Movers (Mooresville: flat fee, for sale, renting)

[Bound4NC]

Originally Posted by nascarnancy

I grew up in Cerritos and we are looking in the Weddington/Waxhaw area. We found the car carrier that does the auto transportation for Barret Jackson and they were pretty reasonable.

We will be the "pet transportation company". The lab will be fine and I actually think the cat will do OK. We had to take him when we had our open house 2 weeks ago as he kept catching a babby bunny and we didn't want him bringing a screaming bunny in the house! (last time he caught a full grown rabbit and somehow fit himself and the rabbit through his small kitty door!) He meowed a little while the truck was in motion and we usually sit in the truck in a park and read. He was quiet the whole time. I bought him a cat harness and leash yesterday as we will be taking our travel trailer with us and we don't want to lose him. He pretty much was not happy with the harness, it was funny though watching him walk like someone was holding him down, poor guy!

My grandmother still lives in Cerrritos (since 1970, same house) and my aunt taught at Cerritos High.

[nascarnancy]

Originally Posted by Bound4NC

My grandmother still lives in Cerrritos (since 1970, same house) and my aunt taught at Cerritos High.

I went to Gahr. My parents bought the house in 70 and my mom just sold a year and a 1/2 ago.

[Mvn2nc]

We are paying ( from the Monterey Pen.) .53 a pound for the moving company.We did pack all of it ourselves.
Our total was ( off the top of my head, not looking at paper work) i think $6,800 or so. We had 70 boxes, furniture and most of my husbands constuction tools and brand new solid doors for our new house.
We get a months free storage that is in L.A where currently our stuff is.
I thought overall this was a good price since initially my budget was $10k.

[Sugar Magnolia]

Oh my goodness! I'm sure glad we are only moving 450 miles! That sounds so expensive. You all must really want to move badly!

From the research I have done, granted, I'm on the East coast simply going South on 95. It will cost us around $3,000 and some pizza and beer for the boys doing all the lifting. That's the good part of having brother in laws. We are packing everything up ourselves and just renting a moving truck. We will have to pay for the truck rental and gas, so my estimate might be a little high, but better to err on the side of caution I think.

I cannot imagine paying what you guys are coming from the West coast. Hope you are getting relocation assistance.

[backfist]

I think I'm gonna be sick. $13,000!?!?!?

[Sugar Magnolia]

Oh I meant to say in my post that Pods are a lot more expensive than anything we looked at as far as moving. Then again like I said we are doing it ourselves, so I don't know how much a moving company would charge, but those Pods seemed ridiculous to me when I went to their website. Just be sure to shop around for the best deal.

[RedNC]

Originally Posted by Sugar Magnolia

Oh I meant to say in my post that Pods are a lot more expensive than anything we looked at as far as moving. Then again like I said we are doing it ourselves, so I don't know how much a moving company would charge, but those Pods seemed ridiculous to me when I went to their website. Just be sure to shop around for the best deal.

Two PODS for that distance is about $2600.00. What size truck are you planing on using? What are you estimating for fuel mileage? What if you have weather delays? Have you accounted for extra rental days? Not sure about a lot more expensive.

[Vicki3455]

backfist - Don't throw up yet!! Remember, our $13,000 move included $2,640 in extras (piano, organ, grandfather clock and trip to/from storage unit). PLUS the moving company driver told us that our 20,000 pounds was the 2nd biggest residential move (poundage-wise) they had ever done!! So, more "normal" size households will be cheaper. The reason that we decided to use a moving company vs. u-haul was because we also had to move 6 cats!! We figured a 4 hour plane trip would be way less stressful on all of
them than a 4 day cross country trek if we did the move ourselves.

[Bethanytedder]

Gosh, and I complained about the $200.00 that it cost us to move furniture from Bunn, NC and Micro, NC to Snow Hill, NC using a U-Haul truck. That was in 1992 so it is probably out there now. We got everything we owned at the two places in this one big truck except one item, a desk. My husband didn't want to run up 90 more miles on the truck we rented so he turned it in at Selma or Smithfield one and borrowed a regular pick-up truck to bring the last piece to Snow Hill. I bet I couldn't get everything we own now in a truck like that. First of all, Chris would fill up a truck alone with his tools and stuff, not counting the pool table. And I have all kinds of dolls and tea sets that would have to be wrapped in bubble wrap and moved. I guess it is a good thing I like it where I am.

[nascarnancy]

We filled up the back of our Suburban with donation items last Sept when we packed our first POD. No since in shipping stuff I don't want/need. I still have to go through my closet one more time.

We have 5 cars to get back, 2 to be shipped and 3 to be driven. The sub will pull our 24' travel trailer and I will pull a u-haul with my little Blazer since you can't put anything with an engine in a POD. I have an ATC and all motorized lawn stuff for the u-haul. Who will be the lucky 3rd driver? Hmmm!