Vintage brick fourplexes, courtyard apartments with their doors around a garden, and Sandy Boulevard slicing through the grid at its own stubborn angle: Kerns is a neighborhood of small buildings and frequent moves. Totes arrive free for all of them. From $97.
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Courtyard building? Tell us which door is yours and we'll find it.
Bin There, Tote That! delivers cleaned, sanitized moving totes to any Kerns address free of charge, whether that's a brick fourplex off the restaurant blocks, a courtyard apartment on a side street, or a first house near Sandy Boulevard's diagonal. Every order includes a hand truck, and pickup from your next address is free too. Two weeks, flat rates, locked: $97 to $257.
Kerns is a stepping-stone: people rent a vintage one-bedroom here, love it for a few years, then buy their first place, sometimes only a dozen blocks away. That means the neighborhood generates moves constantly, and most of them are small, close, and time-pressed. Totes were practically designed for that profile: delivered fast, packed fast, gone fast, with nothing left over to store in an apartment that never had storage anyway.
Crossing the neighborhood line? Kerns to anywhere in Portland is one flat rental, and so is the reverse trip. We drop the totes where you pack and fetch them where you unpack. Call or text (971) 402-0969 with both addresses and a date, and consider the logistics handled. Delivery lands where the packing happens; pickup happens where the unpacking ends.
What actually happens when you move in this particular corner of Northeast, in three parts.
The vintage fourplexes that give Kerns its look come with modest doorways, tight entry halls, and staircases that were never consulted about your couch. Boxes get scraped, dropped, and wedged. Totes hold their shape through every squeeze, and their molded handles give you a real grip at the exact moments the building tries to take it away.
Ground-floor unit facing the courtyard? Stage your packed stack inside the entry and roll it out in one pass.
Kerns courtyard apartments put their entrances around a shared garden rather than on the street, which is lovely until you're ferrying your life across it one load at a time. A dolly stacked with totes crosses pavers and lawn edges without drama, and nothing shifts inside a lidded tote the way it does in an open box on a bumpy path. The garden stays pretty; your dishes stay whole.
Tell us which courtyard door is yours when you book, and delivery lands at it instead of at the mailboxes.
A lot of Kerns departures are closings, and closings do not reschedule for anyone. When keys change hands on a fixed day, you want packing gear that shows up on schedule and never needs assembly. Totes arrive ready, your kitchen goes in without a tape gun, and the whole system leaves again when the boxes-in-the-corner phase would normally begin.
Pack plates vertically, like records, with a towel between them; a rigid tote makes that trick actually safe.
The standard four steps from how it works, with local footnotes.
Address, unit, move date. If your building has a courtyard entrance or an alley door, say so; we like arriving at the right one.
We show up in the agreed window with your cleaned totes and the hand truck, and we bring them to the door where packing starts, courtyard crossings included.
Enough time to pack a fourplex flat gradually, move on your fixed date, and unpack without racing anyone.
We pick up from the new address anywhere in the metro. No flattening, no recycling run, no storage problem.
Kerns moves cluster around two calendars: lease endings at the month's turn and house closings scattered through it. Renters should book when notice goes in; buyers should book the day the closing date firms up. Either way, earlier booking means better delivery windows, and midweek slots stay open longest. If your move straddles a rainy stretch, and from October to May it will, nothing about the schedule needs to change; the lids were built for exactly that forecast.
The one-bedroom-to-first-house move is the signature Kerns story. Fifty totes usually covers it, the dolly earns its keep on both porches, and pickup at the new place is free.
Fourplex and courtyard tenants move often and pack small. Ten or twenty-five totes, a tidy stack by the door, and the whole move fits in an afternoon, deposit walk-through included.
Two apartments becoming one household means two pickups' worth of stuff and strong opinions about whose pans survive. Identical totes keep the merge organized, and the duplicates sort themselves out at unpacking.
Kerns borders Buckman across Burnside and the Lloyd District to the west. Moves across those lines are one flat price, both ends free.
The bordering neighborhoods, each with its own delivery page and its own quirks worth knowing.
Kerns is hemmed in by busy edges, Sandy Boulevard cutting through on the diagonal, Burnside running along the south, the Lloyd towers rising to the west, and quiet blocks in the middle. We deliver to all of it, and to every neighborhood it touches, with the same flat packages and free pickup wherever the move ends. Cross-neighborhood moves are the norm here, not the exception, and the pricing was built with that in mind.
A vintage one-bedroom has nowhere to store forty dead boxes, and the recycling bin holds about four. That math is the short version; the full comparison is the long one.
| Cardboard | Our Totes | |
|---|---|---|
| Getting them | Shop, haul, assemble | Delivered free |
| In the rain | Soggy, collapsing | Sealed and dry |
| Dolly | Buy your own | Included free |
| Afterward | A pile to get rid of | We pick them up |
The rates are the same from the fourplexes to the first houses: four package sizes, flat and locked. The pricing page matches sizes to homes.
All packages: 2-week rental, free delivery & pickup, standard dolly included.
Sanitized totes, free delivery, free pickup. Packages from $97.
Yes. Every block from the Banfield down to Burnside and from the river grid out past the restaurant streets gets free delivery and free pickup. Fourplexes, courtyard buildings, single houses, new mixed-use apartments over storefronts: if you can receive a stack of totes, we'll bring one. The hand truck comes standard, and pickup from your next address costs nothing either.
We make it quick. Delivery is a short stop, not an occupation, so even the busy blocks near the 28th Avenue strip work fine; we find legal curb, roll the totes to your door, and clear out. For moving day itself, pack the totes in advance so your truck needs the curb for minutes, not hours. Uniform stacks load in a fraction of the time loose boxes do, which is the polite way to borrow a busy block.
Talk to us, because dates slip in real estate and we know it. The standard rental is two weeks, which covers most Kerns moves with room to spare, and extensions are one of our add-ons. Call or text (971) 402-0969 as soon as the timeline wobbles and we'll adjust the pickup.
Usually 25 totes for $127. Kerns one-bedrooms are compact but rarely minimal; built-ins and closets hold more than they look like they hold. Ten totes at $97 suits a true studio, and if you open a closet mid-pack and regret your choices, extras are easy to add. First houses generally step up to 50 totes for $197, which covers the garage discoveries too.
They do. The lids seal, the plastic doesn't wick, and rain rolls off instead of soaking in, which matters most during the curb wait between your door and the truck. We've delivered through every month of Portland weather, and the drizzle has yet to win an argument with a tote lid.
Tell us about your move and we'll take it from there. Totes and a hand truck, delivered free, picked up free.
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Bin There, Tote That!
Serving the Portland, OR & Vancouver, WA metro areas
Call or text (971) 402-0969
