About Our MN & WI Crew
Family-run, based in Edina and Hudson, in it for the long haul.
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A mover from our Edina office will ring or text you back with the written number. Prefer to talk now? Call (888) 278-9005.
No spam. One written price, and you are never on the hook to book.
Quality Transfer & Storage is a family outfit, owned and worked right here on both banks of the St. Croix, one crew and one written price in place of a meter. These are the same faces that show up at your door on moving day.
- Written flat rate
- No hidden fees
- Licensed & insured
Home-built, owner-worked
Nate Halvorsen put Quality Transfer & Storage on the road with one truck, a pile of moving blankets, and one plain rule: quote a real number in writing and stand behind it, ice storm or heat wave. He grew up in the metro and had watched too many neighbors get billed by the hour and blindsided by a total nobody mentioned up front. So he built the reverse, a trained crew that rolls up on our own trucks, wraps every piece, and finishes on the exact number you signed, not a dollar over.
Even now there is no call center and no broker skimming a fee, only the same crew loading a downtown Minneapolis high-rise one morning and a Hudson lake home the next, Nate hauling boxes right there with them.
From one truck to two states
None of this came from advertising. We grew because the people we moved kept dialing us back.
- One truck, one ruleNate started with a single box truck and one promise: a real price in writing, kept to the dollar.
- Word got aroundCustomers kept rebooking and pointing neighbors our direction, and referrals filled the calendar quicker than any ad could have.
- Over the St. CroixWisconsin calls kept coming, so we stood up crews in Hudson and licensed the company on both banks of the river.
- Heated storage arrivedA warm, clean storage room followed, so a stretch between homes stayed simple even in a Minnesota February.
- Owner-worked stillFrom Minneapolis out to Eden Prairie and across to Menomonie, Nate is still on the jobs and still picks up the phone.
One written number vs. the hourly meter
Most crews up here bill by the hour and let the clock pile up your total. Here is the same move, done our way beside the usual way.
| What matters on move day | Quality Transfer & Storage | A typical hourly mover |
|---|---|---|
| Your price | One written figure, set and locked ahead of the day | An hourly rate on a clock that keeps counting |
| Who shows up | Our own background-checked, trained movers | Whatever crew happened to be dispatched |
| Winter plan | Salted walks, shrink-wrap, and fast loading | Usually left to chance |
| MN–WI border move | Licensed in both states, the crossing built into the price | Often an upcharge, or simply declined |
| Heavy or awkward pieces | Pianos and safes already inside the number | Tacked-on fees at the curb |
| The final bill | Exactly the figure you put your name to | Wherever the meter happens to stop |
What comes with every single job
- A written number you approve before anything is lifted
- Our own movers on the payroll, no brokers or day-labor
- Moving blankets, floor cloths, and shrink on all of it
- A set arrival window, with a call the minute it shifts
- Full licensing and insurance in Minnesota and Wisconsin
- Pianos, safes, and specialty pieces moved by our own crew
- Downtown COIs filed and freight elevators reserved ahead
- The number you signed at the finish, never a clock tally
“The price you put your name to is the price you pay. That is how it has worked since the first truck, and it is not about to change.”
Nate Halvorsen, ownerOur trucks. Our movers. Nobody in between.
Your move is never sold off to a broker, handed to day-labor, or dropped on a stranger you have never met. The people carrying your couch are on Nate’s payroll, and every truck at the curb is ours, lettered with our name, stocked, and serviced in our own shop out in Edina.
- On our payrollTrained, background-checked movers who load Minnesota and Wisconsin homes week in and week out.
- One crew start to finishThe same team loads, drives, unloads, and sets down, so nothing gets lost in a hand-off.
- Careful as a habitBlanket-wrapped furniture, runners over your floors, and door jambs padded before a single item moves.
Snow, two states, and lake-country roads, all planned for
A move up here comes with its own puzzles: a January driveway sheeted in ice, a load that has to clear customs of its own kind crossing the St. Croix into Wisconsin, and downtown towers wired into the skyways. We plan around every bit of it and still land your window.
Winter-ready crews
Salted walkways, shrink-wrapped furniture, and quick loading so nothing sits out in the cold or the wet snow.
MN–WI border moves
We run both sides of the St. Croix daily, so a move from Edina to Hudson is just another Tuesday.
Skyway & high-rise ready
Downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul condos, with the certificate of insurance filed and the elevator held ahead.
Why folks book us again
Serving the Twin Cities & western Wisconsin
Want a price you can build the whole move around?
We will send your written flat rate over from the Edina office, most often the same business day.
Call (888) 278-9005 Get my flat rate