Excellent Quality Movers Live Up To Their Name. Best Movers New York: How to Move on a Budget

I moved this past week and while moving is the worst thing in the world, I have to say how impressed I was with my movers (who did not pay or sponsor this post in any way). I found Excellent Quality Movers through a site called CityMove.com where you post your moving job (including all the furniture and boxes you have) and different moving companies bid on it. My last move I went with Flat Rate movers and they were great. They were efficient and came on time and knew what they were doing. They also did not break anything. However, this time when I called them to get an estimate, they wanted double of what EQ Movers were willing to do it for. Really!! EQ offered $680 and Flat Rate offered $1200. Of course I was a little hesitant that Excellent Quality Movers would be late, unprofessional, etc. since I had not heard any reviews from any trusted sources but for half the price I figured I had to go for it.

And here is where the praise begins. I have not enough time to explain how wonderful these guys were. First of all, not only were they on time, but they were early. Our move was set for 7am and they were there at 645. They showed up a half hour early to snag parking, setup operations and assess the situation. Awesome, right? Yep, until we were informed that our building's elevator was broken. So we were forced to sit and wait for over 3 hours until they fixed it. Can you imagine how angry I was? I woke up at 6am on a day I wasn't goin to work and then I just had to sit there until almost 10am. But can you imagine how early the movers (who didn't live in Manhattan) had to wake up? You would have thought they would have been furious. But nope. They were so amazingly sweet and understanding. More so than me! I was ready to go crazy on my Super. Finally they start. They worked as hard as I've ever seen movers work. They did not stop for one second. They wrapped everything professionally and quick as lightning. They were also sweet as sugar. And they spoke English, which I can't say for my Flat Rate movers. It just inspires a little more confidence when you say, hey be especially careful with that box, it's crystal from TIffany's and you know they at least understand what you're saying.

The move took about 5 hours total once we were able to get going. They included 3 free wardrobe boxes and were very mindful for the rest of the closet stuff not to use the most expensive boxes. He used 2 smaller boxes because he said, hey I can fit these in 2 of these which is less money than one wardrobe box. They wrapped our flatscreen so professionally we could not believe it.

When we went over the final numbers with us, tallying the promised rate and boxes purchased, the whole move was right at $711.  I was waiting to argue about all those little incurred costs and see if they tried to tack any fee on to my "Flat" rate they had given me and guess what? Nada! They only charged me 8$ for the 2 extra boxes they built for me (and taxes obv). I could NOT believe it.

I cannot tell you how impressed we were with these guys. They're based out of Brooklyn so if you live in the area I highly recommend them. Nothing broken the entire move. Not even a light bulb. No scratches on the newly painted walls or the furniture. They were clean and did not smell (ridic I know but the Flat Rate guys had such bad B.O. before the move even started at 8am that it was difficult to bear.

Here is my Smartypanties advice to save money on your move. Get boxes ahead of time and pack everything up that you possibly can. You'd be surprised how many boxes you can get from stores like Staples, Duane Reade, CVS, etc. for free. I would stay away from Grocery stores because I am sooo scared of bugs. Though I did steal Fresh Direct boxes people had had delivered to our building. Also, if you know of any friends moving in the near future before you ask them to save their boxes, one of the fiance's friends is moving in a week so our living room is still stuffed with our boxes. No reason he can't just use ours though. Buy Mattress bags for your bed and couch. This summer bedbugs have been on the rise and I am none too pleased. If you don't want your mattress wrapped in a dirty blanket or in a used bag, splurge and pick these up at a moving store near you. They're about $10 each and you'll need one for the mattress and the box spring but they're worth it. We also bought one and used it for the couch. Then they wrapped blankets around the plastic and I could breathe a sigh of relief (even if they totally thought I was OCD).

Lastly, the question of whether to go Flat Rate or hourly…if you have a ton of stuff like we did and you live in a doormen/elevator building where you're subject to restrictions and elevator issues out of your control I would absolutely recommend doing flat rate like we did. I can't say for sure what would have happened if they were sitting in the truck for 3 extra hours whether we would have been charged for those hours but I sure as hell would have been nervous. Flat rate ensures with these guys that you're charged what you're promised.

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