I personally would never move with Two Guys Moving again, but they might be the right fit for you if you have cheap stuff that just needs to get transported from one location to another.\r
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I've moved 6 times over the last 10 years, and I've always gone with the ""big guys"" (Atlas, United Van Lines, etc.), but this time I made the mistake of choosing a local company with no van line credentials. Boy, is there a difference. You may not realize the difference unless you've gone with the ""big guys"" before and you know what quality packing & moving is all about.\r
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You have to understand what you are getting yourself into here if you decide to move with these guys. These are not ""professional"" packers or movers... they're just a few friendly guys with a truck who will help shlep your stuff from one location to another. These guys are the equivalent of calling up your friends to help you move your stuff. That is, they'll throw some stuff in some boxes for you (if you request the ""packing"" service), they'll carry your bare furniture onto your truck without protecting it, and then they'll drive it to the new location. I would recommend calling your friends instead.\r
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If you are a professional with expensive furniture, or if you expect a high degree of quality and care, these guys are not for you. They also came unprepared. But again, if you're a college kid with a few $100 IKEA desks, you should consider calling these guys.\r
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They asked me several times if my furniture items were from IKEA while shaking the items, and I was like, ""Um, no, that is a $3,000 bookshelf that you are shaking back & forth."" I honestly don't think these guys have ever seen high-quality furniture before. They're certainly not trained on how to protect it, disassemble it, or handle it.\r
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The #1 basic fundamental rule of moving furniture & breakable items is that you WRAP the items so that they don't get damaged. But these guys don't even have the basic respect for other people's furniture. None of my furniture was wrapped, and now there are serious scratches in my expensive dressers, cabinets, paintings, and picture frames. \r
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I had several problems with this move. In a nutshell, they were unprofessional (showed up late & didn't even know the 2 destination addresses), unprepared (they asked ME if I had packing materials since they didn't have enough... they ended up using my bathroom towels to protect my dishes), they were sloppy (they didn't wrap any of my expensive furniture like my $2,000 dresser or even bother taking the clothes out of the dresser... they just carried the furniture bare into the truck with the dresser drawers sliding open while they were carrying them and I had to run behind them to close the dresser drawers. Same thing with my expensive mattress & box spring... they just packed them bare into the truck, and they both arrived ripped on 2 corners!! Now I have a ripped mattress & box spring), they didn't pack my items properly (just threw office stuff & clothes into boxes with no protection -- they didn't even bring the tall wardrobe boxes, they brought the small ones so all of my long trenchcoats & sportjackets arrived completely wrinkled on the bottom halves; plus, 2 of my wine glasses arrived broken and 2 of my glass picture frames arrived broken), they didn't take proper care when handling my $4,000 wooden bed frame (which now has cracked wood underneath because they refused to disassemble it properly) or my expensive paintings (some of which have chipped frames)... and didn't move my piano because they ""forgot"" to bring the piano moving equipment, even though I specifically told the owner Jon M. that I needed my piano moved (although this is probably a blessing in disguise, because I'm sure that would have arrived damaged). So now I'm left searching for another company to move my piano.
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