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RatLabGuy

RatLabGuy

You look like a monkey and smell like one too
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Churchville, MD
I'm looking reccomendations on or warnings against particular moving companies, to move all my chit up to MD. Seems liek there's millions of them... not sure who can be trusted, who not.
Good experience/being safe > saving a couple hundred $$.
 
I don't know if the specific company matters, maybe it would. I had an antique dining room set of my grandmothers moved from her house in Arizona to mine here. It was a full size bigrig, so I guess the load was warehoused til they coordinated it with someone else's almost fullload.
The truck rolled up to my house, the mexican's started rearranging stuff to get mine out. After like 15 mins, I started wondering wtf was going on, seemed like a lot of activity going on in the trailer. I walked near the tailgate, and something was wrong, but they were crowding the entrance, so I couldnt tell what was going on.

So they brought the table/chairs in and there were black sharpie marks all over it, and a cigarette burn on the side. It was a dark table so it was kind of hard to see the sharpie marks, plus my g'ma smoked so I wasnt sure if it was pre-existing. I called my mom, who had grown up with that table, no answer, so I had to sign for it, and they left. Mom got my message, told me the table was immacualte a few months ago when she visited last. I emailed here pics; luckily she had taken pics, and the damage was obvious. I guess the movers were sharpie'ing al the scratch marks while in the trailer. It was a painful process to get it refinished/reimbursed, but it finally happened.

MORAL: take pics of your crap before the movers touch it.
 
lol...tables.....eyebrows.....whats with the mexies and sharpies?
 
stay away from 3guys and a truck.
PM me for why.
 
we had various problems with movers in past but we moved to our house we're in now last august and we used mayflower. They were great. All the movers were nice and very respectable of our stuff. They treated it like it was there own. And they had it all done in half the time of the other people quoted. I would go with them again in a heartbeat hands down.
 
I used Trosa to move from Johnston County to Wake Forest. Some people may have a problem with what they are - but I do not. As a disclainer - I understand that a friend of mines mother was involved with them as far as writing proposals that helped them get grants to operate. They are a business that provides a rehab and work to former addicts. I was pleased with their service and do recommend them as moving company. They also operate an automotive repair shop - but I have no experience with that end of their business.

The folks that the involved in the moving business are something akin to trustees. They have been with the program for while have not had any issues and are subject to all kinds of rules. I am a military brat and ended up moving many, many times throughout my life and have dealt with many moving companies. They did as good a job as anyone else.

As an additional tip to moving - go online and buy the boxes. There a couple of companies that sell boxing kits. They are much cheaper than what you will pay locally. Plus they come with packing paper, magic markers and packing tape. It is so much easier than picking up boxes from any other place - except Craigs List. On Craigs List you can often get them for free.

Brett
 
go to the local recycling place and pick the boxes out and just tape them back together. Screw wasting money and world resources if you don't have to. Never used that program but have used the ex-con programs and they sucked both times.
 
Avoid Wheaton, if those clowns are even still in business...

When we moved from Charlotte to Hickory back in the early 90's (91, 92, 93...somewhere around there) we used them.

Stuff was broken, missing stuff, scratched, boxes smashed. I was too young to remember the moving guys themselves so I cant say whether they were nice guys or assholes. BUT I do remember how much my parents were pissed about all the damage.
 
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