If you need to book last minute movers fast, Motivated Movers is undoubtedly the company for you. HOWEVER, if you value any of your furniture, hold any sentimental feelings towards your items, or wish for holes to not be put in the walls of your new and old home, Motivated Movers is the worst moving company to hire! It's been 2 weeks since they assisted my family, and we are still finding knicks, dings, and scratches on our furniture.
The booking process was fast and the movers were friendly and professional, but that's where the praise ends. We were told we hired 3 movers for the first half of the morning and another 3 would arrive if we needed between 1-3pm. We forewarned the company that we needed assistance moving most of our furniture into storage pods because we were downsizing. The pods were in the driveway. The rest of the furniture would be put on their moving truck and if needed we also rented a UHAUL for our personal use. We spent weeks wrapping our furniture in plastic to hold against the elements and good thing we did. If we had not, our furniture would be further damaged. The crew did not use any of the dozens of moving blankets they had. They moved our furniture by hand with no further protection and then proceeded to place heavy objects on top of each other, which resulted in damage to most if not all our furniture. It seems as though they carelessly threw each item on the moving trucks.
The most infuriating discovery was going to our new home and seeing multiple holes in the walls. Another was the damage done to our new Samsung washer and dryer purchased this year (2021) in February. Under a year old and the dryer looks as though someone took a sledgehammer to it. We have no idea how that could've happened, unless heavy items were dropped on it during transport. The appliances no longer runs the same, so that's a $3,000+ purchase ruined in hours.
We were under no illusion that our furniture was heavy and required a lot of manpower and use of equipment. We even asked if items were too heavy to be moved twice because they could be placed in storage if too heavy. The movers moved most items by hand instead of using the hand truck dollies at their disposal. This resulted in the movers overextending themselves and growing tired quickly. When asked why they weren't using the hand truck and other equipment that are designed to make moving heavy items easier, they said their manager Kevin doesn't like it and encourages them not to use it. So big thanks to Kevin. All of our furniture is damaged because of your ill advised direction. On top of the furniture in our new home, we do not know how the furniture in storage fairs at the tired hands of these movers.
Now onto the second crew, they didn't arrive until after 6 pm because they worked two other moves that day. They got there just in time to unload the company's moving truck and nothing else. Unbeknownst to us, the first crew loaded our personal UHAUL to the brim while leaving heaps of room in their truck. We believe they did this so they would only be responsible for the items on their truck at the end of day. It took us days to unload the UHAUL, compared to their hour and a half of unloading.
Looking at our furniture and how exhausted the second crew (even the first crew honestly) it's safe to say Motivated Movers overworks and overextendeds their workers. As a result, the work these movers do is horrible. There is no reason movers, handling strangers furniture who used their hard earned money to buy, should arrive exhausted from previous jobs that same day. It's a perfect recipe for disaster, which is exactly what we got.
Overall Motivated Movers put more stress on an already stressful move. My family and I cannot be more disappointed and frustrated with their performance. Take time to vet moving companies, we did not and we regret it. I can't begin to total the amount of damage done to our furniture and home(s) alike, but it's easily over $5,000. read more