I used Movers 201 in August 2019 to move from New York to the West Coast. I’m going to use them again this summer to move back from the West Coast to the East Coast, which is what brought them to mind to finally leave my review. Amir was great to work with, and I always received no-nonsense, straightforward responses to all my questions and concerns. Although I never met him in person, he was responsive and involved throughout the move whether I interacted with him by phone, text, or through the website interface. The feature that really sold me on working with Movers 201 is the moving cost calculator that’s part of their website. It’s the first time I worked with a moving company that had this feature and it was really helpful. Amir can add things for you to the calculator while you’re on the phone, or you can add them yourself. And then you can adjust the inventory of your stuff yourself or via a phone call (or text message) with Amir. The advantage for me is that I could see exactly how much, say, my couch would cost to move and I could make decisions about whether to keep or sell things based on the moving cost. I can’t believe I hadn’t used this before with other companies for previous moves — I could have saved many hundreds of dollars by not moving certain things (like the couch!). And, most importantly, the online calculator shows you the exact cost that you will pay, so we didn’t have any surprises. On moving day in New York, the team that showed up was the most organized moving team I’ve worked with before. They tagged everything, listed every single item on a paper inventory, and were one of the fastest crews I’ve worked with for any move out. For some people, to be honest, Movers 201’s exacting attention to detail could perhaps be a slight downside, because if you’ve got extra items that you didn’t account for when using the moving cost calculator, then they will need to add those and your price will be adjusted accordingly. But for me this was a plus because I’m an organized person, I like to have everything accounted for in the moving company’s inventory, and I appreciated their attention to detail, especially for a cross-country move. There was one source of stress for me — which wasn’t Movers 201 fault — which I need to mention for transparency. We didn’t have a place rented yet on the West Coast, so our stuff went into Movers 201 storage. Once we rented a place, our stuff was eventually delivered by an 18-wheeler tractor trailer to our destination. (Movers 201 is based in New Jersey, so I believe that they work with other companies or contractors to do these cross-country deliveries, and in our case there was a wait of a week or two — I forget — while our stuff made its way west.) There is very limited street parking in our West Coast destination city, and it tends to fill up by late morning or early afternoon and the city wouldn’t give me a permit to block off spots for the tractor trailer. Unfortunately, the guys who would be delivering weren’t committing to coming by in the morning, which meant they might not be able to park, which would increase the cost a couple of hundred dollars if they had to rent a truck to ferry the items over. This got a bit stressful for me at the time, but Amir intervened and asked them to do whatever they could to arrive here in the morning, and they did, and it all ended up working out fine in the end. But just be prepared for this possibility if you have a similar situation to mine which, admittedly, is probably uncommon. In the end, I definitely recommend Movers 201 and I’m going to use them again in a couple of months for another cross-country move, this time heading back east. (Now, I’ve just got to stop doing these cross-country moves!)
