Moving, Cleaning, and TV Mounting With One Twin Cities Team: Dan & Christy’s Story with Dwell Home Services

Dan found College Muscle Movers while researching movers through the Minnesota’s Best website, where CMM had been voted Minnesota’s Best Moving Company in both 2024 and 2025. That gave him a good starting point. What he didn’t expect was that the quote process would introduce him to more than just a mover.

Through CMM, he learned that packing, cleaning, and home improvement help were available through the other Dwell brands. That meant one less round of research, one less set of calls to make, and one less time explaining their situation to a brand-new company.

With two working parents and kids in school, Dan and Christy knew they didn’t have the time or energy to spend weeks packing and unpacking on their own, so they booked Keepsake PCO to take care of it.

Before the move, the Keepsake team packed up their belongings so the family could focus on everything else a move brings up. After the move, Keepsake came back to help Christy unpack and get the new house organized, working with her to figure out where things belonged, with special attention to getting the kitchen functional early on. When the unpacking was done, they took the boxes and packing materials with them, so Christy didn’t spend the next several days breaking down cardboard and figuring out where to take it.

Because the family had also booked their move with CMM, they got 15% off the cleaning service. Keepsake also came back to clean the Minneapolis house once it was empty, closing out that chapter without Dan and Christy having to do it themselves.

The last piece was the TV. Dan and Christy hired Fixie Home Improvement to take it down at the old house and remount it at the new one. The service normally runs $330, but with a CMM move booked, their price came to $225, a savings of $105, or close to 32%.

The bigger win wasn’t the discount, though. It was not having to track down another contractor, explain the move all over again, or figure out how to safely move and reinstall a TV themselves. Steve from Fixie handled it start to finish, and made a big impression on Dan.

On moving day, the CMM crew handled the family’s belongings, including the tight staircase, the basement equipment, the furniture from the den, and the garage items that had to come out through the alley. When another mover on the schedule was unexpectedly unavailable, someone from CMM’s operations team stepped in to help, which Dan noticed. As he put it, “It was nice to feel that our business was valued, and that we would have the support we needed for our move.”

Crew leader Noah kept things moving with a positive, professional attitude throughout the day, and the family appreciated how hard the team worked while still being easy to be around.

Dan and Christy could have hired a mover, a cleaner, a packer, and a handyman separately, and spent hours researching each one, making calls, explaining their situation over and over, and hoping the schedules lined up. Instead, they went with three specialized teams working as part of the same Dwell Home Services family, which meant less research, less scheduling, less repeating themselves, and a lot less work for a family that already had enough going on. The savings were a nice bonus. The simplicity was the real value.