Moving
 

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.

Check out PODS. We used a year and a half ago. Used 1 lg and 1 small was around 3K. No problems.

I am amazed that people will pay thousands of dollars to move used furniture across the country. You can buy and sell used furniture anywhere. I have never owned anything that was worth paying a mover to move thousands of miles.

This is excellent advice. Unless something has tremendous sentimental value, it will probably be cheaper to sell it and buy used down here. I recommend pods. Hire someone to help you load and unload the pods.

I think we spent more money moving some furniture than the furniture was worth.

Six years ago, I moved here from Maryland. Brought only wanted/needed items. Filled about one third of a moving van. Cost about $5,000. JK Movers.

We moved our furniture down here in Feb 23 from NW Pennsylvania, 7 U Haul pods. We did bring to much stuff...lol Anyways, it cost around 7k. That didn't include loading and unloading of the pods. U Haul does have contracts with people to do that. A lot of people say sell everything and buy here but the cost isn't equal, not even close. Especially if you have quality mattresses and furniture. I have yet to find someone locally that does sell quality instead of the factory line type stuff that falls apart in a couple of years...

I’m moving about $20,000 worth of stuff for less than $3000.

They wasn’t scam when I used them 11 years ago, maybe they gotten smart like rest of moving industry?

Looking at doing same thing from Michigan. Three U-boxes (5’ by 9’) quote was $1,800 (up to 9 day transit). 16’ PODS was about $3,000

If you were using any pods, be very aware of that the way things don’t break is that they are packed perfectly. Everything has to be positioned correctly and very tight so when it goes down the street or gets dropped on your driveway, nothing will shift. We moved with pods actually rat pack pods. We did a practice furniture shopping before we moved so we knew the comparison of what we had and what we would buy . We made the decision to bring quite a bit of our furniture here for as one of the other comments said we didn’t like what we saw here as far as the quality to price we were used to the furniture that we had purchased that was very expensive when we did and we didn’t mind not looking coastal Just a new bedroom set alone to match the same quality would’ve been significantly more than shipping. Everything we did that is something for you to decide and what works best for you of course.

The cost changed a bit per season and we were somewhere around 3K per largest pod.

The most important thing for us that I wanted to share was we found our Packers on U-Haul’s Packers recommended site. it’s kind of like an Amy’s list of names but you don’t have to be using U-Haul. We did not. We worked very closely with them coming from Denver and they were brilliant. We had multiple pods that went into storage before it came to our house so with multiple moves of the goodsand I think we had one glass broken it wasn’t even something important enough to remember. Good luck to you.

Quality Moving moved me.
 

Quality Moving moved me from Texas and it was only like $3000 for 30+ boxes, a bedframe, golf clubs, toolbox, power tools, large paintings and more. I think they gave me all the boxes too for the artwork. Very reasonable & quick. They loaded and unloaded everything from my garage. All I did was pack the boxes.Great service!
Travis +1 (352) 430-7393

1049 Mile for our move 6700$ one estimate and 650 per thousand pounds other estimate minimum of 5000 pounds. Good Luck

Moving down in July and decided to go with one 16’ PODs container ($3,150) and a small U-Haul 5x8 trailer ($240). Bringing our master BR set, queen size bed, lounger, 9x9 sectional, kitchen and personal stuff. Coming from Michigan. PODs take 9 day transit. Moving supplies including bed , chair and sofa bags, tie downs, bubble wrap, wrap, etc will be less than $500.

I estimate $4,000 without labor.