Movers, Atlanta GA 30318

Coworkers and friends can help you find a moving company with a good reputation, and reading reviews to get a feel for how the moving company treats its customers are a good way to choose an Atlanta moving company. With Google® and the internet this research is much easier than in the past, checking reviews and emailing family and friends. Relocating your household is not as simple as picking a florist, but a similar process to start with is used.

To move your home and furnishings effectively takes proper planning. Selecting the right Atlanta Moving Company is part of the process, and we want to show you why choosing Mark the Mover is a well justified conclusion and how to measure Atlanta moving companies in general. First of all, a reputable moving company should have a website with contact information that is easily found on the internet. Run an internet search for Atlanta Movers and Mark the Mover will be one of the first Atlanta moving companies. Make sure the moving company shows their street address on their website. Disreputable moving companies like to hold your possessions hostage for more money, and won’t show you their address. Other companies use fake addresses.

Don’t use a moving company with a fake moving address. One of our Atlanta moving company competitors lists the state capitol building as their address. Another uses the Five Points Station in downtown Atlanta as their address. There are red flags. When a moving company is dishonest with their customers as to where they are located, they may be in the habit of ripping off consumers. Some movers don’t seem to have an address at all, or their address is in an office or condominium building. This is also a red flag, as these may be moving brokers, adding their commissions to the cost of your move. They then sell your information to the most desperate moving companies that may not have enough money after these commissions to do a good job for you.

Read reviews, but pay more attention to Kudzu and Yelp than Yahoo or Citysearch. Some web-sites make it very easy for tricky brokers and fly by night moving companies to enter their own fake reviews. but Kudzu and Yelp do some policing. Watch out for reviews that are too good, or list a number or always mention the brand name. Some companies pay for reviews with discounts, gift cards or bribes. Sometimes they are even decent companies, but at Mark the Mover we never pay for reviews or do fake reviews. While I don’t like the idea of offering a discount or a bribe for a review, I am more wary of the companies that enter their own fake reviews, so look out for reviews that come in clumps, mention the brand name too much, sound too syruppy or just all look suspicious.

If a site has an overwhelmingly positive number of reviews they are either fake or a good sign you are on the right track. You can also find sites like the Georgia Public Service Commission and movingscam.com where they do an independent job of collecting complaints and measuring the quality of movers. These are actually better than the BBB which tends to favor companies that pay higher rates of dues. Then there is that Angie’s kind of a thing, that is very aggressive about preventing companies from posting fake reviews. If they discover that a company is using their uncles and neighbors for paid reviews, they probably have a sever frown for that.

Also the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (DOT) and their safersys.gov website collects information on movers, like our competitor that had their DOT revoked. You can look up fines and safety violations there. But remember, No company is perfect, but the more complaints at the BBB, the GPSC (Georgia Public Service Commission) and other consumer agencies the bigger the business better be, and if it is a brand new business, while they may have no complaints, they may also not be a good choice. Of course we also have a rival that changes the name of their company every year or two, claims to have been in business forever, but has no record under their current business name.

So when you are searching for the correct Atlanta moving company we hope you will consider Mark the Mover, but at any rate, know how to choose the right moving company, and we hope you have a successful houshold relocation!

Some people say that you need less than a third of your stuff. I know that I hardly touch two thirds of the clothes in my closet. We found this article called “6 Genius Moving Tips from Reddit” at the North Milpitas Self Storage blog. Enjoy!

While the Coke Classic snarls traffic along I20 near Decatur Ga, Friday is what is often called moving day in the golf tournament world. That’s the day when golfers risk not making the cut. Normally with over 100 players in the tournament, the field is cut in half after Friday’s round.

Moving day is also a good day to have Mark the Mover on your team. The quiet but efficient Atlanta moving company has more than three decades experience with Decatur Ga households. We have moved thousands of families around the Atlanta area over the years. That’s why we ask moving customers to ask their friends and neighbors about their moving experience. Mark the Mover doesn’t budget a lot of money towards expensive television commercials or giant billboards, at Mark the Mover our best advertising is the great job we try to do with every moving experience.

When consumers are looking for moving companies near Decatur Ga so they can make their moving day a success. Moving customers move up the leader board when they call an experienced and professional moving company near Decatur Ga and at Mark the Mover we have big, clean trucks with polite and uniformed moving crews to provide excellent service relocating your household.

Households in Alpharetta Georgia looking for a moving company sometimes start by asking friends and neighbors about the moving company they used. This works well for Mark the Mover, since we have over three decades of moving experience in Atlanta. Many people start out living in Atlanta and end up in Alpharetta over the years, while their homes accumulate finer furnishings and heavier goods. Right after college we are prone to just call as many friends with a pickup truck as we can find. After settling into our first apartment and gathering some simple furniture our next step is to call around and find the cheapest moving company we can.

But we learn our lesson. The moving company that offers the cheapest rate doesn’t usually show up on time. They break our stuff or we end up watching their every move, if you know what I mean. The fact is that when you are offering the cheapest rate, you need to cut corners on insurance, on what you can afford to pay employees, on keeping your trucks well maintained so they don’t break down. So next time we move we realize we need to pay a little more.

I’ve seen it said that the cheapest way to move is to hire some day labor and pack it yourself. But what if an accident happens, you better make sure you have an insurance umbrella that cover an unfortunate outcome. The simple fact is that moving companies that are established and licensed through the Georgia Public service commission. For a list of licensed Georgia Public Commission moving companies, go to the Mark the Mover home page at www.markthemover.com and at the bottom is a link to licensed moving companies.

It’s valuable to look at the list of licensed movers for another reason. Out of state boiler room operations advertise heavily on the internet and make impressive looking websites to appear to be a local moving company. But they in fact are charging a premium to pass your information on to unknown moving companies that cannot sell themselves. They are too new to the business, or in one case recently a moving company kept changing its name to run from the bad reputation they had developed under other names. In this case they used a name very close to a very reputable Atlanta company.

Mark the Mover has also had experience with shady operators pretending to be us and even crafting letterhead, we can only call these people imposters. One case came to light when an unhappy mover called our office to complain, and we didn’t move them. We are very sorry when this happens, but it ties back to our advice to check the Georgia Public Service Commission list of licensed movers, linked on our web page, and check the phone number you are calling to contact the moving company. For example, you reach Mark the Mover at 404-351-0018. When we call our customers, we call from 404-351-0018. Our website is www.markthemover.com and our phone number is right on our website. We sure wish everyone who wanted to use a reputable mover made sure they were dealing with the company.

Moving is stressful enough, and it is not just a runaround when end up in contact with an out of state boiler room operation, it adds to the cost of the move. The boiler room operation takes their money off the top and that adds to the cost of the move. Even the most upright of these types of operations spend sums of money on advertising, marketing and promotion. We know of one company that runs a national advertising campaign, but they pay for that by charging consumers directly for membership in their system, and in this case, they do a good job of getting people directly in touch with real moving companies.

There are free resources available to look at the reputation of moving companies though, for example when you use Google, the local listing allows consumers to review the company. They drawback is that some companies make their own fake reviews, are give their customer some sort of incentive for placing a review on Google.

So if you are ready for a stress free moving day, look up our reviews, ask your friends and neighbors, ask family and co-workers, and because we have moved thousands of households in Atlanta and Alpharetta, we’re sure you will hear good things about Mark the Mover.