Marietta, GA · Cobb County · 30060 · 30064 · 30008
Marietta Movers Who Plan Around the Square, the Rail Line and the Loop
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- Licensed Georgia Household Goods Carrier
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- Hourly from $160 · crew + truck
- 2.5-hour weekday minimum · 3 hours weekends, same-day, 25+ miles
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LIOO Moving packs, loads and moves houses, apartments and offices across Marietta. It is a county seat built around a railroad: the CSX main line runs a block west of the Square, five streets cross it at grade, and the city's oldest houses sit on both sides of it. Add a nine-mile parkway loop, two I-75 exits that feed it, and a Square that closes streets for festivals through the fall, and the route matters as much as the crew size. We plan the approach, the curb and the carry before the truck leaves.
LIOO Moving does local moves in Marietta, GA — ZIP 30060, 30064 and 30008. Crew and truck are billed hourly from $160 on a 2.5-hour weekday minimum, three hours on weekends, same-day bookings and moves of 25 miles or more. Most Marietta moves run 3 to 8 hours. Call (888) 611-5351.
LIOO Moving is a licensed, insured Georgia Household Goods Carrier handling historic homes around the Square, apartments along Franklin Gateway and Delk Road, and family houses out Dallas Highway. Home size and access set the hours. The CSX main line runs a block west of the Square and five streets cross it at grade; the Marietta Parkway loop passes under it and meets I-75 at Exit 263 and Exit 265, so west-side addresses are routed on the loop. Marietta City Schools start August 4 and Cobb County schools August 3, which puts the family-move peak in late May through July.
Page updated 30 September 2026 · Rates confirmed September 2026 · Reviewed by Tavion McCullough, Operations Lead
Sources: City of Marietta (National Register Historic Districts; HarvestFest, Tree Lighting, Pilgrimage event pages) · Marietta Daily Journal and CSX crossing notices (grade crossings at Kennesaw Ave, Polk St, Mill St, Whitlock Ave, Waverly Way) · Marietta City Schools and Cobb County School District 2026–27 calendars · MUST Ministries Gobble Jog · Marietta Cobb Museum of Art (Chalktoberfest) · building address verified to the street · LIOO Moving published rates and minimums.
What we handle
Moving Services in Marietta
These are the service lines we run inside the city ZIPs. All of them are billed on the same published hourly rates, set out in full further down this page.
Local moving
Point-to-point moves inside Cobb and across metro Atlanta, billed hourly by crew size. Every Marietta job is planned off the crossing sheet above: which side of the tracks the house sits on, which loop exit the truck takes, and where it can legally stand once it arrives.
Apartment and loft moves
Brumby Lofts downtown, the garden communities along Franklin Gateway and Delk Road, and the student turnover around KSU Marietta and Life University. We confirm the entrance, the elevator or the stair run, and any insurance certificate with the office before crew day.
Full-house residential
Whitlock Avenue, Burnt Hickory Road and the Dallas Highway side, where a basement and a bonus room can hold as much as two extra bedrooms. We size the crew and the truck to the house rather than to the bedroom count in the listing.
Packing and disassembly
Full or partial packing, and the disassembly of beds, tables and sectionals that will not clear an original doorway or a half-landing turn in one piece. Decided during the estimate, not on the porch on move morning.
Labor-only loading
You supply the truck, the POD or the container and we load or unload it. On a Church-Cherokee street with no driveway, tell us where the container is going to sit before it is dropped, because the street is often the only option.
Storage moves
Into a unit you rent and back out on move-in day, loaded in reverse so the first thing you need is the last thing in. LIOO is the crew and the truck, not the facility; the unit stays in your name.
Address decoder
Which Marietta Is Your Address In?
