Marcus Reyna
Still drives a truck most Saturdays. Believes every move should end with a handshake and a phone number in case anything goes wrong.
Summit Moving Pros started with one truck, one driver, and a flip phone. Today we run nine trucks, eighty-four trained movers, and one of the lowest damage-claim rates of any independent mover in Colorado. What hasn't changed: we still know every customer by name, and we still answer the phone ourselves.
We're not a franchise. We're not backed by venture capital. We're a Denver family that decided to do moving right, and never found a good reason to change the formula.
"I never wanted to be the biggest mover in Colorado. I wanted to be the one people called their friends about."Marcus Reyna
Founder & CEO
In 2008, Marcus Reyna was laid off from a commercial construction job two weeks before his first daughter was born. He had a pickup truck, a hand truck, and $1,400 in savings. He printed 500 flyers on the office printer he'd borrowed from a friend, walked them around Capitol Hill, and got his first paying customer three days later — a graduate student moving into a third-floor walk-up on Pearl Street.
That first summer, Marcus moved 47 households by himself. He learned every short cut through the Denver grid, every building with a broken elevator, every HOA that required a permit three days in advance. By the fall of 2009, he'd hired his first two movers — his younger brother David and a childhood friend named Luis. Both still work here. David runs the long-distance division. Luis trains every new hire.
Summit got its first box truck in 2011, our first warehouse in 2014, and our first long-distance tractor-trailer in 2017. We added office relocations in 2015 after a client asked us to move her 12-person agency over a single weekend and told every other business in her coworking space about it. We added specialty moving — pianos, safes, art — in 2019 when Marcus got tired of referring customers to competitors who charged triple what the job was worth.
Today we run nine trucks, employ eighty-four full-time movers, and complete roughly 1,100 moves a year across four coverage zones. We've never had a single down year. We've never laid off a single employee. And we've never once subcontracted a job to a third party — every move we book, we do ourselves.
If you're reading this because you're considering hiring us, the thing we'd want you to know is this: we're going to tell you the truth. If your move is smaller than we usually handle, we'll refer you somewhere cheaper. If your timeline is impossible, we'll say so. If a competitor is a better fit, we'll tell you that too. We'd rather lose a job than lose a reputation.
Every one of these dates corresponds to a customer who asked us to do something we'd never done before, and then trusted us enough to let us learn how.
Marcus Reyna moves 47 households in his first summer, mostly by himself, mostly on weekends. The company is officially registered as Summit Moving LLC in September.
David Reyna and Luis Ortega join full-time. The team buys its first 18-foot box truck and crosses the 500-move mark. Damage claim rate stays under 1%.
Summit receives its USDOT and MC numbers and begins long-distance moves to the West Coast. First Seattle delivery in November 2012 takes five days door to door.
We purchase the 12,000-square-foot building at 745 Lipan Street that still serves as our headquarters, warehouse, and overnight truck yard.
A client asks us to relocate a 12-person agency over a single weekend. We do. Eight referrals come out of that one job. Today, office moves are 22% of our annual revenue.
Summit purchases its first dedicated cross-country tractor-trailer. Consolidation stops entirely — every long-distance customer now gets a truck that's theirs alone.
We invest in custom crating equipment, lift-gate trucks, and piano-specific rigging. First grand piano moved in March 2019. We've now moved 400+.
The warehouse undergoes a full humidity-control retrofit. Individual sealed vaults are added for high-value items, wine collections, and estate storage.
We complete our 10,000th relocation — a family of five moving from Highlands Ranch to Castle Rock. We still send every one of them a handwritten card.
Summit now runs nine trucks across four Front Range coverage zones and all 50 states for long-distance. 84 full-time movers. Zero subcontractors. Still family-run.
Every crew has a foreman who's been with us at least four years. Here are eight of the people you're most likely to see on moving day — one from each major division.
Still drives a truck most Saturdays. Believes every move should end with a handshake and a phone number in case anything goes wrong.
Runs every cross-country route personally. Has logged 780,000 miles behind the wheel of a Summit truck since 2010.
Personally trains every mover for their first 90 days. The reason our damage claim rate is a fifth of the industry average.
Builds every week's crew schedule from scratch, matching movers to jobs based on strengths. Nine years at Summit.
Has run 300+ commercial relocations across Denver and the Tech Center. Coordinates IT vendors, building managers, and dock reservations.
Runs a team of 22 packers. Certified in fine-art crating and trained in museum-grade handling for the highest-value residential jobs.
Grand piano certified, gun safe certified, and the guy we call when a customer has something no one else wants to touch.
Answers the phone personally during business hours. If you've called Summit, you've probably talked to Nadia.
These aren't marketing copy — they're the rules Marcus wrote on a legal pad in 2008 and still hands to every new hire on their first day.
Every crew arrives fifteen minutes before the scheduled window. That margin is what lets us handle a surprise — a locked gate, a missing key, an elevator reservation that didn't go through.
We'd rather lose a job on price than surprise a customer with a bill. If something changes on moving day, we stop, tell you the new total, and get your approval before continuing.
Every mover who touches your belongings is a full-time Summit employee with a background check, health insurance, and at least 90 days of training. No exceptions, even during peak season.
If something breaks during a move, we file the claim, replace the item, and call you — before you've had a chance to notice. The 30-day claims window is a fallback, not the plan.
Floor runners, door-jamb protectors, corner guards, and shoe covers on every job — whether the home is a $400K townhouse or an $8M Cherry Hills estate. Same standard, same crew care.
No phone tree, no offshore call center, no chatbot. During business hours, a Summit employee in Denver picks up. Usually Nadia. If she's on another call, she calls you back within 10 minutes.
Summit has never spent a dollar on television advertising. Every customer we've ever had came from someone else telling them about us. That's a debt we pay forward in the community we live in.
One phone call, one written estimate, one crew that shows up early and finishes on time. Same standard every single job.
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