The author
Igor Simic
Moving People Since 2012
Co-founder and operator of Red Cat Movers in Rockville, Maryland. More than 30,000 moves overseen, 2,000 of them carried by hand, and every guide on this site written from that work.
30,000+
moves overseen
2,000+
moves by hand
2012
moving since
No
Deposit
Flat
Rate
Unbeatable
Price
About Igor
Fourteen years of moves, written down.
Igor Simic has been moving people since 2012. He started on the truck, carrying furniture up Capitol Hill walk-ups and down high-rise freight elevators, and has more than 2,000 moves of his own behind him. He studied transportation and traffic engineering, with a focus on logistics and supply chain.
Before Red Cat he co-founded Zip Moving and Storage, which operated in the DMV, Chicago and Atlanta, and sold it in April 2026. Across both companies he has overseen more than 30,000 local, long-distance and office moves, which is where the numbers in his guides come from: what a crew gets tipped, what a load has to look like before the truck moves, which days of the month are cheapest to move.
In 2026 he co-founded Red Cat Movers with Milan Tabasevic, based in Rockville, Maryland, on one idea: the price is set before moving day and does not change with the clock. He runs the operation and writes every guide on this site himself.
How he checks a number
Every figure in a guide is a Red Cat figure.
Prices come from Red Cat's own estimates.
Every dollar figure in a guide or on the prices page is a Red Cat flat rate, the same number a customer gets on an e-signed estimate. Nothing is quoted from other companies or national averages.
Tips are what crews actually receive.
A Red Cat crew does about 2.4 jobs a day and takes home about $20 in tips a job. The tipping guide is built from those numbers, not from a percentage of the bill.
The calendar is Red Cat's booking data.
The cheapest and most expensive days in the best-time guide and on the prices page are the days Red Cat's own prices move, set from how booked each date is.
The how-to guides are how the crews do it.
Wrapping a couch, taping a box, loading a truck: each step is the way a Red Cat crew does it on a move, written down and drawn out.
Guides by Igor
What he has written so far.
Eight guides, each one answered first and explained after. More follow as the crews run into the next thing worth writing down.
- When Is the Best Time to Move?The cheapest days to move in DC, Maryland and Virginia, from Red Cat's own price calendar.Read the guide
- How Much to Tip MoversPer mover, not a percentage: what crews actually get, local and long distance, and when not to tip.Read the guide
- How to Use a Packing Tape GunLoad it the right way round, tape every box in an H, and tear tape by hand when there is no gun.Read the guide
- How to Secure Furniture in a Moving TruckTight rows from the cab back, floor to ceiling, heavy to light, with the straps and blankets that hold a load.Read the guide
- How to Move a CouchBy yourself on a hand truck, through a tight door and up L-shaped stairs.Read the guide
- How to Pack Dishes for MovingA dish pack from the bottom up, plates on edge, glasses on top, paper over bubble wrap.Read the guide
- How to Move a RefrigeratorEmpty, defrost, wrap, strap it to an appliance dolly, and when you can lay it down.Read the guide
- How to Move a Washing MachineDrain the hoses, put the transit bolts back in, and strap it to a dolly so the drum survives.Read the guide
Also by Igor: the moving prices page and the moving cost calculator.
Know your price.
Then let's move.
Your stuff moves. Your price doesn't.
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