The furniture has arrived
Well after being almost a week late, the furniture has arrived. A word to the wise, if you are going to hire a company to do your moving make sure you -
- Have someone actually come out to your house to give you an estimate.
- Elsy and I are not movers and do not know how much truck space our house takes up. We ended up needing double the space which cost double the money.
- Get a firm date of delivery.
- We were told 2-5 days (not business days). On the contract it stated 7-14 business days (which they held to when the furniture did not arrive on Monday).
- Know the distance to your front door at your new house.
- Our “contract” only covered 75 feet when it was 75 steps to our front door
- Make sure the truck can get to your front door.
- The moving guys where throwing around renting a “delivery vehicle” to go from the truck to our apartment if they could not get in the complex.
- Get service from a moving company, not a broker.
- The people we purchased service from were brokers so they had to call the real moving company to find out where our stuff was.
Hind sight is 20/20. I would have just rented the Uhaul and done it myself if I had know it would have been so expensive and such a hassle.
Oh well, we were all so happy to see our beds that all the issues with the moving company washed away (especially Mikey when he saw OUR bed - I wish he would have been that happy with HIS bed). Anyway, the next few days will be for unpacking and settling.