Most addresses that say Marietta are not in the City of Marietta. The post office gives the name to a wide stretch of unincorporated Cobb County, and the difference changes the school calendar you move around, the roads the truck uses and which of our pages has your plan.
| ZIP | What is there | Where we plan it |
|---|---|---|
| 30060 | The Square, all five historic districts, Wellstar Kennestone, the Franklin Gateway apartments | This page |
| 30064 | Whitlock Avenue west to Dallas Highway, Burnt Hickory Road, the Kennesaw Mountain side | This page |
| 30008 | South Marietta along Powder Springs Street and Austell Road | This page |
| 30066 · 30067 | Shared. Canton Road and the Delk and Powers Ferry apartment corridors near I-75 are Marietta work; farther east is East Cobb | This page near I-75 |
| 30062 · 30068 | Marietta on the envelope, East Cobb on the ground: Johnson Ferry, Lower Roswell, the Walton, Pope and Lassiter zones | Our East Cobb page |
Five crossings, one loop
The Marietta Crossing & Loop Sheet
The old Western & Atlantic line, CSX today, carries freight through downtown on double track. Five streets cross it at grade within a few blocks of the Square: Kennesaw Avenue, Polk Street, Mill Street, Whitlock Avenue and Waverly Way. A single stalled train has blocked four of them at once, which cuts the Square off from everything west of it. A loaded 26-foot truck waiting at a crossing arm is time on the clock nobody planned for.
The way around is the Marietta Parkway, which locals still call the 120 Loop. It rings downtown and meets I-75 twice: Exit 263 on the south side, Exit 265 on the north. Both halves of the loop pass under the rail line, so they keep moving when the crossings do not. For any address west of the tracks, the loop is our default route.
| Address type | Side of the tracks | Approach from I-75 | Where the truck sits | What changes the plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitlock Avenue and Northwest Marietta districts Whitlock Ave, McDonald St, Kennesaw Ave, Maple Ave | West | Exit 263 or 265, then the loop under the rail line to the west side. Whitlock, Polk Street and Kennesaw Avenue are reached from there. | The driveway where one exists. Otherwise a side street: Whitlock carries Dallas Highway commuter traffic and the travel lane is not a staging spot. | Weekday rush on Whitlock, a stopped train if anyone routes through the Square |
| Church-Cherokee district and Brumby Lofts | East, north of the Square | Exit 265, North Marietta Parkway. Cherokee Street runs one-way north and Church Street one-way south, so the truck has to arrive on the right one. | On the street in front of the house; at Brumby, wherever the leasing office assigns | The Pilgrimage home tour runs shuttles through these blocks December 4 to 6 |
| Washington Avenue district and the east-side streets Washington Ave, Lawrence St, Roswell St | East | Either loop exit, then Fairground Street or Roswell Street | Curb in front, cones out early | Weekday courthouse and county-office traffic east of the Square |
| Atlanta-Frasier district and the blocks south of the Square | East, south of the Square | Exit 263, South Marietta Parkway to Atlanta Street | Street side on the older blocks; alley or garage side at the newer townhome communities | Narrow townhome lanes that a 26-foot truck cannot turn in |
| Square-facing storefronts and upstairs offices | East, against the tracks | Exit 265 and in from the north, staying off the grade crossings | Timed curb spaces on the four Park Square streets around Glover Park | Festival closures, the Saturday farmers market from 9 to noon, First Friday Art Walk from 5 to 9 |
| Garden-style apartments Franklin Gateway, Delk Road, Powers Ferry Road | Not a factor | Exit 261, Delk Road | As close to the breezeway as the lot allows; expect a long carry from the back buildings | End-of-month turnover, gate codes, third-floor walk-ups |
| West Marietta houses Dallas Highway, Burnt Hickory Road | West | Exit 263 and the south loop to Whitlock and Dallas Highway; from the north, Exit 269 and Barrett Parkway | The driveway, nose out | Weekend park traffic around Kennesaw Mountain, cul-de-sac turning room |
Tell us the street when you call and we will tell you which row you are in.
Built before driveways
Moving a Historic Home Near Marietta Square
Marietta has five National Register historic districts, and they surround the Square on every side: Northwest Marietta and Whitlock Avenue west of the tracks, Church-Cherokee to the north, Washington Avenue to the east and Atlanta-Frasier to the south. The houses run from antebellum to Victorian to early bungalows. They were built before moving trucks, and often before driveways.
