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Hello -
My husband and I will more than likely be moving to another apartment in a few months. We are debating if we want to do it ourselves w/ some friends or hire movers to do it. Of course if the movers do it - they'll be done SO quickly compared to if we do it, but it would probably cost way more money. We are moving from a 2nd floor apartment to a 3rd floor apartment - it's probably about 6 miles away. Our current apartment is a 1/1 w/ a small den and we want to move to a 2/2.
In your experience on average how much did professional movers cost? How quick were they? I know it will vary by location, just trying to get a ball park figure.
We are moving from a 2nd floor apartment to a 3rd floor apartment - it's probably about 6 miles away.
We are debating if we want to do it ourselves w/ some friends or hire movers to do it.
It really depends not only on location, but on how much stuff you have to move. Rather than try to get an apples-to-oranges comparison from people whose experience may be very different from yours, I'd go directly to the source: contact a couple of local movers with good reputations and have them come over, look at your stuff, and give you an estimate.
Personally, if you're moving to a third floor walk-up, unless you're young and strong and/or don't have heavy stuff, I'd never try to do it myself.
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Are you and your friends still in college?
No - we range in age from our mid 20's to mid 30's. A friend of mine who is in his mid 20's has a brother though who is in college.
Not of our stuff is overly heavy - except out ancient TV. LOL. We have the huge 27 inch box TV still. We want to get a new one, but that is low on our priority list right now. If it ends up not working than that is one thing, but it works just fine. I would honestly say that TV is probably the heaviest thing we have. Our couch might be about the same weight - but since the weight is distributed better and 2 people can carry it - it would probably seem lighter.
Right now - I want to kind of avoid calling people since we are not 100% moving. Just looking to maybe move end I just was curious on average how much more it might be. If we did it ourselves, it would of course just be the rental truck, mileage on the truck and pizza for our friends. However, the time it would take would easily multiple.
Try renting a Uhaul and go to movinghelp.com. They are also linked on the Uhaul website. You rent the truck, they will load, drive and unload the truck for you. We paid $160 for two guys who were great, professional and quick. Best move we ever had. You can have your stuff packed or they will pack for you, but they charge by the hour. We had everything packed when they arrived.
I rented the truck when Uhaul opened. They arrived at our place at 9 am, loaded the truck, drove it to our new place, unloaded it and I had the truck back to the rental yard by 12:30 pm. We had no appliances and little furniture as we bought new stuff. We had a couple of dressers, a large Japanese screen, some tables and enough boxes to fill a 14 foot truck.
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Try renting a Uhaul and go to movinghelp.com. They are also linked on the Uhaul website. You rent the truck, they will load, drive and unload the truck for you. We paid $160 for two guys who were great, professional and quick. Best move we ever had. You can have your stuff packed or they will pack for you, but they charge by the hour. We had everything packed when they arrived.
I rented the truck when Uhaul opened. They arrived at our place at 9 am, loaded the truck, drove it to our new place, unloaded it and I had the truck back to the rental yard by 12:30 pm. We had no appliances and little furniture as we bought new stuff. We had a couple of dressers, a large Japanese screen, some tables and enough boxes to fill a 14 foot truck.
Thank you SO much for that info. If we did it ourselves we would still be loading the truck at 12:30 probably! LOL. Last time we moved we had a 14 foot truck and it was perfect.
I cheated. My brother was just coming out of rehab. I got him and two of his friends who were also homeless and rented a truck. We moved from a 3 bedroom house to a 2nd fl one bdroom apt across town and I think the truck cost about $30. My brother and his friends only wanted a hoagie and a 10-pack of bus tokens each($15.ea). $75. for a half days move was pretty good!
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I cheated. My brother was just coming out of rehab. I got him and two of his friends who were also homeless and rented a truck. We moved from a 3 bedroom house to a 2nd fl one bdroom apt across town and I think the truck cost about $30. My brother and his friends only wanted a hoagie and a 10-pack of bus tokens each($15.ea). $75. for a half days move was pretty good!
It really depends not only on location, but on how much stuff you have to move. Rather than try to get an apples-to-oranges comparison from people whose experience may be very different from yours, I'd go directly to the source: contact a couple of local movers with good reputations and have them come over, look at your stuff, and give you an estimate.
Personally, if you're moving to a third floor walk-up, unless you're young and strong and/or don't have heavy stuff, I'd never try to do it myself.
Good advice to get an estimate if you're considering pro movers. However, get a binding estimate, in writing. If you don't, their verbal estimate may mean nothing. But it sounds like you could do-it-Yourself probably. The old CRT TV--might be time to lose that. You can buy used LCD TV's all day long on Craig's List, often for not much money, under $100 even.......
I paid ~$300 each time I moved. This was in the San Antonio area. The first time it was for work and over 50 miles so I counted it against my income on my taxes.
It was worth way more though. I put everything in boxes, then they move everything. No sweat. The last time I moved I paid them to pack too. It was a bit more but I literally did nothing but call them then unpack.
The thought of carrying my heavy-ass couches up stairs makes my back hurt.
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