I rate People-Move Moving an "F" for failure and I WARN anyone attempting to utilize their moving services to NEVER USE THEM...PERIOD.
Terrence, the Owner and Operations Manager of People Move Moving, sent 2 Spanish speaking men to my house on 07/17/22. These men didnot speak English and the Lead Mover used a Google Translater to translate from Spanish to English and I talked into his phone in English to him which Google tranlated into Spanish. This time consumming language-barrier lasted the whole 8 hours moving time per our communication. This move was estimated by 6 other moving companies to take 2-3 hours. But Terrence, the Owner and Operations Manager of this company purposely expanded my move to "make more money to eight hours" instead of the previous moving companies " 3 hours of allotted time frame." And Terrence overpriced my moving amount to $1594.61 for a 2 bedroom apartment. Yet, my moving relocation was only 2 blocks or less down the street from my apartment to a Storage Company.
The movers couldn't read my English labeled boxes which meant I had to physically "touch each box", to show them and explain "fragile" and "food" labeled boxes to them so that the movers put the fragile and food boxes to the " top of the stacked boxes" within the Storage to increase moving spaces within the Storage. But, the movers rushed and put the furniture, boxes, and items in the Storage totally disorganized, not stacked on top, and left a "hot mess" within my Storage. And because of the language barrier the movers loaded wrong things.
This language barrier consumed at east 2-3 hours of my paid moving time because they didn't speak or read English. One of the workers Miguel, was a workaholic and the other one, Ryan was lazy, procrastinating, talking on the phone with his mom while walking slowly moving from room to room acting like he didn't know what he was doing. I called Terrence several times, complaining about the language barrier, the lazy worker, inexperienced workers, and the disorganization of the move which really "stressed me out." I asked for a discount or a price reduction due to his inexperienced, lazy worker, and due to the language barrier, But Terrence, the Owner of People-Move Moving was a "hard nosed" "money hungry" overpriced, pompous, cocky, rude, Operations Manager. Terrence refused to discount his price and when we got to Storage Building he refused to let his men unload the truck until I paid another $1025. Then Terrence sent another guy who saw how upset and stressed out I was until he helped to unload the truck.
I am 67 yrs. old with Arthritis and I walked up and down 19 steps consistently moving my own furniture items to expedite time and to save myself money. Yet, after paying total of $1592.61 for an 8 hour move that should have been 3 hours, People Move Moving left rooms of furniture, boxes, and items in my apartment after I paid them. I walked through my apartment and took several pictures of the remainder items that they refused to load unless I paid them for another 2 hour window which was another $300. I refused since the lazy guy wasn't performing his job responsibilities and due to the language barrier in communication with his movers.
I had a treadmill that Terrence said would be another $150 for the movers to move. I complained after all of the Google Translator conversations for 8 hours with his Spanish speaking men that he should move my Treadmill for FREE as a courtesy to me. Terrence refused to negate the charge. Later, I called him back to complain about his lazy worker, Ryan, and then Terrence refused to allow the movers to load my Treadmill to their truck. Because Terrence refused to load my Treadmill, I had to pay Schellers Treadmill Service an extra $125 to dissemble my Treadmill. I also paid another moving company to come out two more times on 07/18/22 and 07/21/22 of this week to move the remainder items. I again removed with the help of another guy the breakable plant stands and flower arrangements from my apartment and transported them to the Storage .
To reiterate, I walked up and down the nineteen steps with Arthritis removing many, many,items myself to clear out my condo-apartment during and after paying People Move Moving $1592.61. This was the most stressful, horrendous, disorganized, non-cooperative,inexerienced, move of my life.
Please, I am telling the...Truth... Donot Use People-Move Moving. I checked Google ratings and I was informed that the reviews can be paid reviews. But, afterwards, I checked The Better Business Bureau Reports about this company and yes, they have several negative reviews for overcharging customers with their more expensive rates than other companies, and they leave furniture in people's homes after they have been paid. One of the workers asked me what I paid and I told him. He stated, People Move Moving " overcharges their customers too much money" and they pay himself, their workers only $18/hr. read more