Portland Movers Since 2013, Founded By Russell Voss On One Promise: The Number Doesn’t Move

8 trucks, 12 people, zero subcontractors — every crew that walks into your home is on our payroll, not borrowed for the day. Denise Okafor answers most calls into the office, and whatever the walkthrough turns up — stairs, a long carry, a piano — gets folded into one number that day, the same number that’s on your invoice, wherever in Portland and the metro suburbs the job lands.

Russell writes every one of these himself the same day you send it — no call-center rep relaying your Portland move details secondhand.

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Russell Voss spent eight years as an in-home estimator for a large national van line, walking through houses and writing numbers that were supposed to be the price. Too often, they weren’t — a flight of stairs, a long carry from the curb, a fuel surcharge would show up on the invoice weeks later, and Russell was the one fielding the angry phone call. In 2013, he started A Affordable Movers on the opposite rule.

The Number Doesn’t Move

Whatever comes up on the walkthrough — stairs, a piano, a tight driveway — gets folded into one number that day. That number is what’s on the final invoice. No add-ons after the truck is loaded.

Who Actually Shows Up

  • Russell Voss owns the company, founded in 2013.
  • Denise Okafor runs the office and dispatch, on staff since 2016.
  • Tobias Kwan and Selena Marsh split crew-chief duties, on board since 2015 and 2018.

One Portland yard, eight trucks, twelve people on the payroll — nobody subcontracted in, nobody hired for a single Saturday. Whoever loads your furniture draws a paycheck from us directly.

2013The year Russell walked away from writing other companies’ walkthrough numbers and started his own
8Trucks, all titled to the company, none of them rented
12People on the payroll year-round, Saturdays included
$0Added to the price after the walkthrough number is written
Why The Number Never Moves After The Walkthrough

The Company Started Over A Number That Kept Growing

For years before 2013, Russell Voss estimated moves for a national van line, walking homes and writing honest numbers on the spot — only to watch dispatch and billing tack on fees by delivery day for a flight of stairs or a long carry that had been sitting in plain sight the whole time. Customers kept asking some version of the same question: why didn’t the number he quoted match the number on the invoice? Russell Voss quit and started A Affordable Movers in 2013 around one rule: whatever the walkthrough turns up gets built into the number that day, and that number is what shows up on the invoice.

The Walkthrough Number Is The Invoice Number

Russell or a crew chief walks the property, prices whatever the day already looks like — stairs, a long carry, a piano wedged onto a landing — and writes one number before he leaves. Nothing gets added later for something that was sitting in plain sight during the walkthrough.

A Phone Call Can’t See What The Walkthrough Sees

A third-floor walk-up in Northwest Portland, a gate code a Lake Oswego HOA never mentions, a piano jammed onto a Sellwood landing — none of that shows up over the phone. For anything inside the metro, Russell or a crew chief comes out and looks at it in person; for a longer haul, the same walkthrough happens over video first, before any number gets written down.

The Rain Gear Comes Out Before The First Storm

Nine months a year, mattress bags and doubled shrink wrap are just how a load goes together here, and the ramp gets tarped before anyone touches a box. A dresser that swells or a box spring that soaks through doesn’t un-happen once you notice it, so the plan is built around never letting it get wet in the first place — no rainy-day line item, because there isn’t supposed to be a rainy day.

Everyone On Your Truck Draws A Paycheck From Us

The eight trucks parked at our Portland yard every night belong to the company outright, not a rental fleet. Tobias Kwan leads one crew and Selena Marsh leads the other, and if a Saturday books up faster than expected, the fix is overtime for people already on payroll — not a stranger pulled in for the day.

Check Any Platform, Same Rating

Google, Yelp, Angi, Thumbtack — Whichever One You Trust

Some customers post a review the same afternoon the truck pulls away; others wait a week, until the boxes are unpacked and the furniture’s actually where it belongs. Check any of the four platforms below and the number holds steady either way.

Google
4.9
28+ reviews
Yelp
4.8
Recommended reviews
Angi
4.9
Top-rated pro
Thumbtack
4.7
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One Number. No Surprises. No Middleman.

You’re talking to the person who actually owns the trucks. Russell built this company on one rule: the number he gives you at the walkthrough is the number you sign for — no fuel surcharge, no stairs fee, no surprise tacked on after the fact.

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