Posted on 11/05/2014 11:13:18 AM PST by dangerdoc
Try Mesa Movers out of Grand Junction. I’ve got several family members that work for them. =D
Cowgirl of Justice #7
I’ve heard of that too, that’s why I’m here for advice. Thank you for yours, this is just the sort of help I’m looking for.
How far do they go to pick up?
From what I understand, they’ll go cross country. My cousin was just telling me the other day they were looking at going to Washington to move someone here.
I used “Two Men and a Truck” for my last big move. They did an excellent job!
If you can pack/load it yourself, there are a couple of really cheap alternatives to hiring a company. PODs is reasonably cheap from bigger cities to bigger cities (some friends looked into it, and to get it to their destination was more expensive - small town in Iowa), I think they went with ABF, who dropped off a trailer, picked it up when it was loaded, and dropped it off at the destination a week later. ABF charges by the number of feet of the trailer you load. You can order furniture pads online for cheap, and keep ‘em when you’re done. I think their whole move was around $2,000 from the Albuquerque metro area to central Iowa.
Much depends on the driver. We got a great guy, got there very quickly, was careful with our stuff, etc.
Interesting. I saw two of their trucks at a nearby house this morning. Had never seen them before. They were HUGE trucks. Looked very professional.
Thought it was a cool name for a moving company.
If you hire a company that uses a big rig to transport multiple customers at the same time, make sure your new home has a driveway that can accommodate the size of the truck. If the truck gets there and they feel they can’t get up the driveway to your house, they will charge you for a shuttle truck. The contract should say what size truck your property should be able to accommodate.
As an alternative thought exercise, consider how attached you are to your furniture. If not very attached, consider selling it on craigslist and buying new when you get to your destination. Sometimes the cost of the move is more than what the furniture replacement would be. That that is usually true for longer moves that your case.
If you don’t mind working more (or buying more beer and pizza for the guys), you could move the furniture into a local storage unit and rent a U-Haul for a couple of days and make two or three trips. Yeah, I know it is likely 6+ hours one way.
In Colorado I’d be looking for a company called
Just Say No Movers.
The last couple of move3s we made I found....we moved everything in the house. Once we were in our furniture either didn’t actually fit right in the rooms or the style was all wrong. I wound up selling all the furniture and a lot of the wall décor etc and replacing it anyway.
A while back we were planning on moving to Hawaii from California. I told hubby....just personal stuff and stuff we can’t replace. They have a Walmart and furniture stores there too. We were planning on taking nothing more than would fit in a small shipping container.
Its just stuff. It can be replaced.
Also, if possible, have friends and family handy to take photos and note any 'dings' noted on the paperwork by the movers. Every scratch, dent, stain is marked on those inventory sheets without any clarification on the extent of the damage. When the items are unpacked, if the damage exceeds the original state of the item, it's tough luck unless you can prove the damage was done by the moving company.
We are currently seeking compensation for my daughter's last move where the mover's destroyed her brand new crib. We disassembled it and handed all the components to the movers to pack appropriately. They delivered each rail with separate split spindles and the drawers cracked in half...insisting the damage was done prior to pick up. We have photos, but await final determination on any reimbursement.
GOOD LUCK with your move.
This was us to a T, except we hired people to load and unload the truck.
We used Two Men and a Truck to move us in our new house, prior to moving to Ga. Our movers were a black guy and a white guy and they joked that their names were Salt and Pepper. They did an awesome job, laughing the whole time and made the move as stressfree for us as possible. They were extremely careful with our belongings so we were happy to recommended them to neighbors of ours who were moving just out of the city limits. When the movers showed up, I went over to say hello to them. It wasn’t the black and white guy that had moved us and they said to tell our neighbors that their names were Salt and Pepper! ! I guess our guys weren’t available!!!! Hubby and I about died laughing! !
Yes, lock in the price. They may pad the estimate a little, but that’s normal. Get quotes. Some won’t lock in, so don’t use them. I’ve never had a moving estimate come even close - it’s always way under the actual.
It all depends on the crew. I had a great move by a company in MA, three Italian guys built like fireplugs, very professional. I used the company again, three college boys, horrible, did damage.
When I was in high school, I worked for a company that used garbage men - they get off work at two or three, used to lifting heavy objects. Except people need movers at seven in the morning, and they don’t like people dropping their pianos.
The insurance offered by moving companies is expensive and only applies if you assume the even greater expense of having them pack everything. Otherwise their liability is limited to pennies on the pound.
My take - if you can physically move yourself, you probably should.
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