Moving is stressful at best. Aviv Moving and Storage made it moreso. From the start, they tried to ""upsell"" me, encouraging me to hire 3 movers for a very small move. They arrived half an hour early. I told them I was not ready and the foreman really pushed (knocked, called a couple of times), to get me to let them begin, regardless of the fact that they were early.
The second mover was very nice, but it seems had been instructed to go slowly, taking one small box at a time. I had large, very square living room furniture that would probably not have all fit up the narrow, winding staircase to my new attic apt., but Aviv handled the situation very poorly, and did not seem to have a lot of skill navigating challenging spaces. They struggled for a long time before determining that none of the living room set would fit (thus running up the bill even more). The furniture therefore had to be left in the yard and naturally they were happy to sell me expensive plastic coverings which I was stuck buying. I was furious. The whole process of moving a one-bedroom apt.'s worth of furniture from one apt. to another that was maybe a mile and a half away took several hours.
This all happened a number of years ago, I was only prompted to write this as I am moving again, and Aviv is the first sponsored hit that comes up on Google. I thought people should know.
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