Original staircases
Steeper and tighter than modern stairs, with a half-landing turn that a queen box spring or an armoire will not make in one piece. We send enough crew to hoist and turn, and we take apart what has to come apart.
Plaster and old trim
Plaster cracks where drywall dents, and original woodwork is not a quick patch. Door jambs, banisters, newel posts and hallway corners get padded before the first piece moves.
No driveway, no rear access
On many of these blocks the truck stages on the street under mature trees, and the carry runs up a front walk and porch steps. We work out the legal curb position and the path before move day.
Tell us the age of the house and whether it has a driveway. Those two answers set the crew size faster than the bedroom count does, and crew size is what moves the rate: $160 an hour for two movers and the truck, $200 for three. Heavy or fragile pieces go through our furniture moving crews; a piano goes to our piano movers, and a safe or a pool table to our heavy-item crews. Pianos, gun safes and any single item over 300 pounds carry a $100 specialty fee. Items that heavy are not carried up or down a full flight of stairs, with a five-step maximum, so tell us at booking if one is going up a porch or an original staircase. Our moving preparation guide lists what cannot go on the truck at all.
Brumby, the garden corridors and the campuses
Lofts, Walk-Ups and Student Turnover
Brumby Lofts, the former Brumby chair factory at 111 North Marietta Parkway, holds 167 apartments on four floors a short walk from the Square. It is the one large multifamily building downtown. A move there starts with the leasing office: which entrance, which elevator, and whether they want a certificate of insurance on file first.
Most apartment work in the city is different. Along Franklin Gateway, Delk Road and Powers Ferry Road the communities are garden-style: two- and three-story buildings, open breezeway stairs, parking lots that wrap the property. There is no elevator to book. The variables are the floor, the distance from the nearest legal truck spot to the stairwell, and the gate. A third-floor unit at the back of a complex can add an hour over a ground-floor unit by the entrance.
Kennesaw State's Marietta campus on South Marietta Parkway and Life University on Barclay Circle add a student cycle, with turnover bunched in August, December and May. Small loads with tight windows fit our apartment moving crews, and if you have rented your own truck, loading and unloading help runs on the same minimums — 2.5 hours on weekdays, three on weekends, same-day bookings and moves of 25 miles or more.
30064 and the two calendars
West Marietta Houses and the Two School Calendars
West of the Square, 30064 runs out Whitlock Avenue and Dallas Highway toward Kennesaw Mountain. The housing is four- and five-bedroom homes on cul-de-sacs, usually with a finished basement and a full garage. Those are whole-house moves. A basement and a bonus room can hold as much as two extra bedrooms, so we size the crew and truck to the house and not to the listing.
A Marietta address lands in one of two school systems. Inside the city limits it is Marietta City Schools, which started August 4 this year and finishes May 26, 2027. Outside them it is the Cobb County School District, with an August 3 start and a May 19 finish. Summer demand begins the week the county lets out, and city families follow a week later. Late May through July dates go first. These larger jobs are handled by our full-house residential crews.
Twenty or thirty years in one house
Downsizing Out of a Long-Held Family Home
Many moves here are residents leaving a house they have owned for twenty or thirty years. The work is mostly sorting: what goes to the new place, what goes to family, what goes to storage. We pack room by room at the pace the household sets, label by destination, and can split the load across more than one stop. Full or partial packing is quoted with the move, and our senior moving crews handle the day itself.
Suite moves, not tower moves
Offices and Practices in the County Seat
Marietta's commercial base is law offices and county-government tenants around the Square, medical and dental practices near Wellstar Kennestone Hospital on Church Street, and small businesses along Roswell Street, Whitlock Avenue and Cobb Parkway. These are suite moves, not tower moves. They run after hours or on a weekend, with files and equipment labeled by room and workstation so the office opens on schedule.
Square-facing suites add the curb rules in the sheet above, so we load those early and avoid event days. Galleria high-rises and anything near the stadium belong to our Cumberland office and high-rise page. Scope and process are on the commercial moving page.
