Hi, I’m Brent Baldree, owner and founder of HHG Movers. With my wife’s encouragement and support I left my position at Hutchinson Moving and Storage and started HHG Movers with just a minivan and a vision at that time.
My goal has always been to provide the BEST relocation experience to our customers and maintain a level of professionalism that is unmatched by our competitors. I started this venture by providing labor only services to clients until I could afford to grow into a truck.
When I bought my first truck for $8,000 it broke down after just a few moves. I almost gave up, but kept going. I was able to finance a much larger and nicer box truck a few months later. $30,000 truck and only a few months later I have a $6,000 injector replacement bill. I’ve got $800 to my name. I almost gave up, but kept going.
Moving forward I was able to earn enough business to support one more truck and a full time office helper, but my office was my living room in my double wide trailer. We made that work.
It wasn’t but a few months after that I put on a second truck and hired a second office helper to assist me with handling on site surveys and phone calls so that I could focus on completing moves and ensuring customer satisfaction. That second truck only lasted 6 months before the engine locked up. Things were tight with the added overhead of office helpers and the payments of a broken down truck. With no money to my name, I almost gave up, but kept going.
With the help of an amazing team we made it to the point where I could purchase a small self storage facility. I will always be thankful to Mr. Butler and Mr. Burgess for owner financing that facility to me with a reasonable down payment. Without that facility I would not have grown into my first actual office that I purchased from Ms. Wade and Mr. Corbett for a fair amount. I am thankful for them selling it to me.
Not long after I had customers that needed storage space so I looked into buying a warehouse. Ms. Wade had a 2,500 sq ft warehouse and restaurant and she offered to owner finance that to me and it was perfect.
It turned out that 2,500 sq ft was not enough space to fill the customers demands. Ms. Wade had another 5,000 sq ft building just behind it and she agreed to owner finance that building to me.
It did not take long for those two buildings to not be enough space for our operations. It just so happened that a 8,000 Sq ft building across the road became available. With Ms. Wades encouragement and temporary assistance I was able to acquire the 8,000 sq ft building that we operate from today.