Moving Companies - How To Choose A Local Mover

Meet Nancy. She is a no-nonsense career minded woman who has decided to move to Manhattan from Brooklyn. She plans to rent an apartment here primarily to save money and time on commuting. She knows that since her new office is also situated in the heart of Manhattan city, she will be able to cut down on her traveling and shuttling between home and office..

There is only one challenge which lies in her path. She has never moved or relocated before at anytime in her life. May be once, when she was a kid but then, she was too young to know what was going on at that point in time. She knows that when she hires the services of a local New York moving company, she is going to entrust that company with her precious and prized belongings. She just wants to be doubly sure that the local moving company in New York which she chooses is the one which she can trust blindly.

How do we help her make the right decision? Here are some very important pointers for her:

1. She can research various local moving companies in New York through their websites. She can read about their past history and the various kinds of offers they give.

2. She can check with the Better Business Bureau and find out if any grievances or complaints have been filed against the company.

3. She can also check if the local mover in New York belongs to any trade organizations, such as the American Moving & Storage Association or a state movers association.

4. Another important research point which can work to her benefit is to find out if the local mover is registered with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The website of FMCAS gives a list of only "interstate" companies, meaning those that can move from one state to another. However, you can use an interstate mover, even if you're moving locally within the state.

5. She can check if the New York local company whose services she is going to take has a "dispute settlement" plan in place. This will make reassure her that she will not have any problems with the moving company and even if they do rise, they will be ably resolved.

6. She can contact her friends, neighbors, colleagues and find out if they have had a good or fantastic experience with a particular moving company. Word of mouth publicity is the best publicity for any company.

7. She can check whether the moving is insured or bonded. Highly regarded moving companies whether they are local or interstate, will offer some kind of insurance against damage to her goods or belongings.

8. She should try to get estimates from more than one moving company in New York. This should happen only after she has short-listed some reliable moving companies. She can get a quick estimate on the Internet or simply call up the company for the estimate. A good moving company will always arrange for their representative to come over to her place to see how much share of the belongings can actually be moved. She has to keep the details about the floor of her current residence, the floor of the new residence, the address of her current residence and the address of her new home she will be moving to, ready to get an estimate done. She should let the moving company know if there is a lift or an elevator in either or both of the residences. The other bit of information which a moving company needs is if there is parking space for the moving truck in either or both of the residences. If she lives in apartment which restricts moving hours to certain timings only, then she should let the moving company know about the same also. Nancy can also assume at what hours the traffic would be on the lesser side and instruct the moving company to dispatch the truck accordingly.

New York moving services which do local business charge by the hour only. Like mentioned above in Nancy's case, the circumstances like the floor you presently reside on, the floor you will be moving to, the presence of an elevator on either of the buildings (buildings in affluent areas of New York like Manhattan which has a lot of high rise buildings have elevators in them), the number of luggage and packages that you have and the peak hours of the New York traffic can affect the duration of the move and cause the price for the move to go up also.

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