free of charge

Pads, dollies, and shrink-wrap come with every apartment job at no separate line, alongside cargo coverage up to $1,000,000 per shipment. A COI has never once shown up as a charge on one of our bills.

The August and May campus flip

Green Street, the PAR and FAR dorm corridor, and the Ikenberry high-rises all cycle over inside a handful of frantic days each semester, then flip back the other direction come spring. Marcus Tiller keeps the Campustown calendar, and he’ll tell you flat out which complexes funnel every truck through a single gate and which meter the freight elevator in twenty-minute slices.

Ahead of your date, he’ll already have nailed down:

  • The certificate of insurance, issued to your leasing office at no charge
  • A reserved freight-elevator window so the crew isn’t waiting on it
  • The right dock or gate entry for buildings that only allow one
  • A game plan for the semester dates that book out first

Iced stairs, flat weekend pricing

A January walk-up on the third floor means the exterior stairs are sheeted in ice, so our crew hauls traction mats and ice-melt right through February. And since a big share of lease turnovers hit a Friday night or Saturday, weekend slots bill at the identical hourly rate you’d pay on a Wednesday. No stomach for boxing during finals? Hand it to full-service packing. Caught between lease dates? Short-term storage holds your things. Trading up to a house? Local moving is your page, and the moving calculator hands you a figure right now.

Already Part of Your Flat Rate

Everything listed here rides along with the job as standard — none of it ever reappears as a surprise line on your bill.

  • A certificate of insurance issued to your leasing office at no cost
  • $135/hr for two movers, $185/hr for three, one-hour minimum
  • Freight-elevator windows and dock access booked ahead of the date
  • A crew that knows Campustown, Green Street, and dorm-corridor building rules
  • Traction mats and ice-melt for iced winter walk-up stairs
  • Pads, dollies, and shrink-wrap built into the rate
  • A flat quote written before your scheduled move date
  • Cargo coverage up to $1,000,000 per shipment

What Champaign Customers Say

★ Google
★★★★★

“Cant show my gratitude enough for these two gentlemen here. Shay & Ben handled the everything from start to finished. Incredible work/very professional !”

Bryan C.
Green Street · local move
★ Google
★★★★★

“Christian, Alfonso, and team were wonderful to work with. They were communicative, punctual, and efficient. They took a lot of care while moving our belongings, and the rate was fair. We would definitely recommend them to others in need of movers.”

Griffin F.
Downtown Urbana · local move
★ Google
★★★★★

“These guys were great! I called last minute because my help had to leave and they sent some guys over within a few hours. Moved some large/heavy items from the upstairs of the old house into the upstairs of the new house. Would have really been in trouble without these guys. Very impressed.”

Matthew A.
Downtown Urbana · walk-up move

Common Questions

Are you a moving company?
Yes — Nu Day Moving is a fully licensed and insured Champaign, IL moving company running our own trucks and uniformed crew, with an Illinois Commerce Commission household-goods license and US DOT and MC authority.
My Green Street tower won't let movers in without a COI — can you produce one?
We can, at no charge. Paige routes it to your property manager, usually inside a day, spelling out whatever coverage limits and additional-insured language the building calls for.
Are you able to actually hold a freight-elevator slot at a Campustown high-rise?
We line one up on nearly every tower move. Pass along the management contact and we'll claim whatever window they assign, so the crew rolls in ready to load instead of standing around.
Does hauling everything up three flights with no elevator cost extra?
It's folded into your flat quote from the outset, because we ask about floor and elevator access while pricing the job. Nothing about the stairs surfaces as an add-on come move day.
The whole complex empties out the same week in August — how do you cope with that?
Marcus keeps the campus calendar and reserves those turnover weekends well ahead with extra crews on deck. Book as far out as you can manage; the semester-change dates are always the first gone.
Do you charge more to move on a weekend?
Not a cent. Evenings and weekends run at our everyday hourly rate, so a Saturday move-out lands at the same price as a midweek one on our board.
Why Choose Us

Four Reasons Champaign County / East Central Illinois Trusts Nu Day Moving

Movers on our own payroll, a flat rate you approve before we load, and crews who know Champaign-Urbana streets and stairwells inside out.

In-House Crew & Trucks

Your belongings stay on Nu Day Moving trucks with our own W-2, background-checked movers — nothing subcontracted, nothing handed to day labor.

Licensed & On File

Illinois Commerce Commission household-goods license and US DOT and MC authority, with our own insurance covering the job from first box to last.

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Signed Flat Rate

You okay a binding written price before the truck loads — no hourly meter, no charges added at the curb.

Rated Across the Twin Cities

5★ average from verified Champaign County customers.

Our Full Range of Moving Services

Whatever’s on the truck, a local Champaign crew takes care of it — every job on a flat rate you approve up front.

Local Moves

Flat-rate crews anywhere across Champaign, Urbana and Champaign County — written price before we load.

  • Blankets and shrink-wrap included
  • We take furniture apart and rebuild it
  • A signed flat price with nothing tacked on
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Long-Distance Moves

Binding written estimates for interstate jobs, one crew and one truck the whole way under our US DOT and MC authority — snowbird south runs included.

  • A single binding figure in writing
  • Guaranteed room on our own truck
  • One crew from I-57 pickup to drop-off
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Apartment & Condo

Built for Campustown high-rises and Green Street student complexes with freight-elevator and COI logistics handled.

  • Campustown high-rises and tight stairs
  • COI to your leasing office same day
  • Right-sized for Green Street walk-ups
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Packing & Unpacking

Our crew wraps the whole house a day ahead so move day is just loading.

  • We bring the boxes and the supplies
  • Everything tagged room by room
  • Fragiles wrapped with extra care
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Storage Coordination

A dedicated spot to bridge the gap between your closing dates or U-of-I lease turnover.

  • Hold it days or months, your call
  • We retrieve and redeliver on your date
  • Climate-controlled space when needed
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