October 2026 to January 2027
Dispatch Calendar: October 2026 to January 2027
These are the dates that change curb access near the Square or pull demand forward. We refresh the table each season.
| Date | What is happening | What it does to a move |
|---|---|---|
| Every Saturday, 9 to noon | Marietta Square Farmers Market | Mill Street side of the Square is busy on foot; load elsewhere or start after noon |
| Fri Oct 2 · Nov 6 · Dec 4 | First Friday Art Walk, 5 to 9 pm | Finish Square-side unloads by late afternoon |
| Sat–Sun Oct 10–11 | Chalktoberfest, with chalk artists working on the streets around the Square | Street closures around the Square all weekend; no curb access on the Park Square streets |
| Sat Oct 17, 9 to 5 | HarvestFest and Scarecrows in the Square, Glover Park | Second straight Saturday with festival parking pressure on the downtown decks |
| Mon–Fri Nov 23–27 | Thanksgiving break, both school systems | Family moves cluster early in the week |
| Thu Nov 26, from 7:30 am | Gobble Jog, Thanksgiving morning, with more than 10,000 runners starting at the Square | Park Square streets closed through the morning; not a move morning downtown |
| Thu Dec 3, 4 to 8 pm | Tree lighting and Santa's arrival, Glover Park | Square closed to loading from mid-afternoon |
| Fri–Sun Dec 4–6 | Marietta Pilgrimage Christmas Home Tour, Church-Cherokee neighborhood | Shuttle buses and foot traffic on the district's residential streets; avoid if your address is on the tour blocks |
| Dec 21 through New Year | Holiday break; the city system resumes January 4 and the county January 5 | Short mid-year window for family moves |
Truist Park and The Battery are in Cumberland, not Marietta. Game-day timing for I-75 south of Delk Road is planned from that page.
Hourly, and what moves it
What a Move Costs Here
Local moves are billed hourly with the crew and truck included, on a 2.5-hour weekday minimum — three hours on weekends, same-day bookings and moves of 25 miles or more. These are typical totals by home size.
Hourly rates, crew and truck included
- $400–$700→Studio2 movers
- $480–$900→1 bedroom2 movers
- $700–$1,300→2 bedroom3 movers
- $1,000–$1,800→3 bedroom3–4 movers
- $1,200–$2,400+→4 bedroom and up4–6 movers
- Hourly · same minimumsLabor-only loading help2–3 movers
What sets the hours in Marietta
In Marietta three things move the hours. A historic house adds protection time and slow stair work. A back-building walk-up adds carry distance. A west-side house with a basement adds volume. Tell us which one you have and the estimate will reflect it. The rate and crew size are confirmed in writing before move day.
Actual costs vary based on inventory, stairs, elevator use, carry distance, and truck access. A 25% reservation deposit holds the date and is credited toward the final bill. Released-value protection of $0.60 per pound is included; full-value protection can be elected before the job.
From the county seat
Where Moves From Here Usually Go
As the county seat, Marietta sits in the middle of Cobb's move patterns. These are the corridors we run most from here.
Smyrna townhomes and first houses
South on Atlanta RoadKennesaw and the Barrett Parkway area
North on Cobb ParkwayWoodstock
Up I-575 from Exit 268Roswell across the river
East on GA-120Vinings
Down the hillPowder Springs
Southwest on Powder Springs Roadintown Atlanta
I-75 south
Short notice after a closing date moved? Our same-day crews take jobs here when the schedule has room. All city-page moves are within Georgia.
What Marietta callers ask
Common Questions
Can the moving truck get stuck behind a train near Marietta Square?
Yes, if it is routed through the Square. Five streets cross the CSX line at grade just west of it, and a stopped train can block several at once. For addresses west of the tracks we come in on the Marietta Parkway loop, which passes under the rail line, so a train does not hold up the truck.
Which I-75 exit does the crew use for a downtown Marietta address?
Exit 263 for South Marietta Parkway or Exit 265 for North Marietta Parkway, depending on which side of the Square you are on. Exit 261 at Delk Road serves the Franklin Gateway and Powers Ferry apartments. West Marietta addresses from the north use Exit 269 and Barrett Parkway.
My address says Marietta. Am I in Marietta City Schools or Cobb County, and does it change when I should move?
