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Originally Posted by Papa_lecki
What are experiences with the price of a mover, coming from the northeast - say PA or NJ? To The Villages
i am not talking about moving all our furniture, just some.
Living room furniture, boxes of kitchen stuff, towels, sheets, clothes, some fairly new mattress?
We are planning to buy a lot of new furniture.
Are we talking $7500? $10,000? $20,000?
Thanks in advance.
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Moved in May from Philadelphia area. Another relative moved slightly earlier
Mileage is a big part of the cost. Both moves were 26 foot trucks. Not huge savings on smaller truck. Two Men and a truck was approx $13,000 without packing assistance. American Van Lines was under $10,000 with packing assistance. Pricing is seasonal. Summer is peak season so will cost more.
Two Men used good English speakers who loaded, drove and unpacked at the other end. American Van lines had nonexistent customer service. I ended up calling a general number and had them look up dispatch to know when the truck would arrive to pick up after not being able to reach the official contact person and at the other end when it would drop off!
American Van Lines subcontracted to small no name service companies. People in PA end were not native English speakers although one of crew could understand English. Handed off to different crew to drive to Florida and drop off-Probably to risky for Illegals to make the interstate trip
While American Van Lines was not customer friendly, they were cheap and got the job done. They packed things well and loaded the truck with an amazing amount of stuff fitting in the truck. The Person using Two Men had a much smaller load. Warm and friendly staff.
Other major carriers tend to be more expensive than American but more customer friendly.
Could save money by using PODS or similar service and hiring staff as needed to fill/unload POD at each end. Figure on $3,000 to transport 1,000 miles plus POD rental plus cost of people you hire to fill/empty POD. PODs are available in smaller sizes for a small load.