4 years ago
I couldn't have asked for a better experience. I ...
I couldn't have asked for a better experience. I was worried about my long distance move since I have a friend who made the same move a few months ago using another, less reputable moving company (Alliance Relocation Systems, in case you're wondering) and it took her a month to get her stuff and some of it was damaged or missing. I recently moved from Maryland to Florida and decided to use Town & Country Movers based on their reviews as well as their proximity to my house. Juan and his crew showed up at my house promptly at 9am Friday morning and loaded up my belongings into a semi in a little over two hours. This required them to carry everything down my driveway, which is quite steep. I was worried this would be an additional charge but there was none. I was expecting it to take them a week or so to get my stuff down to Florida but I was told they would be there on Sunday, two days later. To say that was a pleasant surprise is an understatement. Sure enough, I get a call from Juan on Saturday night confirming that they would be ready to unload at 10am on Sunday. I meet them Sunday morning at the storage unit where I'm keeping my stuff and Juan and his coworker are there right on time. It was nice to see my stuff in the hands of the same people and in the same truck that it was loaded onto. No subcontractors like so many movers use. I was concerned that they would have trouble getting the truck into the storage facility, which proved to be a valid concern. If you've ever been at a public storage facility, you know that there are rows of buildings. There wasn't sufficient space for Juan to maneuver the truck to the entrance of the building my storage unit was in so he ended up having to park the truck one row over from my building. Juan said that in situations like this, they normally have to get a smaller truck to "shuttle" everything over to where it needs to be off-loaded and this would cost an extra $500 plus the extra time to load and unload my stuff. I wasn't happy but understood and felt is was reasonable since they couldn't get the truck any closer than about 200 feet from my storage unit. However, after a few minutes of Juan talking with his coworker, they decided that they would use the carts provided by the storage company and literally walk everything from the truck to the storage unit, saving me lots of money and time. They were done in less than 2 hours and had stacked everything in the storage unit with room to spare. Juan even gave me a cold bottle of water as I stood outside in the Florida heat, holding the door open for them as they carried my stuff inside. Everyone I dealt with was fantastic and I would highly recommend using Town & Country Movers.