I used All Directions Moving for a move within Ann Arbor, which was originally scheduled with packing on one day and moving on the next day. My experience ended up leaving me with a sour taste in my mouth, for a few different reasons.
First, our crew didn't seem very organized. The first day (packing day), the three-person crew assigned to my move showed up with a moving truck but no packing materials because they mistakenly thought they were doing a move on that day. They ended up canceling packing entirely on that day and did the pack and move together the next day, making the whole process much longer on the second day. Halfway through packing, they ran out of tape. How does a moving company not bring enough tape for a job?
Additionally, our crew didn't seem very careful. It's easy enough to laugh off some of the things, like how the top of my canopy bed was installed upside down or how a food processor somehow ended up packed in a trash can. But others were less funny -- it was raining on the day of the move, but the movers didn't wipe their feet or lay down enough padding on the floor of my carpeted apartment and ended up dragging a lot of mud in as they moved. By the end of the move, the white carpet was badly stained near the entrances to the apartment.
When interacting with city workers and my neighbors, our crew didn't seem very professional. The 26' moving truck was parked in such a way that it blocked trash pickup for about 5 houses beyond ours on the street. Our crew refused the request by the trash collectors to move the moving truck, and as a result trash did not get collected for a number of my neighbors. When one of the neighbors complained to a member of the crew about how her trash did not get picked up, the crew member told her, "What do you want me to do about it?"
Finally, I was really rubbed the wrong way by an interaction with the crew chief, Alex. I had asked him if AD Moving could help with the carpet they stained, either by cleaning it or by paying for any cleaning ordered by my landlord. Alex promised that after the move he would bring a carpet steamer to the apartment to clean it, and he said he would call me within an hour of leaving to schedule a time to drop by. An hour came and went, and I got no reply to multiple calls and a text trying to schedule the carpet cleaning. Needless to say I stewed over this interaction as I was on my hands and knees applying carpet cleaner at 11 p.m. after a long day of moving -- if Alex changed his mind about steaming the carpet, he should have given me a call and told me so.
I'll wrap up the review by saying that I'm bummed it was so negative. There were a number of positives to the crew -- they were delightful in interactions with me and my family, they worked fast, and they ended up completing the move on time and with no damage to my belongings. That being said, I certainly won't be using All Directions Moving again or recommending it to others. read more