Boston Movers-Who Are Your Movers?
Who Are Your Movers?
Imagine that its moving day and you hear a knock at the door. The moving company is here! So you hustle to the front door and open it to let the nice gentlemen inside. But what would you do if the two men standing on your doorstep look more like prison escapees than professionals? This is what happened to me when I relocated to Boston last year. The taller mover had a crude tattoo on his face (I believe it was a teardrop but it was hard to tell), while the short one couldn’t go five minutes without having a cigarette, even after I asked him politely to stop. I spent the next two hours watching everything the Movers did, fretting over every bump and worrying that everything I own would reek of smoke. Unfortunately, I was right; when I started unpacking at my new apartment, the awful smell filled the air, and almost every box had something that had been broken in the move. Well, you can understand that I was put off of moving by this terrible experience, and when my son suggested that I could move down to Florida now that I’m retired, I almost burst into tears!
Luckily, Ted had some good advice for me. He said “mom, just leave it to me.” He called and got a quote right away from a fantastic company that works differently from other Moving Companies. The quote was three hundred dollars less than my last move! Here’s how it works: they give you a container, you pack it, and they pick it up and drive it to wherever you’re moving to. You unpack it when it arrives. There was some elbow grease needed to pack up everything, but my son Michael and his friends took care of that in an afternoon, with plenty of time afterwards for a nice barbeque dinner as a reward for their hard work. What a good son!
Margaret Koldridge is a retired High school teacher who considers herself a good judge of character. Her bad experience with Movers encouraged her to help other seniors avoid the same fate. Margaret is enjoying her new role as consumer advocate so much that she’s thinking about starting her own blog. The Moving Companies would prefer that she would keep her opinions to herself, but Margaret knows how to deal with bullies.