When psychology senior Brad Wolf lived in Palo Verde East he knew what it was like to move out at the end of the year in 110-degree heat.
Wolf, along with two of his fraternity brothers who graduated in May, started a business this year to give students an easy solution to moving out of their residence halls.
The business, Dorm Room Movers, offers services such as storing and shipping items from ASU residence halls.
"It kind of clicked, in hindsight, looking back at what we went through during the move-out from our dorms," Wolf said. "With all the stress from finals, if I had had this type of option back then, I would have definitely used it."
The current service, according to the company, involves a student packing his or her belongings into a box, which is then picked up by professional movers.
The boxes will then be either taken to a climate-controlled storage facility for delivery to ASU two weeks prior to the start of classes, or shipped anywhere in the continental United States for an additional fee.
Matthew Grossman, one of the founders of the business, said the three ASU entrepreneurs met in the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity.
Grossman said Dorm Room Movers is currently looking to expand to other universities.
"Once everything was in line at ASU, we realized that the progression would be to scale our services to UA and NAU," Grossman said.
The third founder of Dorm Room Movers, Leor Lapid, said all three have connections in the transport and storage industries.
"We've already started growing [our business] to other related services," he added.
The company is Grossman's biggest personal venture so far, he said. Grossman added that the business has already received a large number of advance orders from ASU students for its services.
Communications freshman Anthony Ortiz, who lives in the Hassayampa Academic Village, said the business is a great idea for students who live out of state.
Ortiz added that the service would make it easier for students when they move out of their residence halls.
Grossman said an added benefit of the business would be to clear traffic at ASU when students leave their residence halls.
"When you decrease the amount of cars and vans coming into the parking lots on campus, congestion will decrease, making it an easy move-out for everyone," he said.
Journalism freshman Stacie Spring, who lives in the McClintock Hall and is from Spokane, Wash., said she would consider hiring Dorm Room Movers if she didn't have friends in Arizona who would store her belongings over the summer.
"It just seems kind of expensive for something I can get a lot cheaper," Spring said. But the service would be good for students who didn't have a place of storage over the summer, she added.
"If you don't have a place to put things, it's helpful, but I have friends [who live here]," Spring said.
Reach the reporter at: mculber@asu.edu.