Only addresses inside the city limits are in Marietta City Schools. Everything else with a Marietta address is Cobb County School District. For 2026–27 the county finishes May 19 and the city finishes May 26, so county families hit the summer schedule a week sooner. If you want a date before June, book by early spring.
Can you move me on a festival weekend on the Square?
Away from the Square, yes. On the Square itself, not during Chalktoberfest on October 10 and 11, when the surrounding streets are closed. For HarvestFest on October 17 and the December 3 tree lighting we would schedule a Square-side job for another day or finish before setup begins. A few blocks out, the only effect is fuller parking decks.
Where does the truck park on Whitlock Avenue or a Church-Cherokee street with no driveway?
On Whitlock we use the driveway when there is one and a side street when there is not, because the avenue carries through traffic. In Church-Cherokee the truck stages at the curb in front of the house. Cherokee Street is one-way north and Church Street one-way south, so the approach is planned to put the loading door on the house side.
How do moves work at Brumby Lofts or a garden apartment on Delk Road?
At Brumby Lofts we confirm the entrance, elevator and any insurance certificate with the leasing office before move day. At a garden-style community there is no elevator to reserve. We need your building number, floor and gate code, and we size the crew to the stairs and the carry from the parking lot.
What does a local move in Marietta cost?
Typical totals run $400–$700 for a studio, $700–$1,300 for a two-bedroom and $1,200–$2,400+ for four bedrooms and up. Rates are $160 an hour for two movers and a truck, $200 for three and $240 for four, on a 2.5-hour weekday minimum — three hours on weekends, same-day bookings and moves of 25 miles or more. A 25% deposit holds the date and is credited in full to the final bill. Actual costs vary based on inventory, stairs, elevator use, carry distance, and truck access.
What is the cheapest day to move in Marietta?
The hourly rate is the same every day of the week: $160 for two movers and a truck, $200 for three and $240 for four. What changes is the minimum. Monday through Friday it is 2.5 hours; weekends, same-day bookings and moves of 25 miles or more carry a three-hour minimum, so a weekday start is the cheaper booking. Mid-month weekdays are also the easiest dates to hold, because the family-move peak here runs late May through July around the two school calendars. Around the Square, check the dispatch calendar above before choosing a Saturday — a festival weekend closes streets and adds carry distance rather than rate.
Do you quote a flat rate, or is it hourly?
Local moves in Marietta are hourly: $160 for two movers and a truck, $200 for three, on the minimums above. We do not quote flat rates for local work. If you have your own truck or container, our labor-only crews load or unload at $140 an hour for two movers, up to $300 for six. Booking through a moving marketplace gets you a third-party crew rather than ours; our guide to choosing an Atlanta mover sets out how the models differ.
How far ahead should I book Marietta movers?
Two to three weeks ahead for a month-end weekend, about a week ahead for a mid-month weekday, and same-day if that is what you have — LIOO books 24/7, on a three-hour minimum for same-day and weekend work. The 25% reservation deposit is what holds the date; a quote on its own reserves nothing. For a summer move around the two school calendars, book by early spring.
I live in East Cobb with a Marietta mailing address. Is this the right page?
You are covered either way, but the planning is different. East Cobb has no rail line and no interstate through it, and its moves run on Johnson Ferry, Roswell Road and Sandy Plains. If your ZIP is 30062 or 30068, the East Cobb corridor plan fits your address better than this one.
Who plans it
Who Plans Your Move
Tavion McCullough · Operations Lead, LIOO Moving
Tavion McCullough has run the Atlanta dispatch for LIOO Moving since 2017 and has supervised more than 1,300 metro-Atlanta moves. The crossing and loop routing, the curb calls on Whitlock and Church, and the crew sizes on this page are the ones he makes on real Marietta jobs under the LIOO Moving Georgia Household Goods Carrier certificate.
Give us the street
Get the Plan in Writing
Give us the street, the age and size of the home, and the floor if it is an apartment. We will come back with the crew size, the hourly rate, the route and a start time that avoids whatever is happening on the Square that week. Released-value protection of $0.60 per pound is included, and full-value protection can be elected before the job.