I have owed Fast Time Movers a review for 2 weeks now, I should have written this sooner. We were in a real bind, our storage pod was delivered on Monday and would be picked up on Wednesday so we only had a single day to get it unloaded, and the mover we had scheduled fell through over the weekend. On Monday we were able to schedule these folks (via a service, I think) with just 24 hours notice! You'd think the story would end there, however, someone (probably us?) accidentally requested the wrong date. So I call them on Tuesday around the time they were supposed to show up and they said "uh, we thought that was next week...no worries, we are finishing up a job and we will be right there!"
Two hours later they were able to show up and they got right to it. The leader, Daniel Garcia I think, was excellent. He showed great care for all our items *and* for his crew. One of the three guys appeared to be more junior and watching Daniel direct him was something to behold. He was constantly handing him the lighter boxes, and telling him "it's a long day, take a break" or "make sure to hydrate" or "he's the plan for getting this up the stairs".
We had already had a different company unload our uhaul a few days earlier, and they left some pretty serious scuff marks on the wall of our stairwell, so I pointed them out to Daniel and said "Just so you know, these marks are already there, but be careful not to make it any worse" and he immediately asked "oh, do you guys have any paint? usually they leave some paint" and sure enough, we found some in a cabinet over the refrigerator. Not only did Daniel ensure they didn't touch the wall once, after they were done, he applied the paint himself and actually left the wall BETTER than they found it! He showed me the trick of using a paper towel to dab the wall and used a moving blanket as a tarp and after it dried, the spots were all invisible!
One of our tougher items was a large executive desk. It was already in two pieces, but after they got it all the way up the stairs, it still wouldn't quite fit through the door to the room where I wanted it. Well, they took the extra time to figure out how to disassemble it a bit farther, removed the door from the hinges, and then in what I can only describe as the most extreme 3d tetris I've ever witnessed, managed to get it into the room and reassembled without a scratch. I was joking "I am going to have to write you guys a yelp review to make sure I can find you when we eventually move out, because I'm not sure anyone else will be able to figure out how to get the desk back out of this room!"
Most movers do a final walkthrough to ensure everything is where you want it, but they rush you through it as an afterthought. Daniel carefully walked me through each room asking if everything was in the right place, offered to help move boxes and furniture around again, made sure we got the carpets down underneath the couches and smoothed out... everything was absolutely excellent.
I've had some great movers before, and some not so great movers also, but this was probably the best moving experience I've *ever* had and I will definitely use Fast Time Movers again. read more