No one likes to move. It's exhausting, time consuming, expensive: you only hope your stuff gets where it needs to go and that no one loses an eye in the process.
Apparently after deregulation of interstate moving companies, many con artist/fly-by-night companies emerged to take advantage of unwitting consumers. The horror stories range from the movers refusing to give a hard estimate, then holding your stuff hostage for an exorbitant amount of money, to outright stealing, to just bad form and breaking your stuff to bits. You will find many of these companies on the net. I requested a quote from a site called getamover.com and got about 15 responses, mostly hard sell salespeople .Because I had received what I thought was a low estimate from one of these companies, I steered clear of the "low-ball" quotes. After reading moverreviews, I realized I needed to book with a more reputable company. I read some great reviews on America's Moving Services, and called America's Moving Services very last minute. They were so accommodating right from the beginning and had an estimator named Chris call me within an hour.
Chris gave me an estimate for an interstate move from Virginia to Idaho, a three bedroom townhouse crammed full of stuff, some packing/materials the quote came to 5900.00 I was so shocked that the amount was around what all the other "never heard of you" moving companies.
Today two packers (one who has packing experience for 20 years) arrived right on time at 8 a.m. with the driver and two movers arriving in a HUGE truck shortly thereafter. I asked the packers to pack some additional things, which they didn't mind to do, as long as I acknowledged that I would pay them for doing so.
They three movers (including 1 driver) went to work clearing out my place and by 2 p.m. they were basically finished, and just adjusting things on the truck. I bought them all breakfast, made sure they had plenty of bottled water on hand, and tipped each of the movers 100/ a piece,(they were very very appreciative). I plan to tip the driver more when my things finally arrive and of course if no one loses an eye, which so far, no one has.
So my stuff is off to Idaho. The movers were very professional and the process was as decent as a move can be, considering the process is not fun in general. So far I recommend America's Moving Services whole heartily.
I was able to pay with a credit card over the phone, which is wonderful because of course you can earn travel rewards!
