Household moving, whether local or long distance is an important task. That is why at Mark the Mover moving company we provide an Atlanta Movers Checklist to assist our moving customers. Whether packing yourself or hiring our movers and packers, fell free to download and print the checklist found at our website by clicking the link above. We would love to help with the household relocation chores of loading, unloading and re-arranging. We can help you with all these tasks as well as packing, and we sell moving and packing supplies.

Relocation is time-taking, but you can speed the process on moving day with a smart choice in moving companies. Hiring a professional moving company eases the tensions of relocation. You will prevent stress by using a trusted name for 30 years, often recommended for moving and packing by your friends and neighbors.

Use our moving and relocation checklist to plan your move. Throw away the useless items or hold a garage sale or contribute to charity. Reduce your moving inventory to speed moving and reduce required packing supplies to pack your household items properly. Your many fragile items and delicate collectibles should be carefully packed in packing paper or bubble wrap. Call our moving consultants at 404-351-0018 for tips on packing fragile items. Label boxes with a big marker. Pack the least used items first and the most used items last. You should start packing weeks before moving day, you can pack off season items and goods kept on attic in the early stage of packing. Items that are not used frequently and can be packed right away. Label boxes with a big packing box permanent sharpie marker.

When packing the last items, packing by room is recommended. Leave the room completely packed and labelled. Room wise packing helps keep you organized. Make it sure to pack kitchen and kid’s room in last. Do not forget to label the boxes after packing items in the carton.

Based on floor space packed to ceiling with average mix of household goods, i.e. fully pack storage closet, garage or truck.

Square feet with man-hours to load, unload, recommended crew size and elapsed time with recommended crew.

20-2-1/2-1
60-6-4/2-2
100-7-5/3-2
200-10-7/4-3
300-16-13/4-4
400-18-16/4-5

Local commercial directories are controlled by a small number of information aggregators. A listing service with a relationship with these four companies can submit updates to business listings to four places and claim they have fixed more than a thousand possible ‘yellow page’ urls.

Most resources of this sort have a negligible utilization. Google has the most usage, followed by bing, and for good measure make sure your listings are accurate on Apple maps, yahoo and mapquest. That covers more than 99% of lookups.

Axciom, Factual, InfoGroup and Localeze

You have to feel sorry for this family that thought they had found an incredible deal, far lower than any other moving company. But the deal turned out to be too good to be true. The fact is that there is an excellent web-site, started by a couple of women, not in any way affiliated with us, called movingscam.com – Now movingscam.com tells us one honest truth that would have been a lot of help for the couple in this story, if you want to move for the least amount of money, rent a truck and pack it yourself. They would never have lost control of their possessions if they would have moved themselves.

The story is at the MyFox Atlanta website;

http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/I-Team-Real-Movers-20110628-am-sd

and

http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/17909074/i-team-real-movers-part-2

The first step these companies do is to throw you a lower price, not just a little lower but much lower. At Mark the Mover, more than three fourths of our moves are done at an hourly rate, so our less than honest competitors call us, pose as customers on the phone and get our rates. Then, they always offer people calling around 30 – 36 $ an hour less than what we charge. From the story; “the quote changed” Of course it did. A company has certain expenses to offer a service. No company can magically offer something for half the price. Reputable companies are up front with what things cost. When you are arranging in advance for a service, there is no such thing as getting close-out or last years model. “we feel like we’ve been tricked and manipulated”

Yes you were!

You thought that someone had saved the day. They offered an explanation, we just happen to have an empty truck going in that direction … and you thought you had a great deal. But the consumer did not check with the BBB or look at on-line reviews at Yelp, Kudzu.com or ask friends, they just hoped they were dealing with a reputable moving company.

We are sorry to have to admit that the moving industry has its share of scam artists. And that is why we value our reputation and protect our reputation. We can’t do that by trying to compete with companies that just try to undercut our quotes with prices they never intend to honor. Don’t waste your time, when you here something that is too good to be true, it probably is.