Yes. Stairs are normal for NMLP. The hand truck handles most situations and Josh has done thousands of pickups across multi-level Albuquerque homes:
- Second- and third-floor apartments without elevators — common in Nob Hill, EDo, the UNM area, and the Heights. NMLP makes multiple trips with the hand truck.
- Basement libraries — common in the Heights, the Foothills, and older Northeast Albuquerque homes. NMLP carries up the stairs.
- Multi-level houses with the books on different floors — NMLP starts at the top and works down so gravity helps.
- Adobe homes with split levels — common in the North Valley, Old Town, and the South Valley. NMLP handles single-step transitions easily.
- Storage units on upper floors — rare in ABQ but not unknown. NMLP works with elevator access where available.
- Steep driveways — common in the East Mountains and the Foothills. NMLP parks where the truck fits and handles the carry.
Mention stairs when you call 702-496-4214 so Josh expects them. If the load is unusually large for a stairs-only path (say, an estate library on the third floor of a no-elevator building), NMLP may schedule extra time.
The buildings this has already worked in
The Albuquerque housing stock writes the playbook. Nob Hill and university-area walkups put whole libraries on third floors with no elevator; Heights and Foothills houses put them in basements; North Valley and Old Town adobes add split levels and courtyard entries narrower than a hand truck is wide; East Mountains properties contribute steep gravel driveways where the van parks at the road and the carry starts there. All of it is routine. The method on multi-level houses is to start at the top and work down so gravity does half the labor, with the hand truck handling everything that has a clean run. You lift nothing at any point — that is not politeness, it is the service.
Optional ways to make a stairs job faster
None of this is required, but each one shortens the visit. Staging boxes at ground level before I arrive turns a stairs job into a driveway job — porch and garage staging both work, and you do not need to be home for either. If you do box things yourself, stop at half-full: a full banker's box of books passes forty pounds, and box bottoms fail on stairs first. In multi-story buildings an ordinary elevator solves everything, so mention whether one exists. And for the genuinely big no-elevator cases — an estate library on a third floor — say so when scheduling and the visit gets booked with the extra time it honestly needs, instead of running long against the next stop. Scheduling runs through 702-496-4214 or the pickup page.
Need books gone in Albuquerque?
Free pickup, any condition, flexible scheduling. Or use the 24/7 outdoor drop box at 5445 Edith Blvd NE, Unit A.
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