If you are currently on the verge of having to move and you are looking for the right relocation company, making sure that your movers are reliable and professional such as American Moving and Storage it is very important. Here are some questions to ask before making the final decision of choosing one moving company over the others:
- Licenses – there are many movers that do not carry a state-issued license, therefore are not allowed to provide moving services legally. To avoid them, make sure that the mover you hire carries the right licenses;
- Experience with special requests – try to figure out whether your move requires any special approaches, such as moving very bulky items on stairs or in narrow staircases or moving very fragile and sensitive, high-value items;
- Liability coverage – you need a moving company that takes responsibility for the mishaps that can occur during the moving process. Licensed relocation companies can and usually do provide two types of liability coverage: full value protection, making the mover liable for the full value of the items that get damaged or lost during the transport and released value protection, which makes the mover liable for 60 cents per pound per item lost or damaged during the transport.
Gabriel Kierson
Founder and Owner at American Moving and Storage
Gabriel Kierson is the founder and owner of American Moving and Storage, a Boulder-based licensed carrier with 28 years of operation and more than 40,000 moves completed across Colorado and the country.
A Certified Moving Consultant, Certified ProMover, and Bekins senior-certified agent, he leads a company that maintains an annual claims rate under 1% and crew tenure averaging nearly seven years. He writes on residential and commercial moving, long-distance and mountain logistics, containerized storage, and specialty-item handling.