If there’s a lesson to be learned .... don’t ever hire someone to move you with a name like “Pancake.” <<<
In 1977 I paid a National Mobile home mover, to move my mobile 237 miles, from Yuma County to Kingman.
I had to pay before it would be moved.
Days, weeks went by and and I got nasty.
The Local County Attorney made a few phone calls and the mobile was brought to Kingman, but to a storage yard.
The County Attorney got on the phone and they brought it to my property here.
But they called and wanted additional money , double what I had paid in the beginning..
I called the Sheriff and told them that I was fearful that I was going to have troubles, so a young Sheriff came out, looked at my paperwork and told me to not say a word, that he would do the talking.
He talked and the mobile was parked, inside the property line, barely.
A week later, Planning and Zoning showed up, wanting to cite me for attempting to park 2 mobiles on one lot [3 acre lot].
The moving company man also told me to put every thing that I owned in the mobile, not to worry it would be here in 3 days, that if I left the aquariums hooked to the electric supply, he would unplug it, when he moved and all my tropical fish would survive the trip....etc.
Not true weeks later.
It was my luck to get a crooked driver, who cashed my check and several others and went on a big party, or so the company said.
This is the price we pay for assuming that business people have integrity, even if they tout a famous logo.
I’ve moved enough in my life to know there are movers and then there are movers. The best ones are those who have a longstanding reputation and check on their men while they are out on the job and then follow-up. It’s hard to know but sometimes word-of-mouth is better than the yellow pages.
I hope you are settled for a long while nwa-granny and that packing and moving are but a distant memory.