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Moving services that won't hold my stuff hostage?
Crashtard
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My wife and I are going to be moving from Alexandria, VA to Richmond, VA, and we're looking at possibly hiring a moving service to help with the move. There seem to be a lot of places out there, and I don't want to be another horror story. Anyone have a good experience with a particular company?
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My thought there is if they can handle that type of move smoothly, they should be able to handle something in state for you
We just had Atlas come out and give us an estimate, they had competitive rates and were very professional.
My wife says a local mover might be a lot cheaper.
Edit: I meant to edit that into my post, not make a new post.
I've heard stories about people who agree to a rate and then once the truck arrives at the new place with their things the company will charge them a bunch of new fees and not release the stuff until it's paid. That may be a bunch of bullshit, who knows. I'll check some local places instead of the national stuff I've looked at and see what they say.
Get everything in writing and keep a copy with you.
Basically they'll advertise extremely cheap rate for moving, and then once they load all your stuff onto their van they start adding additional fees or holds the victim's furniture hostage. There's even this one case where a family of new immigrants was forced to go to the bank to drain out every last penny they got in their banking account. Then those mafias just took the guy's money, drop everything in the middle of the road, and drove away laughing.
The company will recommend their 'PODS' division which drops off these large containers and you fill them up and they move or for bigger moves you can rent out space in a large semi. In our case, the company showed up to her apartment with the truck and we had 2 hours to load it up and then they filled out all of the paperwork to allow a truck that size to park in front of our apartment and we had 2 hours to unload it.
They were very professional, polite, and easy to deal with.
Yeah, that'd be my guess. Usually minimums are in the 600+ range. So 700 - 1000 is probably right.
Best you can do is have everything pack and ready to go. Our movers had closet boxes which were awesome; boxes with a rod it them so you just hang your clothes in the box.
Make sure it's all taped up good and can survive getting tossed around. If there's enough stuff, you may want to make a trip yourself with valuables/breakables.
they charge you by the space in the truck you use. the only thing is you have to pack everything yourself
And then call the cops when they renege.
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If it's that close, why don't you just rent a truck and move it yourself?
It's A LOT cheaper that way.
And I learned that while a monetary tip for the movers themselves is appreciated, having some bottled water on hand for them is what really makes their day.
I vote for something so short you rent a truck and do it yourself.
The last times we've moved we've always had donuts or McDonald's breakfast food on-hand for the movers - it's pretty cheap to do and they definitely seemed to appreciate it.
Also we've had two very good experiences with Allied (one cross-country, one in-state), and one abysmal experience with Starving Students Movers (which may only operate in California, but for anyone reading this, use a different company).
Looks like we are. The consensus seems to be around 1200. Guess this can be locked! Thanks for all the replies guys.
I think PODS charges a premium because they're really the only ones heavily advertising, so they get "first pick" of customers.
see if you can find a Penske rental. way nicer trucks and better pricing