PEACE OF MIND for your treasured items
We were making a move from San Francisco to Chicago. We were not optimistic at all about a long distance move. Every other yelp review was a horror story or people paid a ridiculous amount + another ridiculous amount they were not expecting. Perhaps for this reason, we did a LOT of research. I received a variety of vague quotes from a bunch of sales people at other moving companies, was told about all these other crazy fees, insurance to ensure your stuff shows up in once piece (isn’t that the one thing that needs to happen?), window of time your stuff can show up was up to 21 days (+30 built into that) – the whole thing left us stressed and ready to sell all of our ish.
That’s when we found unpakt. We were able to plug in all of our furniture, piece by piece to see what each one would cost to move. Then we could remove them if we decided it wasn’t worth it (i.e. someone bought our TV before the move so we were able to get rid of that). We were detailed because we did not want any surprises when we got to Chicago. We loved that we could update our packing list upto 24 hours before our move. We also LOVED that we dealt directly with unpakt and they figured out the rest – this gave us complete PEACE OF MIND since they were the ones guaranteeing our move.
So we get our quote, which was by far the best out of all the companies that we contacted. I was skeptical still – assuming there would be a hidden fee later. The movers showed up in SF. Were crazy fast – moved out the boxes, wrapped up big furniture (SUPER protected!!). Then we left for Chicago and waited for our stuff to arrive. I was convinced it would not arrive for a month – even though they said 14 days was the max. Our stuff arrived within 8 days. We were kept updated by the mover driving the truck (we asked because we needed to arrange the elevator) he called us several times to keep us posted on his exact arrival time. Then they showed up. We did need to pay for the elevator fee, but we knew that would probably be initially. We were stoked that we didn’t need to pay a shuttle fee (the 18 wheeler was able to drive right into Chi to our surprise). I am recommending these guys to everyone. Do your homework, read the fine print but ultimately decide on Unpakt because they alleviate the stress that moving can cause!
