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Smithtown’s real estate market moves fast. Median home prices hit $940K in 2025 and the average home sells in just 22 days. That speed is great when you’re selling but it creates a real problem when your new place isn’t ready yet. You need somewhere for your furniture, your family’s things, your grandmother’s dining set, to go in the meantime.
Most people assume they’ll figure out the storage piece after the movers leave. That usually means scrambling for a self-storage unit, renting a second truck, and hoping nothing warps or molds in a metal shed over a Long Island summer. Smithtown’s humidity in July and August is no joke and the town is projected to see a 128% increase in days above 95°F over the next 30 years. What you store matters, and where you store it matters just as much.
With us at Dunbar Moving, the same crew that packs and loads your home in Smithtown handles your storage too. Nothing gets handed off to a third-party warehouse. No second company, no second contract, no gap in who’s responsible for your things. When your new home is ready whether that’s three weeks or three months that same team brings everything back. One call covers the whole move.
We’ve been operating out of Stony Brook since 1982 right next door to Smithtown along Route 25A. That’s not a coincidence. The North Shore is where we work, and it’s where we’ve built our reputation over four decades. We know the residential streets of Nesconset, the active construction zones near Kings Park’s downtown revitalization, the tight driveways off Jericho Turnpike, and the seasonal conditions that affect every move in Smithtown and the surrounding area.
We’re fully licensed, fully insured, and our pricing is flat-rate meaning the number we give you before moving day is the number on your invoice after. Our customers have confirmed this across Yelp, Google, and Angi. No surprise fees, no add-ons at the door. Just a straightforward job done right by a team that’s been doing it here, specifically, for over 40 years.
It starts with a flat-rate estimate. We come out, assess what you have, and give you a number that doesn’t change. No vague ranges, no qualifiers buried in fine print. Once you’re booked, we coordinate the entire move around your timeline whether that’s a school-year deadline with the Smithtown Central School District calendar in mind, a contractor start date for a kitchen renovation, or a closing date that got pushed back two weeks.
On moving day, our crew packs, wraps, and loads your belongings with the same care whether they’re going into storage or straight into your new home. If storage is part of the plan, your things go directly into our climate-controlled facilities in Suffolk County not a public unit, not a shared space with a padlock. Temperature and humidity are regulated, which matters when Long Island summers hit and your wood furniture or upholstered pieces are sitting in storage for weeks.
When you’re ready, we schedule the delivery. Same team, same accountability. If your situation changes renovation runs long, closing gets delayed again the month-to-month setup means you’re not locked into a contract that doesn’t fit your timeline. You call us when you’re ready, and we take it from there.
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A standard self-storage unit is essentially an uninsulated metal enclosure. In Smithtown, where summers regularly push into the upper 80s and low 90s with sustained humidity, and winters drop well below freezing, that’s a real problem for wood furniture, electronics, artwork, upholstered pieces, and anything else that doesn’t hold up well to temperature swings. Our climate-controlled storage facilities in Suffolk County regulate both temperature and humidity year-round, so what goes in comes out in the same condition.
Beyond climate control, there’s the matter of access and accountability. When your belongings are in our storage, they’re in a secured, professionally managed facility not a public unit where anyone with a unit nearby has access to the same building. And because we’re the ones who packed and loaded your things, we know exactly what’s in storage, how it’s wrapped, and how to handle it when it’s time to deliver.
This service is built for the situations Smithtown homeowners actually face: the renovation that displaced your living room furniture, the closing gap that left you between homes, the downsizing transition where some things go to the new place and some need a few months before you figure out where they land. Whatever the reason, the storage piece is handled the same way the move is by one team, with one clear plan.
There’s no minimum and no long-term contract required. Our storage is month-to-month, which is exactly what most Smithtown homeowners need when they’re dealing with a real estate closing that got delayed, a renovation that’s running behind schedule, or a transition that doesn’t fit neatly into a fixed timeline. You pay for the time you actually use.
In practice, most of our customers store for anywhere from a few weeks to several months. If your contractor finishes early, great we schedule delivery and you’re done. If the project runs long, you’re not penalized for it. The month-to-month model exists specifically because life doesn’t run on a storage company’s preferred contract length.
The biggest difference is who handles your belongings and when. With a self-storage unit, you’re responsible for getting everything there, loading it yourself or hiring a separate crew, and then coordinating a second move when you’re ready to retrieve it. That’s two moves, two sets of logistics, and two opportunities for something to go wrong.
With Dunbar, one crew handles everything packing, loading, transporting, storing, and delivering. Your belongings go from your Smithtown home directly into a secured, climate-controlled facility without a second handoff. There’s no gap in accountability, no second company involved, and no moment where your things are sitting in a truck or a loading dock while someone figures out the next step. For a homeowner managing a high-stakes transition in a market where homes sell fast and timelines don’t always cooperate, that’s a meaningful difference.
It depends on what you’re storing. If it’s plastic bins of seasonal decorations, a standard unit is probably fine. If it’s wood furniture, upholstered sofas, electronics, mattresses, artwork, or anything with sentimental or financial value, climate control is worth it. Smithtown’s summers are humid consistently in the upper 80s to low 90s with moisture levels that can cause wood to warp, finishes to crack, and fabric to develop mold over time. Winters drop well below freezing, which creates its own set of problems for electronics and certain materials.
Our climate-controlled facilities in Suffolk County regulate both temperature and humidity, so you’re not gambling on what condition your things will be in when you retrieve them.
The process is straightforward. Before your contractors arrive, we come in and remove the furniture and belongings from the areas being worked on whether that’s a full kitchen gut, a floor refinishing project, or a major addition. Everything gets packed, wrapped, and transported to our climate-controlled storage facilities in Suffolk County on the same day.
Smithtown’s housing stock skews older much of it was built between the 1950s and 1980s and renovation activity has picked up significantly, especially with the Kings Park Downtown Revitalization Initiative driving construction across the town. We’ve handled plenty of these jobs. When your contractor finishes, we coordinate delivery around your schedule, bring everything back, and place it where it needs to go. You don’t have to manage a second company, a second truck, or a second timeline. It’s one call from start to finish.
We’re based in Stony Brook, which shares a direct border with the Town of Smithtown along Route 25A. We’re not a franchise dispatching crews from Nassau County or a national company routing jobs through a regional hub. We’re a locally operated company that has been working on the North Shore since 1982 which means we know the roads, the neighborhoods, and the conditions that affect every move in this area.
That matters more than it might sound. The Town of Smithtown’s Highway Department maintains over 470 miles of local roads, and navigating them with a moving truck especially around active construction zones in Kings Park or the residential streets of Nesconset and Fort Salonga takes real familiarity. When you hire us, you’re not hiring someone who’s going to figure out your neighborhood on the day of your move.
Start with licensing and insurance. In New York State, legitimate movers are required to be registered with the NYSDOT for intrastate moves and carry commercial auto insurance and workers’ compensation. These aren’t optional they’re the baseline. You can verify a mover’s USDOT number through the FMCSA’s website before you book. If a company can’t provide that information upfront, that’s your answer.
Beyond credentials, look at how we handle pricing. The moving industry has a documented history of low-ball estimates that turn into inflated invoices on moving day. Ask specifically whether the estimate is binding and flat-rate, and check reviews across multiple platforms not just the ones on our website. Our flat-rate model has been confirmed by customers on Yelp, Google, and Angi: the number quoted is the number charged. For Smithtown homeowners moving in a market where the median home value is approaching $940,000, the stakes of getting this wrong are high enough that it’s worth taking the time to verify who you’re hiring before signing anything.
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