My boyfriend tried to use the Gentle Movers and storage to simplify his move, but they ended up complicating things tenfold.
First they were 6+ hours late the day he was to put his things on the truck to go into storage. This put the moving truck in the middle of rush hour traffic in the North End, and THEN they claimed that it was going to take 5 hours to move a few boxes, a couch, a bed and a dresser so they would need permits from the city and would have to come back another time. 5 HOURS for a couch, a bed, and a dresser???? What!?!?!?
Then they tried to charge my boyfriend $224 for moving nothing! $95 for the hour of them appearing (after us waiting for 6 hours on them) + the additional $127 to obtain permits (which only cost $35 at most) from the city. My boyfriend finally gave in and paid the $95 for the hour, but said he would get the permit himself from city hall. When he called the moving company the next day to schedule the time that he should get the permit for, they started giving him the run-around again.
He finally cut his losses and decided it was easier to move himself and put his own things into storage himself.... Imagine how much it would have cost if they actually moved anything?!?!?!?!?
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