On-Site Climate-Controlled Storage

Cole Reddick started Harper Transfer & Storage in 2015 after years managing a furniture-distribution warehouse near Hattiesburg, and the one thing he refused to build the company without was our own storage. Most local movers who offer to store your things are really just renting space at a self-storage lot across town and handing you a key — which is fine until August, when a non-climate-controlled steel unit in south Mississippi turns into an oven that can crack veneer, warp wood, and cook the internals of anything electronic sitting in it for a summer. We built our warehouse at 2204 Ellisville Blvd specifically so that never happens to anything we’re responsible for.

Everything that comes through our storage program stays on our own property, climate-controlled year-round, watched by the same crew that handles your move. We don’t sublet space to a third-party facility, and we don’t hand your furniture off to a self-storage company that has no idea what’s in the unit or how it needs to be handled. If it’s in our warehouse, it’s under our roof.

How Items Get Logged and Shelved

Nadia Fitch built the shelving and tagging system we still use today, back when she took over packing and fragile items in 2017. Every piece that comes into the warehouse gets tagged at the truck — customer name, move date, and a description specific enough that nobody’s opening three boxes to find the one with the lamp. Furniture gets shelved by category rather than stacked in a pile behind whatever came in that week, so a dresser that’s been sitting for six weeks is exactly as easy to pull as one that came in yesterday.

Boyd Lassiter signs off on everything going in or out. As lead crew foreman since 2016, he does a final check against the tag list before anything leaves the truck for a shelf, and again before anything leaves the shelf for a truck — which is the same two-person accountability most rented storage units simply don’t have, because nobody at a self-storage counter is checking your furniture against anything.

The Same Crew, In and Out

Here’s the part that actually matters when you’re the one waiting on your things: the crew that logs an item into our warehouse is the crew that pulls it back out. Nobody’s handing your furniture to a different team who’s never seen it before, and nobody’s digging through a unit trying to remember which boxes were yours. When your new place is ready, we pull the tags, load the truck, and deliver — the same process in reverse, run by people who already know exactly what they’re carrying.

Storage comes up on almost every kind of move we run. A closing date that slips a week, an apartment lease that starts before the old one ends, a downsizing move where a family needs time to decide what to keep, a long-distance relocation where the new house isn’t finished — in every one of those cases, the alternative to our warehouse is a rented unit you’d have to manage yourself, coordinate access to, and hope stays climate-controlled. Ours already is, and it’s already staffed by people who know your move.

• Climate-controlled year-round — no summer heat damage to upholstery, wood or electronics
• Tagged and logged by item at the time it’s packed, not sorted out later
• Signed off by our lead crew foreman on the way in and the way out
• Never subletted to a third-party self-storage facility — it stays on our own property

If your move has any kind of gap in it — a few days, a few weeks, or longer while you sort out a new place — call (601) 552-9034 and ask about warehouse storage. It’s the one part of the move we built the whole company around.