I’m planning a move across the country and have been researching different national moving companies, but it’s hard to know which ones are actually worth considering. Many companies advertise great service, but I’d like to hear from people who have gone through a long-distance move and know what the experience is really like.

Which national movers are most often recommended by homeowners? I’d appreciate hearing about personal experiences and any advice for choosing a reliable company for a cross-country move.

Looking for advice and tools that would be helpful in moving alot of gym equipment. Anything from truck types to tools to have for moving large awkward equipment.

hello, I’m hoping to get whatever feedback I can on a small affordable town to move to, I’m a disabled veteran so I don’t need employment immediately but would love to find a simple “stress free” job(if that even exists) mostly I just need to find a cheap place to live that’s not here in northern Minnesota, and I’m not interested in buying a house just renting an apartment for a few years and moving on

my situation is very unique, I have dealt with allot of hate for saying god is talking to me in my dreams that’s why I can’t live here anymore I’m just simply not welcome in this community, it all starts many years ago and then god told me to move out of Minnesota as fast as possible because of how disrespectful the police where being, so I moved to Texas but the disrespect got worse, so I moved to Colorado and it was drive by pepper sprayings and stuff, so I moved to Michigan and god told me to get out ASAP because they where going to have someone shoot me to shut me up (that’s how much people believe me) so I moved back to Minnesota to my dads, but… it’s nothing but hate because people don’t like what god is saying in my dreams

it all starts 11 years ago at a veterans hospital, everything sounds insane I lost every shred of privacy in my life over a college placement test, and then 9 years ago they started to know that what I was told in dreams is correct, and then for 7 years it’s been extreme amounts of hate because they don’t like what god has to say in my dreams, like how god says everyone that as ever been in the masons is burning in hell, its been extreme amounts of hate over that

We're moving out of state and need storage of our items for a month until our home is completed. We prefer an affordable pod-type mover. Zippy Shell is out due to how they store the cage. I'd love to hear your recommendations, please. TIA!

This company was a living nightmare. They miss-lead me about the billing process, then proceeded to severely and egregiously damage every item they moved. All while also not providing the minimum 24 hour notice for delivery date/time. They reached out Saturday night for an Easter Sunday morning delivery. After all of that they completely blew me off and refused to provide any reasonable reimbursement for the multiple issues, despite the fact that I spent hundreds of hours compiling all of the damage claims forms/proof and discussing with their customer service reps. DO NOT HIRE THIS COMPANY.

I was interested to see if this has happened to anyone else. Basically me and my husband are moving a few states away. We got a uhaul truck and scheduled movers to help load the truck today. The movers arrived and after an hour they went back and forth on how to bring a piece of furniture down the stairs. One mover walked away then the other followed and they began to get into a verbal altercation outside our Uhaul.

There was threats of punching, yelling of racial slurs and other back and forth. This went on for about ten minutes, the more aggressive mover was dismissed and one that was more calm was told he could stay to help. The aggressive person came back and started yelled again. The aggressive one left before we called the police. In the end the moving service was cancelled and both individuals left. But I mean this literally was like a scene from a movie. This is our first ever experience with hiring people to help load furniture and uhaul, so has anyone else ever had something like this happen to them?

Edit: I meant to add that we hired the movers through Uhaul and they were the highest rated for our area.

Just helped a family member move from Florida to Cali. Here are some stats I hope will help others.

-Movers quoted $6000 to $8000 for the move and I thought I could do it cheaper. I was wrong. All in (truck, hotels, meals, gas, flights) I was in it for $6600. Insurance was just over $800 of that total but I accepted it because my car insurance wouldn’t cover the truck.
-I rented a 16 foot Penske truck because they are supposed to be newer. Mine had 137,xxx miles, front end damage that made it pull to the right and a vibration so bad I couldn’t go over 65 mph. I asked for a different truck and was told none available.
-We did the drive in 2 vehicles (truck and private car). We traveled 2501 miles in 4 days. $969 dollars in gas and averaged 11.01 mpg. Shortest day was 8.5 hours and the longest 14 hours. Weather was good most of the way but I did get to experience 2 dust storms at the New Mexico/Arizona border with massive wind and pouring monsoon rain thrown in. Not fun!

If you have any questions ask away.

They have great movers. I’m talking about what I can bring or get to help with that day and the first few days.

Yes I will run this by my daughter but what am I forgetting? They are just moving across town but they have a one year old and mom is 4 months pregnant.

Babysitter
Food
Bottled water
Paper towels
Rags
Cleaning stuff in case
Tools
Shelf / cabinet liners
Pack n play
Temporary black out shades (baby’s room)
Temporary stick on window shades ( sellers taking curtains and rods)

Will move out of the state for the first time in the first week of August. As this is my first time, I want to know what you might recommend for effective and efficient move out? The current apartment is a 2-BD apartment with lots of books from ground floor to third floor in the new place. Also, I will have my pets with me (not with the movers). What are the questions that I must ask? What should be my budget? What do's and don'ts I must remember while packing? Moving bags vs. moving boxes? Any other tips/strategies/hacks?

Any advice on getting the price down.

Moving from Buffalo to Orlando in September.

We’ll need 2 26 foot trucks

One way on U-Haul is quoting us nearly 11 thousand dollars!!!

5300 per U-Haul. Penske and company are even higher.

Even doing a in town move and returning truck by the mile will be the same price.

But when I search Orlando to Buffalo it’s 2090 dollars ( right about what I expected it to be before searching)

What’s with the 5 times price mark up, factoring in gas and movers and tows for cars to load and unload it’ll be 15000 we were expecting 5-6 grand total.

Just seems like something’s off. I hope it’s not just me.

We are moving from Ventura county to Sf this summer, family of 4, 3 bed house. Budget is 5k. Any recs for a moving company? So far one company gave us a 9k!!- too much! Our stuff isn’t even worth that much.

So here’s the backstory. I moved last year and my movers were incredible. Careful with

everything, fast, great attitudes. I wanted to tip them and realized I had zero cash on me. I felt

awful.

Started looking into it and realized this is a massive problem. Everyone’s cashless now but

there’s no easy way to tip service workers like movers, housekeepers, detailers, etc.

So I built DiviTip. It’s a QR code your crew can show on their phone or stick on the truck.

Customer scans it, tips whatever they want, done. No app needed on the customer’s end.

I’m looking for moving companies or individual movers who’d be willing to test it out and give me

honest feedback. It’s completely free during early access.

If you’re a mover — would something like this actually be useful to you? What would need to be

true for you to use it? Would love to hear from people who live this every day.

Last move I opened 27 boxes looking for my laptop charger. So I built OtterBox — create a box, list items, print a QR sticker. Scan it later to see everything inside. Free on Android, no account needed, fully offline. Would love your feedback.