The City of Springfield requires a $20,000 bond from licensed house and building movers — moving a structure across city streets means closing lanes, lifting utility lines, and disturbing the right-of-way, so the city wants a guarantee. Ours is $600 flat, the 3% of $20,000, with no credit check.
















Springfield's house mover license is waiting on this bond. Here's the entire process:
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
License bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the City of Springfield Business Licensing office alongside your house mover license. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
$20,000 bond × 3% = $600, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
Moving a house or large structure across Springfield streets is an unusually disruptive job — it closes traffic lanes, lifts overhead utility lines, and can chew up pavement and curbs. The City of Springfield licenses house movers and conditions that license on a $20,000 surety bond standing behind the work.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Springfield (the obligee). If a move damages city streets, sidewalks, traffic signals, or utility lines and the mover doesn't make it right, the city can recover its repair costs against the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Movers who restore the right-of-way and pay for what they disturb treat the bond as a license formality, and it must stay active for the life of the license.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
$600 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.