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    4.6 (395 reviews)
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    Brianne B.

    We had a terrible experience with Budget Movers in Jan 2025. They caused significant damage and failed to provide insurance that is required under Oregon Revised Statute 825.100. We paid $5,235 for moving services and they caused approximately $8k in damage. They have not refunded any of the charges or paid for damages. Repairing the damage to our home also delayed listing it by 2 weeks. Find a different company and ensure they offer value based insurance and have actual movers and moving trucks (not day laborers and trucks rented at Uhaul). In Jan 2025 we moved 8 miles using Budget movers. Our home is 2,900 sf, 3 bedrooms. The estimate process went well but the lead mover was not onsite during our move. There was a new lead, one person with prior moving experience and 4 hired laborers. 6 movers was too many and created chaos and disorganization that took longer. Multiple rooms and the garage were loaded at once instead of one room at a time so unloading was very time consuming. Many items were put in the wrong rooms and had to be moved again. This is despite 2 color coded labels on all items with a coordinated color-coded sign on each room. Damage Coverage: the movers did not use blankets and damaged our home and many pieces of furniture totaling $7,710. Oregon Statute requires movers to offer insurance to cover the value. This was never offered and the company did not have adequate insurance to cover our claim. We are pursuing other remedies against the company. Damages: Drywall, door frames (not protected), flooring (no protection of wood floors), headboard and dresser (hundreds of scratches, no blanket protection), broke adjustable bed bases, gauges in wood of a Murphy bed by transporting with hand truck instead of carrying (refused to remove doors and drawers so it could be carried), gauges and scratches on wood bookcase, ripped fabric hampers, hauled away to the dump new items with tags for return, failed to haul away large/awkward items in backyard they were paid to haul away (we had to hire another company). The Asphalt of our shared driveway was damaged and we are required to repair it. Hiring people to fix all the damage was time consuming, stressful, and added to our costs. This delayed listing our house for sale by 2 weeks. Moving Chaos: The disorganization and chaos was mind boggling. Red Christmas bins were in every room of the house, sports equipment (baseball bats, basketballs) were put in our primary closet, weed killer in our kids bedroom, bookcases placed sideways on top of small boxes of glass candle votives that were smashed, boxes stacked in front of doors that blocked access, sofa setup to face the door instead of the TV, muddy red rug put on carpet that got it dirty, cereal boxes wrapped in 8 layers of plastic wrap, desk placed on its side that fell. Unlike other movers that quoted our move, they required all items removed from dressers, cabinets, etc. I understand some of this but they wouldn't even allow kids coloring books inside of a locked file cabinet. Almost all our office furniture, file cabinets, etc. were put in a bedroom and we had to move all of it later. I couldn't oversee everything with 6 people doing different things. The labels were often ignored. I've hired movers numerous times and I've never experienced anything like this and it made the already stressful move much worse.

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    Had a "moving company" show up without a truck in the morning and had try to find last minute movers. The woman on the phone was really nice and said she would see what she could do. She found a team that could squeeze in a 2 hour heavy and large furniture move. The team of 3 showed up right on time and did a great job quickly. The price was more than fair too. If I ever move again, I'll be going with Budget Movers!

    My crew for today (2022)
    Anne B.

    I have used this company three times in the past five years. Each time they have been so helpful, hard working, considerate, and fun to work with. This time was no exception. These two guys that helped me today moved everything out of my 10x15 storage unit and packed it very carefully like a puzzle to the very top of my moving truck. I never would have been able to get my truck packed like this myself. Their help really saved me a ton of time, energy, and frustration. It took 3 hours for these master movers to get it done. It would have taken me 3 days!

    Still left on read with zero apology or accountability by the owner as of six days later. Stay classy, Budget Movers.
    Rachel G.

    DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY. They completely ruined my move, tried to put their employees in serious physical jeopardy, cost me nearly $1,000 for no work rendered, and are allegedly banned by multiple Portland apartment buildings because of their bad business practices. I booked with Budget to move last Friday from a 2nd story apartment in PDX to a 15th floor one just a few miles away. My first red flag was that the night before my scheduled move - which they'd already charged me a fee for - when their dispatcher called to ask me if I could move my move for them (!!!!). I said no, reiterating again that I'm moving into a unit on the 15th floor, and the moving elevators were booked prior to my time slots that day, which I'd stated in every prior convo. They said okay, they'd come at their scheduled time, and it wouldn't be a problem. My partner and I both had taken the day of our move fully off - 16 hours of PTO burnt between us so we could do this move. Thirty minutes before they were set to arrive, I got a call that they were running 6-8 hours late. This meant that I now would be doing my move around 9pm on a Friday night, with no elevators reserved in either building. This news set off a flurry of work for me, trying desperately to coordinate between both buildings to try to reschedule the elevator reservations. The building I'm leaving couldn't do it, but the one I'm moving into took mercy and agreed to book the off hours evening time for us. Nearly six hours go by, with no contact from dispatch. I finally call them. They dance around it and then finally inform me that they will not be sending me any movers for my move at any time that day - after we waited at home the entire day until nearly 6pm expecting them to be there then. They push to do the move the next day instead (Saturday), and I explained that this was impossible as there would be no availability to reserve the elevator in the building I was moving into, and I was not willing to have their employees be put in the extreme danger of moving huge pieces of furniture by foot up 15 floors on the stairs. When I expressed how frustrating each part of this was, the only remedy offered was that they volunteered to throw in an extra mover for the next day to move my things up 15 floors by foot. I stated that this was unacceptable and I would not allow them to endanger their employees in this way. I'm considering reporting them to OSHA for clear labor violations. Ultimately I asked for my money back since zero services were rendered, and I booked with a different company days later when we could get elevator reservations synced up again. I can't express how unprofessional this company is, and how much it impacted me - and COST ME MONEY - for them to completely ruin my move. I'm now half a week behind, with family arriving for the holidays and no time to get our new home ready. We lost 16 hours of PTO because of this company failing to even show up on our confirmed moving day after they took our deposit, which they certainly did not offer to compensate us for. I lost hundreds more and many hours of time on sunk costs for other contractors who I could no longer keep my appointments for after Budget completely cancelled our move with no notice - including people scheduled to mount furniture in the new place, folks scheduled to do clean outs of the old one, and other vendors with work related to the move. Icing on the cake is that as I shared what Budget did to me with both buildings involved in my move, I learned from staff that one of the two involved had them on a ban list because of the extent of predatory and dishonest practices they'd repeatedly subjected other residents to in my building. They knew the dispatcher by name as soon as I mentioned the company, and told me horror stories of them lying about move times, locking residents out of their move times when they ran behind, two of their movers walking off the job mid move because of their treatment of them, and more. I'm guessing any positive reviews here are from people moving deep in the Burbs. This company cannot handle moving within the city, when there are deadlines to meet and more challenging logistics. I'm sure they'll respond to this review to try to spin it or pretend to care, so here's a note I sent them sharing these problems the day it happened, where the owner very classily left me on read and never bothered to respond when I first went to him in private over my horrible experience. Bottom line: DON'T TRUST THEM. They CANCELLED MY MOVE day or after they were 6 hours late, they cost me over a grand in lost PTO and cancellation fees for other services, and they made this by far the most stressful move and holiday of my life. I've moved cross country multiple times and done moves in many major cities - never, ever had an experience as bad (or bad at all) as this before.

    I used Budget Movers for a second time moving all my large furniture and items. Carlos and Daniel arrived early and were very communicative and awesome the entire move. They worked quickly but careful with all of my stuff. The move was so much easier and stress free. I will definitely always be going back to them for any move I have.

    Héctor, Luis and Jeremiah & myself

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    They were awesome! They were on time packed everything very quickly and reasonably priced.

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    Carlos and Tim and the whole team were amazing. Great communication the entire time and friendly service! A+++++ professional.

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    11 months ago

    Used Budget Movers 3x now, they are always fast and reliable!! We had Carlos, Jeremy, Lenar and they were fantastic.

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    Thank you for this feedback, Jamie.

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    1 year ago

    Carlos and Victor were awesome, so helpful, really kind, and went out of their way to help me!

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    Carlos and his team were on time, professional, and made sure everything was perfect. Highly recommend!

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    Carlos and his team were amazing. Polite, fast, helpful, they went above and beyond. Couldn't have asked for a better experience,

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