Austin pulls a steady stream of Katy families chasing tech jobs, state agency work, or a kid headed to UT. The drive is about 165 miles up US-290 West through Hempstead and Brenham, straight into the capital — call it two hours and forty-five minutes with a loaded truck, easily inside a single day.
Kellan builds your Austin estimate from an actual walk-through or video survey, not a square-footage chart, so the number he writes is the number due when the truck backs up to your new place — no add-ons for a slow patch of two-lane highway near Giddings.
Marcus or Nadia runs the crew from your Katy driveway all the way to Austin. Whoever wraps your furniture at the start is still there setting it down at the finish — this move never changes hands partway up 290.
Katy → Austin — What It Runs
| Home Size | Flat-Rate Estimate | Usual Transit Time |
|---|---|---|
| Studio / 1BR | $1,100 | Same day |
| 2BR | $1,800 | Same day |
| 3BR+ | $2,700 | Same day to next morning |
Treat these numbers as a starting budget — Kellan locks in the binding figure once he’s walked through your home size and the access at both ends with you.
Moving Katy to Austin?
One employee crew — usually led by Marcus or Nadia on this stretch — handles both ends of the haul, from loading out of our FM 1463 yard to carrying it in at the other end
The crew that loads the truck in Katy is the same crew that rides the route and unloads it in Austin — nothing gets transferred to a different truck partway, there’s no reweigh at a scale, and no broker is splitting the job between two companies. Marcus and Nadia split most of these long hauls between them, and a run out to Denver gets the same handling as a same-day job across Katy.
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