Professional Movers: Why Do They Charge So Much?

[Dave_L]

We're in between houses (waiting to close on our new home) and we said that if we ever have to move again, we're paying someone. This is our second move in 3 years and it sucks.

[TFOGGER]

Movers charge what they do for the same reason divorce lawyers do: because they're worth it. If I ever have to move again, I'll gladly pay someone to do the heavy lifting.

[MED]

Because it's worth it. And probably then some.

We've been in our home 25 years. I'm finding stuff I didn't even know existed. We've had 2 garage sales. We still have enough crap that we'll be lucky to get half of it packed by the time we're ready to go.

I have no idea how I'm gonna get my safe on to a truck...or off. Tool boxes, large tools, small tools, car stuff, ladders...all things I use far too often to sell and have to replace. Good thing I don't have lots of guns...or ammo. I have no idea what I'd do with those things for safe keeping once we arrived at our destination.

The wife literally has tons of fabric and quilting crap...a truckload in itself.

What a PITA.

If you need help loading anything, let me know; I can swing by if needed.

[Dave]

Anyone have a recommendation for movers? We just closed on a house and will be moving from Aurora, to Westminster around July 10. Mostly we're looking for heavy stuff getting moved and I'll use my SUV and wife's car for guns, ammo and fragile items.

[beast556]

Good luck with your move. Wish we were at a point where we could pick up and move again.

[TheGrey]

She has stuff from yesterday all the way back to the 1850s and everything in between. My wife is the Grand Poobah Quilter in these parts...former county and state fair champion for some of her quilts. She did this one (handiest photo I have) for a local animal shelter silent auction. It's called "Forever Homes" and it brought over $1300 at the auction:

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That's fantastic! She's got major talent.

[TheGrey]

Anyone have a recommendation for movers? We just closed on a house and will be moving from Aurora, to Westminster around July 10. Mostly we're looking for heavy stuff getting moved and I'll use my SUV and wife's car for guns, ammo and fragile items.

Congrats on your new home! We used Mayflower when we moved from Aurora to Lone Tree. After several military moves, it was refreshing to have some truly professional movers. We don't have gun safes, but we have some godawful heavy furniture, and many, many, many boxes of books and LPs. They were fast, polite and careful.

[Bailey Guns]

If you need help loading anything, let me know; I can swing by if needed.

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind but, at this point, I think we're good.

[TRnCO]

We moved last Aug. after 16 years in our last house. Hired "Two men and a truck" and dang sure glad we did. Had two garage sales, donated a bunch of stuff to different organizations trying to "down size", gave stuff away, and Still, what a pain in the azz.
We had two trucks and 4 guys working and they busted their butts. One guy, one BIG guy, strapped my safe on a dolly and man handled it up the ramp all by himself. I was impressed. After both trucks were unloaded, we not only had subway sandwiches waiting for them, but I gave each of them a $50., because they did a great job and because they hustled so hard, they got done way quicker than what they had estimated it would take, so in the long run them hustling saved us a few hundred from what it would've cost.