A question

[chipotle]

If any of you out there in Journal-Reading Land have had experiences with professional movers, I'd like to hear about them--particularly for recommendations or people to avoid, and any tips. This has become the biggest source of anxiety about my upcoming move, I'm realizing. Kitana's correct in observing that worrying about it doesn't do any good in itself, but I'd nonetheless like to try to keep the odds in my favor for getting a move that begins and ends smoothly without hidden extra costs.

Comments

[dajagr.livejournal.com]

I've never used professional movers (it's usually been 'borrow someone's van and throw the little bit of furniture I have into it), but I've heard a number of nasty things about Starving Students. I don't know if they even exist down in Florida, but given what I've heard, I'd give them a miss.

[chipotle.livejournal.com]

I gather some of the Caer Carnivore group used Starving Students and liked them, but with that exception the rest of what I've heard about them (and seen about them on the internet) is what you've heard. My suspicion is that either the branch in the northeast is better, or that Lisa and Wolf were relatively lucky.

I have one company definitively lined up to get a quote from (rather than an estimate) and I'm trying to get a few others.