"You get what you pay for" has never been a truer adage here. We hired these guys to move 10/5/11 because we had to retrieve belongings from a public storage unit as well as an apartment prior to moving into a high rise condo. We had a strict time limit to move in with the freight elevator. Also parking is terrible by the both the apartment and the condo. So we were loath to ask our friends to do a 3 location, crappy parking, strict time-limit move. We were originally thinking of renting a truck and maybe getting some extra help from the day laborers by the Home Depot. But we saw an advertisement on the street for these guys... only $45 per hour!
So anyway, they showed up 15 minutes late which wasn't the best start, but not too bad. Mike, the manager/owner is pretty young. When he opened the truck door I was rather dismayed to see a lot of furniture already on the truck. Mike explained that he agreed to get rid of it for his last customer the previous evening. He thought he would just dump it on the loading dock of the public storage unit I had rented. When I explained that I didn't think the storage manager would appreciate that I got a surprised, "Really? Oh..." response.
Anyway, fotunately I had my wife, father-in-law, and brother-in-law there to assist. And we did. We did as much, if not more, heavy lifting than the "movers". I also had to assist directing the loading of the truck.
We made it into the condo in the allotted time-frame, but afterwards discovered significant damage to several of our framed art pieces... nothing original or irreplaceable, but it's gonna cost to make them hangable again. Bottom line: the Home Depot idea was better. Should have gone with that. read more