You have to trust all your worldly possessions to some company and hope they deliver them back to you when you want them, where you want them, and within a reasonable price range. Sometimes, it can feel like you are being held hostage. It's been rated as the third most highly pressured experience next to going to jail or getting married. Many of you have read or seen news stories about movers or heard accounts from friends relating some atrocity a mover had done to an unsuspecting customer. The average citizen moves 7 times in their lifetime.
Movers do it every day.
The tips on this page are suggestions. I do not accept any liability or give any guarantees that if you follow these tips it will change the quality of your move. They are based on my experience as a professional mover and are meant quite sincerely to simply help anyone who will care to wade through this. I believe in the adage an educated consumer is better for business. I am not a programmer, so this page contains no fancy graphics or colors.