My review is long overdue. HIGHEST RECOMMENDATIONS for Justin Midas Movers!
I will begin by saying I had a terrible moving experience years before. I made arrangements for a whole apartment move and the movers never showed. They called at 9PM that night asking if we could start. I was floored! REALLY?!? I told them not only was it ridiculous but impossible. Most of my stuff was going to storage, which had already closed. With one day left to vacate, I had to do a last second Craig's List hire. Worst experience ever. Ended up with a ton of broken stuff and missing items of value. Worst move EVER. Gave me serious "moving phobia".
Fast forward to January 2016.
We had two big moves. A full apartment w/ art studio in it, and second art studio, different location. All moving to a tiny, dead end, one lane street off all one way streets. I chose Midas not only because of response time to my inquiry, and being from Manayunk I figured they had plenty of experience with tiny weird streets. Midas was the right choice!
I arranged my move well in advance, just in case. I pretty much told Justin about my moving phobia, and explained I was trying to plan ahead and get every duck in a row due to that seriously stressful mishap years earlier.. He was so perfectly professional & kind, I never imagined it was possible to find such a cool moving company after what I had been through!
Of course, even with all my planning, Murphy's law had me schedule our apartment move the day of the blizzard in February 2016. Our tiny, one way street was simply PACKED with snow, never plowed by the city, ever. Not to mention the long driveway at our current apt impassable. We were only moving about 5 blocks, but all surrounding streets that had been plowed were a mess. Could hardly tell plows had even been down them, two lane streets turned into one, still covered with ice and snow, impossible to navigate. An impossible situation, I thought. I was afraid I would have to reschedule a whole month away if I missed my day and Midas ended up being booked up.
Instead, Justin had everything under control. He did some "movers magic", and we were able to do our move only a day or so after the giant snowfall, still with snow on the ground everywhere. Justin and his team did an excellent job moving our whole second floor apartment, but negotiating the snowy, one way and no access road we were moving to like it was nothing! And the few roads in between were not much better, let me tell you! They did an excellent job.
I could not have been happier. Everything worked out so much better for a post-blizzard move than I ever could have imagined. Everything was well taken care of, kept dry and packed carefully into the truck. Crew was able to get our bed through our second story window like it was old hat, given the new tiny stairwell was an impossibility. We were more than thrilled.
Justin knew I had another move coming up but I had told him it may not be for awhile and would be in touch. I was not planning on moving the second studio for at least a couple months. A new tenant was found unexpectedly, so I had little time to pack and be out. Justin was able to schedule me in at hardly a moments warning, yet again, with that movers magic.
Another hard move from a basement space with one back stairway access down a skinny easement. Mt Airy style. Even though I though it would be super hard and take forever, Justin and his team was able to make it happen, quickly and with no problems. As soon as I was packed and at very short notice so that the new tenant could be in as soon as possible, they got it done. Again, I was amazed.
I had many large art related tools and supplies, and I remember my move into that space being so hard! Justin and his team made this move seem like a piece of cake, too, ESPECIALLY compared to the move in experience down that tiny easement years prior! Wish I had known of Midas when I moved into that spot years before. Would have saved a ton of backbreaking hard work and time, for sure.
I'd certainly recommend Midas Movers to anyone. Justin not only didn't leave me hanging as another moving company did after placing my initial contact with Midas, but kept in great touch with me during the whole weather/blizzard thing, both before, during and after the giant snow so that everything could get completed as soon as humanly possible. Earlier than what I thought humanly possible, actually. I guess that was Justin's movers magic, again.
Moving is stressful enough. Given the circumstances of my "move from hell" that gave me "moving phobia" and both my recent moves, between a blizzard and a last second arrangement, it could not have worked out better! Five+ stars for Midas! I'd use them again in a heartbeat, and still have another job that I will be calling about, hopefully sooner than later!
And best of all, I am cured of my moving phobia, forever! And that's saying something, let me tell ya! :-) read more