Movers in Metairie, LA

Cross the 17th Street Canal on Veterans Memorial Blvd or Airline Hwy and you’re in Metairie, the biggest close-in suburb our crews visit outside Orleans Parish. A lot of Tulane and Loyola students end up here once they’re tired of Uptown rent, and Jefferson Parish’s dense apartment complexes make Metairie one of our busiest college-move zones. Fast Affordable College Student Movers has been running trucks across that parish line since 2017, and we know which complexes have loading zones that fill up fast on the first of the month.

Apartments, family homes, and everything between

Metairie is a mixed bag: garden-style apartment complexes along Veterans and West Esplanade sit a few blocks from established family neighborhoods with driveways and garages. That means our local moving crews adjust the plan on the spot — a third-floor walk-up needs different gear than a single-story ranch house. Dispatch Lead Marcus Guidry routes around the worst of the Veterans Blvd rush-hour backups so your move window doesn’t get eaten by traffic, which matters a lot on the first of the month when half the complex is moving at once.

We see plenty of roommate groups splitting a three-bedroom apartment near West Esplanade, and just as many single grad students moving into a studio near Causeway. Both jobs run through the same crew, just scaled differently — a two-person team with a smaller truck for a studio, a full crew for a shared unit with three sets of furniture arriving from three different directions.

Fast Affordable College Student Movers quotes each job based on load size, not a flat per-suburb rate, so you’re not paying apartment-complex prices for a one-room move.

No streetcar, so plan around the car culture

Unlike Uptown, Metairie runs on cars, not the streetcar line, which changes how we stage a move. Parking permits and reserved loading spots matter more here than curb access does closer to campus. If you’re bringing a full apartment’s worth of furniture instead of a dorm room, ask about full-service packing — it’s the difference between a two-hour move and a six-hour one.

We also handle residential moving for grad students and staff settling into Metairie’s family-home side of the market, where garages and driveways make loading easier but the homes themselves usually hold more furniture.

Storage between semesters

Plenty of students go home for the summer and don’t want to haul furniture back and forth twice. Our summer storage option lets you drop everything with us in May and have it back in your new Metairie apartment before August move-in, no second truck rental required. Check our reviews from other Jefferson Parish clients, read more about our crew, or head to get a quote for your move date.