Move Me Again Transportation

This will be a different type of review.

In the eighties I loved a song (and still do) by Comsat Angels.. You Move Me. The chorus of the song went thus:

You move me like a missing piece
You move me like a leap of faith
You move me, it comes down to this
You move me and give me one good reason

Well, I haven't yet moved, but I am blessed to have found Tara and her team, who will be taking care of every aspect of my upcoming move from Toronto to Wawa, Ontario.. a town way up north literally in the middle of nowhere.

I've been seriously depressed for the last two years and needed to make some serious soul-searching life changes, hence the decision to move out of the huge megalopolis that is Toronto and up to Wawa.. God's country.. wide open spaces..

While I was happily married for 22 years, my ex was a rising financial corporate superstar, and we followed her upwardly mobile career with several moves to different cities. All were so-called "corporate moves" I.e. we had to do literally nothing at both ends. We would leave the house as if we were going out for a walk on moving day and a crew of four packers would arrive and carefully pack everything in our home. The packages would then be loaded by three men who would arrive in a 48 foot tractor trailer rig, load in, and head to our new city. I just had to transport our goldfish in one of our cars. The truck would arrive the next day, unloaded, and everything unpacked and placed where the ex wanted things placed.

So fast forward through divorce, messed up relationships, depression, other issues, a decision to make a fresh start in what's essentially an outpost as opposed to a major city, and then somehow I was blessed (or guided) to find Tara. She is a very compassionate, caring soul. She has great depth and understanding of my current situation and has taken a burden off of me by putting in to place all of the services that I need, so that I have no worries at all about what lies ahead and how I'm to begin to get there. This is one amazing woman, and I am looking forward to this move like no other I've experienced.

Tara: you move me :).

Move size: 3 Bedroom Home Service cost: $4000

I just want to say Thank you to the whole team. They did a fantastic job. Tara, Nicole and the movers. They were very helpful and informative. The movers were professional and answered all my questions. I was very happy and definitely will hire them again. The movers knew it was my first time to hire movers and understood my concerns and they went above and beyond to assure me that everything will be good. They explained to me how they transport and store the items. The only thing is I wish they got more than 2 people to load of my stuff, I felt bad for the movers. They could have used an extra man to finish the job. In the end, they were exhausted but they were very professional.

Move size: 1 Bedroom Home Service cost: $2465

Tara was great. The movers worked very hard. They also took quite good care of our stuff (very little breakage).

My move was much larger than they expected (and even than other companies had estimated). It was also long-distance (Toronto-Montreal). They sent a couple of people to give a little extra help in the morning, but they were gone before lunch. The remaining two had a huge job. Even with me working all day along with them, they didn't finish until after 7pm --- and we were all exhausted.

I think they are likely a great company for those who have a smaller long distance move where two workers can handle the unpack. They probably can also handle a large local move, where they can more easily add additional workers from their company. But they needed at least four people unpacking us all day rather than two, and I guess there was no way to change that on the day.

Due to the exhaustion the also did not move all of our stuff to the correct floor as promised in the contract. I honestly didn't blame them, and decided not to hold them to the letter of the contract---I felt so sorry for the workers by that point. But that meant a lot more work for me in the next couple of days, when I could have been renovating or painting instead.

Finally - make sure you get your stuff weighed. Don't take the flat rate. In my case the flat rate offered was 42% over the actual weight. (Likely the error was due to how tired they felt :), I didn't get the sense they were trying to be dishonest).

Move size: 4+ Bedroom Home Service cost: $9676

I was concerned at the start, as I had been warned that these companies rip you off, lead you on with unrealistic time frames etc. However, I was pleasantly surprised. My house sale was done quickly and efficiently. I even ended up with more money than initially offered. With the Relocation Consultant at Move Me Again Transportation, she kept me up to date with everything. It was great to have just one person to deal with, and she was brilliant.
Thanks guys, Mark, Victor and John for making this move so painless. And a special thanks for Tara & her team at Move Me Again Transportation.

Move size: 3 Bedroom Home Service cost: $4950

DO NOT HIRE THIS COMPANY. Absolutely horrendous experience! 0 stars. Spend the little extra money to get an actual professional company, save yourself the hassle and stress.

I hired this company to move myself and my girlfriend from Moncton to Halifax, which entailed loading my apartment and her apartment (both in Moncton), storing our things for 1 month, and then unloading our things in our new apartment in Halifax. I had set up the initial loading day to be anytime on our before the last day of our leases. I could not have been more clear about my need to be out of our apartments on the last day of our lease, to which Tara (the customer service rep) assured me would be easily done. I had this arrangement set up over a month in advance, so was reasonably confident they should be able to follow through with their promise and so I paid the deposit to set it up.

Fastforward to THE DAY I NEED TO BE OUT OF THE APARTMENTS. We planned on getting my things and my girlfriends things midday, this got pushed to the evening. No big issue. Then they want to push it so that my girlfriends things would be picked up late at night, and my things would likely need to be picked up early the next morning. I now have to plead with my landlord to let me keep my things in my apartment longer than we agreed, to which I was able to do. I then get an update that they will be picking my girlfriends stuff up at around 1 in the morning, and my stuff at around 6am. This is absolutely ridiculous at this point, but it's really all I have since I have to be out of my apartments so I agree. Its now 4:30pm the day I need to be out of my apartments, and I get a TEXT FROM THE DRIVER telling me he CAN'T DO IT ALL. I'm now completely screwed, with no movers only hours before I legally have to be out of my apartments. I'm calling move-me again and emailing over and over to NO ANSWER! They won't answer my calls or emails, and even disconnect the phoneline so I can't leave a message! So now not only do I have no movers, I can't even get ahold of them to get my deposit back.

They should be ashamed that this is how they conduct business, completely unprofessional and ridiculous. I was nothing but civil the whole time, accommodating their scheduling screw ups up until the point where I was fine with having my things picked up in the middle of the night, so long as it got done. They should have known they couldn't get my things when I wanted way in advance and told me to find someone else, instead they completely screwed me and then wouldn't answer my calls or emails. Never use this company.

Move size: 2 Bedroom Home Service cost: $1200