The big national outfits quote a studio like it owns three bedrooms, then groan when the answer is one couch and a mattress. That gap is exactly where 1 Man 1 Van lives. Danny Cruz grew up in Orlando, started this company in 2013 with a single van, and built it around the small moves everyone else treats as an afterthought: studios, one-bedrooms, a lone armoire that won’t fit a sedan.
- Orlando-run since2013, founded by Danny Cruz
- CredentialsFDACS, USDOT/MC authority
- CrewOur own W-2 movers, our own vans
- QuoteOne flat number, sized to your unit
How 1 Man 1 Van Clears an Orlando High-Rise
Downtown towers around Lake Eola and the lofts in Thornton Park hand out one freight elevator and a fixed window, and they don’t bend. Miss the slot and the front desk reschedules you, not us. Here’s the order our crew runs so that never happens:
- Claim the elevator first. Ahead of the date, we nail down your reserved freight-elevator slot and the exact door the building wants the van pulled up to.
- File the certificate of insurance. Your management office gets our COI, named to the property, days ahead, so security waves the crew through instead of stalling them in the lobby.
- Pad, then haul. Hall runners go down, elevator quilts go up, corner guards go on, and only then does anything start moving, all inside your booked block.
Every apartment job lands as one flat written figure tied to the actual unit, so a studio carries a studio’s cost and nothing balloons after the truck is loaded. A studio runs $350 to $560 and a one-bedroom $560 to $920, with floor count and access already baked in.
- Downtown and Lake Eola high-rises with timed freight-elevator windows
- Mills 50 and College Park bungalow conversions with steep, narrow stairs
- UCF-area student units out in Avalon Park and Waterford Lakes
- Lake Nona and Winter Garden condos and townhomes under HOA move-in rules
Scuff the lobby and the bill is yours
Most Orlando buildings push the cost of a dinged elevator cab, a gouged hallway, or a scratched lobby floor straight onto the resident who booked the move. Our movers blanket every one of those shared stretches, so the building’s fine print never turns into a line on your ledger.
Walk-Ups, HOAs, and Curb Space Around Central Florida
✓ Our crew, our trucks
- The voice on the line is Danny, or a teammate at his desk — never some phone bank
- Come move day, the bill you hand over equals that one written figure down to the dollar
- The same 1 Man 1 Van crew loads and unloads, every time
- Coverage runs to $1M on the load, and your property office gets a certificate the same day
- Claims stay in-house — Danny signs off himself
× Broker chain
- Your details get passed around a phone room, then sold off downstream
- Quote rebilled at delivery for “extras”
- Each visit, a truck you have never seen pulls up with a crew you do not know
- Generic certificate, COI is a fight
- “Not our crew” runaround on damage claims
Plenty of Orlando renting happens nowhere near an elevator. The 1920s bungalows carved into flats across Mills 50 and College Park come with cramped staircases and zero loading dock. We send the headcount plus straps and stair dollies to ease a sleeper sofa down a tight turn without gouging the wall or the furniture.
Out in the master-planned side of town, Lake Nona condos and Winter Garden townhomes run on HOA move-in rulebooks, designated entrances, and their own certificate demands. We read those rules before move day and, downtown, we grab a legal loading zone early so nobody finishes the morning peeling a parking ticket off the windshield.
What rides along with every 1 Man 1 Van apartment or condo booking:
- Your freight-elevator window and parking spot locked with the building or HOA up front
- A certificate of insurance lodged with the office, naming your Orlando building
- Padding inside the elevator cab, floor runners along each hallway, and shields over the lobby tile
- A stair crew geared up for Mills 50 and College Park walk-ups
- Studios and single items genuinely welcome, never waved off as too small
One armoire or a full one-bedroom, a Thornton Park tower or a UCF student flat, Danny’s W-2 crew shows up with the right gear and a number that fits the unit. Dial (888) 711-4778 to put your Orlando date on the calendar.
