BEWARE! THESE GUYS WILL SCAM YOU AND CHARGE DOUBLE WHAT THEY "QUOTE" CLAIMING THEY ONLY CHARGE HOURLY, AFTER PROMISING OVER THE PHONE ONE TIME FRAME TO MOVE YOU, ONLY TO TAKE DOUBLE THAT. They quoted me nearly $2,000 in boxes and packing materials, so I gathered 3 very large waist high stacks of broke down boxes, 12 wardrobe boxes and a few boxes full of paper. They used "most" of the boxes, and none of the paper or tape and charged me OVER $2,000 for the boxes and packing materials. I literally got charged more than they quoted me on packing materials and I provided 3/4 of the boxes needed. They didn't complete the packing and finished up on moving day, which was a more expensive hourly rate. The trash these guys left behind was insane. Im not even exaggerating when I say, I think I found about 50 rolls of half used tape all over my house, floor and counter tops and SEVERAL inside the boxes. One box contained 7 partially used tape rolls!!
Moving day, I was told by Edward as well as Alberto that it would take 6-7 hours to move everything. This was a local move. Should've cost us at the most $1407 on moving day, per Edwards estimate. The movers came with no water, then asked me if they could have water. So I was left scrambling to get them waters from the gas station, only to find out that our extra fridge that held beer and red bull had been wiped clean and all the empty cans stuffed under the laundry room sink in an attempt to hide it.
(Side note: I requested to have them come out to give me a bid and Edward said they do not do that, that he would go through room by room what furniture we have and give an accurate estimate. Even though they have a list of Ways to not get Scammed by Movers, on their website, that lists nearly every single thing they did to scam us, including "Secure an on-sight written estimate" and "Common Red Flags: over the phone estimates. incomplete documents, last minute price increases, unmarked written trucks, receipts and paperwork that require you to release liability. All of which they did. They try to make you sign a waiver stating you will not dispute any charges to your credit card as well. HUGE RED FLAG!) They were one truck short and forced the movers to split up 2/2. One hurt his shoulder (by moving heavy items alone) the other were gone 6.5 hours! They SLOWLY moved us for a total of 17 hours! And our old house was beyond dirty with more tape rolls and trash, not to mention they left behind an entire SUV load of items.
The entire time the movers were telling us that management & the owners DO NOT care one bit and that they often have to work residential moves until 2-3am. After all this, they charged us nearly $4,000 for the second day! TOTAL this local move cost us nearly $7,500!! We recently moved 11 hours away with pack and move and it cost us only $5K. How does a local move cost $2K more, with the customer providing most of the boxes? Daniel was beyond rude and aggressive with both me and my husband. Daniel ended up telling my husband he didn't have time for this because he was going to the gym and laughed at us and talked down to us when we told him the guys would be here until way past midnight. He scoffed and told us they'd be done by 10-10:30p! We were told by Edward over the phone and by the movers the day before 6-7 hours tops! They didn't leave until 2am!!
They destroyed 4 of our new dining chairs, busted a cake dome I received for my wedding by placing it in the bottom of a dish box, and covered it with heavy dishes, my husbands baseball card collection was carelessly thrown in a box, not wrapped, several mint condition cards some worth over $1,000 each were loose in the box, bent and destroyed. Several missing items. And Alberto was using one of my steak knives from a $500 knife set to open boxes and wrapping etc. And I had set down $350 cash that we had set aside for food and tip money, which one of the movers stole. But even worse, I looked over the charges for the boxes, and we were definitely charged close to double what they actually used. read more